Re: windshieldwiper irony

["ksgrimsr" <knut.s.grimsrud@xxxx>]

I had wiper troubles a little while back. In Oregon, a wiper failure 
pretty much renders a car undriveable, so for me this was a priority 
item.

In my particular case the problem was the wiper relay. It is not 
very clear from the service manuals where the wiper relay is 
actually located, but getting to it is pretty straightforward. 
Getting at the wiper module and also gives you access to all the 
correct electrical junctions to determine whether the right signals 
are coming from the steering column wiper switch and whether the 
right signals are being sent to the wiper motors, so you can debug 
the problem.

The wiper relay is mounted on a little circuitboard along with the 
buzzer box. The circuitboard is clipped in place to the steering 
column bracket and is actually above the steering column. I think I 
wrote a little procedure on this a while back, but it goes something 
like this:
1) Remove the air duct hose that leads to the driver's door vent. 
You have to remove the plastic door vent trim first and then the 
hose can be removed.
2) Remove the plastic air duct feeding the air duct hose you just 
removed.
3) Laying on your back in the footwell, pull the circuitboard 
holding the relay and buzzer box free of its mount. It it just 
clipped in place and will pull free.

Knut



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jordan rubin <nuttenschleuder@xxxx> 
wrote:
<snip>
> ... I have noticed several times that in the rain the
> wipers stop working, or fail to turn on.