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    Defender '96 wiper park switch

    I bought this vehicle about four years ago. Its wiper intermittent setting worked. I thought to myself 'Gee these Landrover engineers and designers have come a long way'.
    This 'thing' is my first Defender. I have had previously no less than forty four (44) series vehicles s.ones s.twos s.three, several stage ones and 110s. I am not precious.

    Some two or three months after a road side impulse to buy this worn Defender 130 the wiper intermittent stopped working. It's a small thing.

    Three years later, My GF, well capable of listening to and driving appropriately the beautiful four cylinder Isuzu 3.9 turbo diesel that I fitted at great effort and expense - drives this 130 Vehicle with some level of skill and sympathy- commented that the wiper park setting 'doesn't work'... Struggles to manage the wipers while managing the cacophony coming from the engine and drive train- she loves that it is a capable 4WD - has watched it negotiate deep creeks and terrible terrain, carrying loads with ease and with driver care.
    She has respect.
    'Yes'...'I know the wipers don't park...' was my lame response to 'the wipers are not working properly'.

    So I go ahead and purchase a wiper park switch. Just for Shi!s & giggles I also purchase a VW type 99 wiper relay 'cause you know, when you do some research you find that our English colleagues have experienced L/R electrical issues long before many of us learned to use toilet paper. I guess they are entitled being the progenitors of 'Lucas'...

    So, to recap: the relay, the wiper park switch, the wiper-motor and spiral mechanism, the plastic park switch,- the column switch- all have been serviced or replaced with new parts.
    The wipers still refuse to park. I have no intermittent setting. Did I mention that I replaced the wiper switch first and foremost??. Let me state that I replaced all three items at different times and still no joy. Recent additional efforts have conferred frustration and annoyance.

    I guess that if I were a 'newbie' then the shear joy of owning a 'Defender' would counter the annoyance experienced of being a long time L/R driver- all forty four of them are remembered as special in their own way....excellent for what they were built for.

    After all of the love care and attention this delicate little darling 130 Defender has received, I'm now at a point of becoming impatient: I want a solution to this one damned issue. My Gf is well entitled to use the one small joy 'intermittent wipers' that these wretched things are designed to afford.

    I've been busy at this exact point of replacing all of the worn broken damaged and out of date issues before we take this on a another journey: LED dash lights, Raptor steel Binnacle and Mount, Convex external Mirrors, Exmoor full front interior floor & trans trim carpets, new trim lock assemblies and fir tree fasteners etc and bloody etc, new stainless M5 120mm fasteners for the dash vents to ensure they stay open at speed.... The old series cars didn't need this. A lot of effort has gone into this vehicle. I'm wondering if old British Leyland contraptions were superior build to these later Defenders...Comfort is a premium item in short supply......We try to keep what is there and improve on what we have got... We spend hours after hours in the car, radio is good but near useless. Still we persist.

    All said, the vehicle has earned its keep. They have so few amenities compared to other vehicles, when one valuable and treasured amenity is taken away and effort to retrieve it is unsuccessful, frustration and temper come into the picture.
    There I've said it..
    P!@#$%^d off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Svengali0 View Post
    I bought this vehicle about four years ago. Its wiper intermittent setting worked. I thought to myself 'Gee these Landrover engineers and designers have come a long way'.
    This 'thing' is my first Defender. I have had previously no less than forty four (44) series vehicles s.ones s.twos s.three, several stage ones and 110s. I am not precious.

    Some two or three months after a road side impulse to buy this worn Defender 130 the wiper intermittent stopped working. It's a small thing.

    Three years later, My GF, well capable of listening to and driving appropriately the beautiful four cylinder Isuzu 3.9 turbo diesel that I fitted at great effort and expense - drives this 130 Vehicle with some level of skill and sympathy- commented that the wiper park setting 'doesn't work'... Struggles to manage the wipers while managing the cacophony coming from the engine and drive train- she loves that it is a capable 4WD - has watched it negotiate deep creeks and terrible terrain, carrying loads with ease and with driver care.
    She has respect.
    'Yes'...'I know the wipers don't park...' was my lame response to 'the wipers are not working properly'.

    So I go ahead and purchase a wiper park switch. Just for Shi!s & giggles I also purchase a VW type 99 wiper relay 'cause you know, when you do some research you find that our English colleagues have experienced L/R electrical issues long before many of us learned to use toilet paper. I guess they are entitled being the progenitors of 'Lucas'...

    So, to recap: the relay, the wiper park switch, the wiper-motor and spiral mechanism, the plastic park switch,- the column switch- all have been serviced or replaced with new parts.
    The wipers still refuse to park. I have no intermittent setting. Did I mention that I replaced the wiper switch first and foremost??. Let me state that I replaced all three items at different times and still no joy. Recent additional efforts have conferred frustration and annoyance.

    I guess that if I were a 'newbie' then the shear joy of owning a 'Defender' would counter the annoyance experienced of being a long time L/R driver- all forty four of them are remembered as special in their own way....excellent for what they were built for.

    After all of the love care and attention this delicate little darling 130 Defender has received, I'm now at a point of becoming impatient: I want a solution to this one damned issue. My Gf is well entitled to use the one small joy 'intermittent wipers' that these wretched things are designed to afford.

    I've been busy at this exact point of replacing all of the worn broken damaged and out of date issues before we take this on a another journey: LED dash lights, Raptor steel Binnacle and Mount, Convex external Mirrors, Exmoor full front interior floor & trans trim carpets, new trim lock assemblies and fir tree fasteners etc and bloody etc, new stainless M5 120mm fasteners for the dash vents to ensure they stay open at speed.... The old series cars didn't need this. A lot of effort has gone into this vehicle. I'm wondering if old British Leyland contraptions were superior build to these later Defenders...Comfort is a premium item in short supply......We try to keep what is there and improve on what we have got... We spend hours after hours in the car, radio is good but near useless. Still we persist.

    All said, the vehicle has earned its keep. They have so few amenities compared to other vehicles, when one valuable and treasured amenity is taken away and effort to retrieve it is unsuccessful, frustration and temper come into the picture.
    There I've said it..
    P!@#$%^d off.
    Your being to kind to the bloody thing, just drive it like ya stole it.
    cheers
    blaze

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    Come on Svengali0

    I am waiting for Sierrafery to give the places to check.!

    My defender 130 96 the intermittent wipers are now quite variable in their intermitancy.

    They stop anywhere they like. I hope it is the park switch. But any clues welcome.

    While I'm talking electrical things on the Defender the prince of darkness has me screwed over fuse 2, 20amp blows all the time. Replace, test internal light, yep that works, horn yep that to. Then short drive, blown again. Been looking for the culprit for 4 years now.

    I checked the internal light and tidied up the wiring. Reran wire to the horn from the stalk, no change.

    Various wiring diagrams say various other things connected to fuse 2 radio cassette- replaced many many years ago and not used any more. But other than horn and interior light nothing else stops working?

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