Alan Surrey
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I would value advice/guidance from anyone with first hand experience of this.
When I turned on my windscreen wipers today they did not move, but there was a bang and for a moment, while I rushed to turn them off with the column stalk, there was a whirring/clicking sound as if the motor was turning. The wipers can now be freely moved by hand across the windscreen. They move as a matched pair - just as they should. Its just that they shouldn't move at all unless its the motor that's moving them.
We have a lot of trees round here and this time of year they drop a lot of sticky, sugary liquid. I think my wiper blades had become glued to the windscreen and that when I turned them on the motor produced a lot of (stall) torque and broke a mechanical linkage somewhere.
Where should I start?.
When I turned on my windscreen wipers today they did not move, but there was a bang and for a moment, while I rushed to turn them off with the column stalk, there was a whirring/clicking sound as if the motor was turning. The wipers can now be freely moved by hand across the windscreen. They move as a matched pair - just as they should. Its just that they shouldn't move at all unless its the motor that's moving them.
We have a lot of trees round here and this time of year they drop a lot of sticky, sugary liquid. I think my wiper blades had become glued to the windscreen and that when I turned them on the motor produced a lot of (stall) torque and broke a mechanical linkage somewhere.
Where should I start?.