Re: No wipers when it's cold?

["dherv10" <dherv10@xxxx>]

Just my 2 cents, I don't make a lot of comments on the mechanical 
side of the car, But since it involes electrical I will do so. First 
the motors get worn and a little sloppy and if you ever look in one 
you will know what I mean. Grey gooy gunk. When this hardens in cold 
weather the magnetic motor will have a hard time running due to the 
rotor being off center.I have taken them apart and cleaned them out 
and relubricated them with a light grease that won't freez up in the 
cold, but at best it's temporary. If the motor and gears arn't to 
expensive, then I would replace the unit. If worst comes to worst we 
can replace the bearings. but you can't take away the wear on the 
gears.
John Hervey
www.Special T auto.com
Home of where did all the cowboys Go.


--- In mcnews@xxxx, deloreanernst@xxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 12/4/01 9:04:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> weader@xxxx writes:
> 
> 
> 
> > When I first start the car in the morning and all the systems
> > are cold, my wipers don't work. After about 10 minutes, when the 
car has
> > heated up and the interior has heated up, they start working 
again.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Happened to me once recently, following a brief grinding noise, but 
later I 
> flipped them on without thinking and they worked fine. I posted a 
query here 
> but no luck. Can't tell you the cure yet, but I can after I get vin 
11174 
> back from Rob where I'm having some minor glitches looked into 
besides my 
> manifolds.
> -Wayne A. Ernst
> DMCTech Group
> 
> 
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