Thread: Rear wiper died
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Old May 6th, 2020, 16:20   #15
Calstu
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Originally Posted by TLPower View Post
@calstu, I also bought an Ebay replacement unit with the same consequences. I pulled all the loom out to the motor and removed all the tape hoping to find a short, none was found. After much head scratching I checked the continuity on the plug on the new wiper and it had a dead short. Consequently I stripped the original, freed off the spindle, cleaned the brushes, the commutator and it now works fine.

I couldn't be bothered to get a refund for the new one, I dare say I'll strip it at some point.
Thanks for that. I'd been desperately trying to avoid having to strip the panels to inspect the loom. I've checked continuity across the connector pins of the replacement motor and I only get it between the outer pins (Live for normal/intermittent?) and not to the centre pin and the original motor is the same. Is this the same short you had?
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