Windscreen wipers out of sync.

[letsturboit]

Hi all. Had the wipers off recently to fix the washer bottle pump and since refitting the drivers side developed a squeak. (New blades at Same time)

After about a week the drivers side wiper suddenly stopped and the pass side get carried on and the wipers became out of sync. The drivers sides stuck to the screen about one third of the way through its motion.

Has any one experienced this before? I've got a decent drive to a new job tomorrow, and they've given out snow and showers and it's in the middle of nowhere besides Carrsington water...

 

[bloke]

just arms off or whole thing?

 

[letsturboit]

Just arms. Left everything else inplace bar the electrical connection close to washer bottle.

 

[White16valver]

All the bolts etc done up correctly / not too tight?

 

[bloke]

Check your nuts on the drivers side!!!!

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Mine packed up a few weeks ago . Only the passenger side worked. The ball joint furthest right ( passenger side ) had worn out. Replaced it with a 2nd hand unit and it's been fine ever since .

 

[Darren S]

Check your nuts on the drivers side!!!!

Yep - mine did this - I got distracted when my wiper mechanism was last out and only finger-tightened one of the bolts. Stopped sweeping while doing about 50mph on the carriageway in the rain....

Easy fix - also make sure that your mechanism slides onto the mounting peg at the back of the bulkhead - or else they never sweep properly and you get a lot of excess motor/linkage noise.

 

[STEVE.M]

Yep - mine did this - I got distracted when my wiper mechanism was last out and only finger-tightened one of the bolts. Stopped sweeping while doing about 50mph on the carriageway in the rain....

Easy fix - also make sure that your mechanism slides onto the mounting peg at the back of the bulkhead - or else they never sweep properly and you get a lot of excess motor/linkage noise.

As he has a non sport PH1, there was no necessity to remove the wiper motor assembly to access the single top mounted windscreen washer pump.

Should have included that information at the start of the thread though.

 

[letsturboit]

Thanks for the responses. I'll look into it. Cheers all.

 

[letsturboit]

All fixed. Thank you gentlemen. ?

 

[White16valver]

All fixed. Thank you gentlemen. ?

What was the fix?!

 

[letsturboit]

One of the nuts had worked loose. Haha.