300TDI Disco - at the bottom of the jobs list.............

Apologies if the motor and its location is completely unlike that on a Classic RR but, in case it is, here is my two penny worth: the self park switch is a frightful contrivance involving contacts on a gear within the motor housing and matching spring fingers. The trailing edge of the contact on my screen wiper motor had worn such that the park position was gradually creeping up the screen. After removing the bonnet and wiper arms and decker panel I was able to examine the motor and 'persuade' the contact on the gear to work for a little while longer (I can't remember how). The grief of getting the motor out was such that when it started playing up again I replaced it and the arm linkage. The motor and linkage from Autopost was about twice the price of a motor from a breakers. I reckoned that a new motor was money well spent because of the unknown provenance of one from a breakers. But I had to pay £25 for a loom adaptor 'cos the motor had been superseded.

So, if the parking switch plays up on my current RR I will not hesitate to replace the wiper motor.

HTH

Richard

Just done mine on the same vehicle. About £105 from Beamends, easy fit job. The park switch appears to be contained within the sealed motor body and I reckon you'd need an angle grinder tp get into it. Putting it back together is a little more tricky..... The Beamends unit is the the whole motor, backplate and linkage arms which simply bolts into place. TonyB

|| This was a known "opportunity"

:-)

Another victim of 1990s management training? (As in don't say problem, say challenge...)

Aye - my fave is: "insurmountable opportunity" :)

the ever popular " management meeting to discuss why there isn't time to do other tasks "

Derek

The quotes imply tongue in cheek, although there is probably a more appropriate emoticon ;-)) The best I ever heard, when faced with an impossible challege, was that we would use "creative resource management". Alas poor "C", now pushing up the dasies for all his trouble. Cheers Graham

Richard, Tony I sort of suspected that this may be the case, just wanted a bit of independent confirmation before getting to grips with it. Cheers Graham

On or around Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:52:08 +0000, Graham Bowers enlightened us thusly:

I'd have thought replacing the driver's side door mirror was "bottom". We're all spoiled these days, I remember when you had to turn the wipers off at the right moment for them to be parked appropriately.

the most annoying bit is that the way the intermittent wipe works means that the self-park fault affects that too. If the intermittent relay supplied power for a bit longer, so that it covered most of one wipe cycle, it'd not depend on the self-park working.

I one went to a meeting to discuss how many meeting we were having.......

RichardB

Rich did you ever see the" management speaks crap" bingo card it works well if you hand a few out theatrically pre-meeting, then again not if participants take it as a challenge to fit in the buzzwords

This is the one:

At the moment it isn't even on the list............ Until I need the blu-tac for sticking something more important :-)) Cheers Graham