not much help but I used Rainx when my wipers cut out

 

Did you ever fix them?

 

are they frozen

 

Definitely not, they were working fine then they just quit almost like it blew a fuse.

 

This happened to me the day I bought it.
I took off the cowl panel in front of the windshield. The wiper motor is under there. Turns out the plug was loose. I unplugged it and plugged back in and all was fine. (this was of course after I checked the fuses were OK).

You would have to take this panel off anyway to replace the wiper motor if thats whats wrong with it.

 

it could be a bunch of different things, anything from a dead motor to a simple bad connection. not trying to be funny, but this always seem to happen when it rains cuz its the only time you use your wipers.

 

Well I got the motor out today....cant really tell if its shot or not but I think I will replace it and hope for the best. Is there any way to get the part number for this so I can do some shopping around?
Napa wanted 223.00 for a motor!
Canadian tire wants 130 but wont have it in stock for a few weeks......

 

Forget that! I ordered one off of eBay from a company called Rubicon Recyclers when mine bit the dust (One of the magnet sections literally disintegrated). It cost me $60, shipped to my doorstep.

 

Mine started to move really slow for a couple of swipes and then stopped. I also checked the fuse and found it OK. I pulled the cover off and everything seemed to be connected. So I did what my dad always did, I hit it with a hammer. It took right off at full speed and has been working fine for the past several months. Now I'll just see how long it lasts.

 

NICE!!! I might try that, Mine has been acting up.. not working at first but if I leave them turned on they will start working, working sluggish so I bet the motor is going. Murrays auto parts has a reman motor or $69 or $130 new, Cardon brand I think, made in france... better then China but still not USA.

 

do not buy a new motor without taking the motor apart and cleaning it out
took mine apart the cap had no magnitization cleaned out all the black crude out and drown it with contact cleaner put it back together and it works fine now

 

Not a bad Idea, Mine seems to work find until drops below freezing and then it still works but it is slow and takes a min to start working. I'll clean it this weekend.

 

I took it apart and noticed the magnet was broken off at the edge I have a felling it might have broken and jammed it. Il try it tomorrow and see if it works....Thanks guys

 

That seemed to fix it....save some money on that one

 

WHAT seemed to fix it? I'm going to go out and play with my wipers now.

edit: I took off the cowl and don;t know what to remove. Is it possible to remove just the motor without removing the entire assembly?

 

mine did the same thing so i took the motor apart and one of the magnets came off the inside so i guled it back on and it works fine now

 

should I bump this or start my own thread?

 

if i remember its on the driver side.....you can pull the motor out seperate from the entire wiper arm assemblies.....they have a rubber boot type thing over it. i actually discovered that the rubber boot had been holding moisture in all the time....which rusted the motor up really badly....which i belive to have been creating a "heat soak" type situation. If i let turned the motor on it would run for shorter periods of time (over about 2 months) and the longer i had them on the slower they would go until they would stop....replaced the motor and haven't had a single problem