Hello,
I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was told there was a ?Switch?. Can anyone advise?
chunkabc
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18 years ago
Windsceen Wipers
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18 years ago
More usually it's a sign that the wiper motor is on it's last legs or the mechanism needs a spot of lubrication.
Chris
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18 years ago
I know this seems illogical, but just check the fuse. On some vehicles the wipers do exactly this if the wiper fuse blows.
Rob Graham
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18 years ago
Assuming the wipers park properly in normal use, the constant live feed to the motor isn't working.
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18 years ago
The intermittent unit on my SD1 simply gives a short pulse to the wiper motor and relies on the self parking action for the rest of the sweep.
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18 years ago
Then how would they park properly ? Without a constant feed, they will stop wherever they are when switched off. As Dave P has suggested, the most likely way that intermittent wiping operates is via a short pulse to the switched side - long enough to move the motor to a point where it's self-parking mechanism takes over to complete a single sweep.
Of course, that doesn't preclude a designer coming up with something far more fiendish and prone to peculiar failure modes...