'96 Defender wipers not self parking

**rijidij** · 13th February 2013, 04:42 PM

G'day all,
The wipers on my '96 Defender 130 wont self park, they just stop wherever they are when you turn them off. Also, the intermittant function doesn't work, they just keep wiping continuously without any delay.
Before I start pulling stuff apart, is this likely to be a problem with the relay (hopefully something simple like that) or is it more likely to be a problem with the contacts in the wiper motor or something else.

Hoping someone has tackled this problem before.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers, Murray

**goingbush** · 13th February 2013, 05:12 PM

its going to be the park switch, which clips to the side of the wiper motor,
bugger of a job,

When I did mine the little spring clip fell inside the wiper motor, %$@&%$

make sure you dont get Britpart or youll be doing the job twice.

**nick_e** · 13th February 2013, 05:59 PM

Not that hard is it?

I changed the whole motor on mine when it burnt out. From memory there are only a few screws holding the corner of the dash on at the passenger side.

It was a while ago but I don't think it scarred me.

**goingbush** · 13th February 2013, 06:38 PM

I should add that I did mine with the dash inplace, using a borescope & a double jointed arm & some bent pieces of wire up thru the speaker hole, would have been faster & easier to to pull the dash out.

**LowRanger** · 13th February 2013, 06:41 PM

Should be able to do it in less than 30 minutes

**justinc** · 13th February 2013, 07:48 PM

With underdash A/C add a little more

JC

**LowRanger** · 13th February 2013, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by justinc

With underdash A/C add a little more

JC

I have underdash A/C and had the wiper motor out and rotated the spindles and had the cable out and all back together in 30 minutes.Any longer and you are slacking

**justinc** · 13th February 2013, 08:22 PM

just call me 'captain slackbladder' then!

http://www.suslik.org/Humour/FilmOrT...der/ba4-4.html

JC

**mox** · 13th February 2013, 08:23 PM

Wiper self parking and intermittent function stopped working in my '97 build Defender 130 several years ago. Problem was in red relay thing under left side of fuse panel. It is still there minus cover. Recall something like the pivot on the relay contact came apart. Forgotten what I did to make wipers work. Probably bridged to bypass problem. Needs replacing to restore intermittent and park function. However, I have not been driving in the rain regularly enough for motivation to spend money on a replacement possible Joseph Lucas, Prince of Darkness type electronic device.

**goingbush** · 13th February 2013, 09:41 PM

if your going to replace the wiper relay do yourself a favour and buy a No 99 VW wiper relay, Direct plug & play - interchangeable for Defender.

infinitely adjustable intermittent timing facility added, just hold the wiper arm down for a second, let it up, then wait the amount of time you want between your wiper wipes (say 15 seconds) & press it down again, hey presto it will wipe every 15 seconds, and forever keeps that time in its memory until you repeat the cycle

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