No intermittant wipe
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:01 pm
Decided to remove the wiper motor as it has started making a clicking sound on the up movement, and also to clean out the drain holes.
After stripping the mechanism, greasing, putting it all back together I set about testing the system without the arms for its parking position.
I decided it would be ideal to set intermittent and watch the rotation of the spindles, no intermittent wipe, but ok with normal fast and single sweep.
I decided I must have somehow spiked the electronic delay module as no joy at all with intermittent and resigned myself to a car with no intermittent wipe.
The following day I searched the web for Polo 9n loss of intermittent wipe and found a post explaining that VW design the wipe system to isolate the intermittent wipe when the bonnet is up
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I can confirm that this post was right. My intermittent wipe does in fact work with the bonnet down and the clicking sound has gone.
After stripping the mechanism, greasing, putting it all back together I set about testing the system without the arms for its parking position.
I decided it would be ideal to set intermittent and watch the rotation of the spindles, no intermittent wipe, but ok with normal fast and single sweep.
I decided I must have somehow spiked the electronic delay module as no joy at all with intermittent and resigned myself to a car with no intermittent wipe.
The following day I searched the web for Polo 9n loss of intermittent wipe and found a post explaining that VW design the wipe system to isolate the intermittent wipe when the bonnet is up
. I can confirm that this post was right. My intermittent wipe does in fact work with the bonnet down and the clicking sound has gone.