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1998 Blazer wiper module fix discovery

I have a 1998 Blazer that exhibits the common intermittent windshield wiper problem. I attempted to do the

repair on the circuit board connector/solder joints. All instructions I have seen for this repair state that

only three #15 torx screws need to be removed and the module cover will come off.

I removed the three visible screws and my cover simply would not come off. So by using a small dental mirror,

a flash light and a lot of contortions, I discovered that my 1998 Blazer cover has FOUR screws. It is almost

impossible to align the torx driver/ratchet with the screw and if I could get it out it would be impossible to

get it back in place after the repair was made. It looks like the only way to get at this fourth screw is to

remove the ABS unit. That could easily be a disaster.

I always wondered why the 1998 and 1999 Blazers were not covered by this recall. Up to 1997 and again starting

with 2000 this recall was honored. I suspect that the 1998 and 1999 models have four screws in the cover and

repairing/replacing them would be too expensive. I also don't understand why GM didn't just correct the

original problem instead of coming up with these Mickey Mouse fixes.

If GM wants to know why the Japanese manufacturers are kicking their butts they need look no further than the

Blazer situation and while they are at it, why don't they move the fuel filter under the hood where Subaru has

their's.

A.J.

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AJay
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I had a 95 blazer and the wipers woulld quit only when I used them. How convienient..

I got rid of it because that wasn't the only problem. It also had problems with the anti-'stop' brakes. They recalled the brakes several times and it still didn't fix em. I wish I could have recaled my payments ..! I now drive a Toyota after buying GM for many years.

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Charles Pisano

I guess I was right, in my responce to your other post, I would be happy to buy you a one way tourist class ticket so you can move to Japan.

Whitelightning

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Whitelightning

Japan or Kentucky where I think they are made as well as several other places in North 'merica. Wonder how many parts of your chevy is made in foreign countrys???

duh..

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Charles Pisano

I know the 87, and the 91 S-10's are 90% made here. I know the entire drive train on the 2003 was manufactured in Tonawanda NY, and the car assembled in Lordstown Ohio.. I know the money from the sale of all three stayed right here in the USA. I know the workers who made them made w/bennies $55 an hour, and the workers in the right to work states where the ricers like to build their plants for that very reason only made w/bennies $42 an hour. I know when the seaports were locked down on the west coast because the owners didnt want to pay the intermodel truckers more money, Toyota and Honda and the rest of the ricers were on the verge of closing their assembly lines for lack of parts and looking at bringing them in through Mexico, yet GM had no problems. Before you start spouting off about the ricers buying parts here, yes they are , from the same manufactures they were buying them from in Japan who have opened up plants here, this acording to an economics study done by Indiana University. And the only reason the ricers started building here in the first place was to get around VERs. Its also the reason Acura came to be, and Lexus, and Infinity.

Whitelightning

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Whitelightning

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