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grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4796

Wipers

Today I noticed my wipers weren't working as they should. Intermittent is working fine, as is normal and fast speed. When you nudge the stalk up for a single wipe, the wipers stop when you release the stalk, same when you turn off normal speed. When I turn off intermittent they park normally. My initial thought was that the park switch had failed but intermittent is still working correctly. unless there are two park stitches? 2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
1990 Vogue SE
Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200
Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html
Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html
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2nd Mar 2014 4:20pm

Maxxed_Ross

Member Since: 06 Jun 2012
Location: Bathgate / North Sea
Posts: 340

there's only the one switch, so that is a little strange. Faulty stalk?

2nd Mar 2014 4:33pm

mk1collector

Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 6772

Try spraying grease down the front of the wiper spindle (from outside) as the wheel boxes may be seizing.

2nd Mar 2014 4:44pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4796

Definitely not seized, new wiper boxes and cable put on a few months ago. They aren't slow at all, just don't park themselves unless on intermittent

2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
1990 Vogue SE
Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200
Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html
Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html
RRC Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54492.html
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/george_grafton

2nd Mar 2014 11:36pm

chopcat

Member Since: 11 Sep 2012
Location: Pembrokeshire
Posts: 412

Swapping the wiper motor is pretty quick so i would do that first.

There is a swict in the motor that senses the parking position . when i had to bang on the windscreen to get the wipers moving i knew it was time to change the motor.

Cc

3rd Mar 2014 7:00am

mk1collector

Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 6772

grafty99 wrote:
Definitely not seized, new wiper boxes and cable put on a few months ago. They aren't slow at all, just don't park themselves unless on intermittent

Did you use genuine wheel boxes? I didn't at first and they lasted two weeks so replaced everything with genuine and no problems since.

3rd Mar 2014 9:09am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17621

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

Most likely park switch and just coincidence that the intermiitent is turning them off in the parked position.

There's not much else it can be.

3rd Mar 2014 10:22am

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4796

Genuine wheel boxes yes, changing the motor seems pretty extreme to me, I'll start with the cheapest thing and work my way up I think

3rd Mar 2014 5:36pm

jimbob7

Member Since: 06 Jul 2013
Location: uk
Posts: 2055

I'd say park switch, when it went on mine it was entirely random as to whether anything worked or not. Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.

3rd Mar 2014 11:05pm

landy andy

Member Since: 15 Feb 2009
Location: Ware, Herts
Posts: 5822

2006 Defender 110 Td5 USW Zermatt Silver

On my Td5 I had a similar issue that they would park on intermittent, but not on wipe. So thought it could not be park switch, tried new stalk, new relay, no good. Then they stopped parking at all, new park switch, all good.

Andy

3rd Mar 2014 11:16pm

Little Tom

Member Since: 20 Aug 2013
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 134

Exactly same happened to mine about 2 months ago and it was the park switch, what you will probably find is that the intermitent will fail soon also. Michael was just telling me a story about a friend of his who slept with a land rover, lonely nights in the desert..

4th Mar 2014 9:27am

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4796

I have been too busy to sort anything yet but was the park switch available from Landrover or did anyone have to buy one off the internet?

I'd rather get a genuine switch if possible

4th Mar 2014 5:02pm

jimbob7

Member Since: 06 Jul 2013
Location: uk
Posts: 2055

I bought genuine,£25 ish (ferra pack of ten,

lol)from Landrover. Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.

4th Mar 2014 10:42pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4796

Have any left that you want to sell me?

4th Mar 2014 10:53pm

jimbob7

Member Since: 06 Jul 2013
Location: uk
Posts: 2055

/\/\/\ lol, I was being sarcastic bud, coz it's a frequent failure and should be considered a service items,like many other things,eg. cylinder heads, ABS pumps and chassis's.

Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.

5th Mar 2014 8:26am

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