windscreen wipers going really slow

[boomhauwer]

Or might be your fuse is near to popping?

Could be worth changing it just to see

or it pops, or it doesn't... there is no such thing of fuse near to pop...

 

[thomasa]

Replaced wiper + motor today
Got from scrappy on net - off an 07 ibiza - £36 - motor + mech
Ps - very very difficult without puller - £8 machinemart - few choices

Couple of photos

Use puller to take blades off - 2 X 13mm bolts

Scuttle panel removed

2 x 10mm bolts to remove
3 hex key holding A plate

Annoying to get electric clip off but small stubby driver does it

Motor + mech out

My old mech

In my case the bottom left spindle in the picture had completly seized and would not move.

New in
Requires bit of fiddling but not that hard
New one in

Put scuttle panel back
Put blades back - roughly

Working perfect now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Anyone needs help advice let me know
tom

 

[polk]

▪ Drive out the spindle

This is the problem... In trying to drive out the seized spindle, i managed to mushroom the thread. The spindle hardly moved. (yes, I did remove the circlip and washer first...)

The spindle at the other end, which spins freely, is almost as hard to drive out of place. I have a salvaged replacement, and it seems a good idea to dismantle and grease it up, but I know what's going to happen!

This seems to be a problem common to many cars, but i have yet to find a good guide to pounding the end of a metal spindle with furious anger without trashing it.

Any ideas?

 

[Toby Davis]

Had this problem a month back, with help from my dad i held it, while he placed a chizel against it and slowly hammered it out, then i sanded of the rust, greased it up and put back togother, wipers work realy well now, before they where stopping often.

Taked a bit of time and effort but it will slowly start to edge out, dad was very brutal to get it to start moving

good luck

 

[polk]

Toby thanks for the encouragement, but how did you avoid bending or squashing the end of the spindle as you pounded it?

 

[Toby Davis]

You should know, i am a right novice at this sort of stuff and could not of done it without my dads help, as he is a engineer by trade and good at this sort of stuff and knew what to do.

As said i held it and ensured it didnt knock against anything when it was hit, my dad just kept hiting the top end of the spindle in single controled blows, took him a good 5 minutes of hiting to get it out. YOur need someone to help you, and idealy someone with a good amount of strength, stamina and accuracy when using a hammer, or you could put it in a vice, so it cat move at all and have a go yourself

 

[nedge2k]

This is the problem... In trying to drive out the seized spindle, i managed to mushroom the thread. The spindle hardly moved. (yes, I did remove the circlip and washer first...)

The spindle at the other end, which spins freely, is almost as hard to drive out of place. I have a salvaged replacement, and it seems a good idea to dismantle and grease it up, but I know what's going to happen!

This seems to be a problem common to many cars, but i have yet to find a good guide to pounding the end of a metal spindle with furious anger without trashing it.

Any ideas?

TBH, I wouldn't waste your time, just get one off another car. In trying to get my seized spindle out (held in a vice, tapping with a centre punch), the casing disintegrated. It got more seized the more I tapped it out - leaving me without any wipers for a couple days!

 

[X_Lollypop_X]

urgh bad times, mine started going slow today! last thing i need! worth takin it to a garage or asking someone to have a fiddle?

J
xx

 

[vroomtshh]

For info - I cba taking everything off so I gave mine a squirt of plus gas, ran them on high for 5 minutes, then gave it a squirt of white grease. Sorted them up a treat. I don't expect it to be a permanent cure but it only took 5 minutes to do

 

[X_Lollypop_X]

possibly was something to do with the heat? once it started raining then they were fine :S

J
xx

 

[Slimy]

I've recently had to do mine, it's not just Ibiza's as those pictures look just like my Toledo linkage. I too had very slow wipers, and it turned out to be a seized spindle. I have no idea how much torque is in that motor, but I couldn't budge it at all!! It is quite possible that heat has something to do with it, particularly because there are two brass bushes in each spindle housing, and if memory serves brass is very sensitive to temperature.

In the end I did the same as Polk, by the time it had come out the threaded end was destroyed. I got an entire new linkage off Ebay for a tenner and replaced the whole thing. The wipers are super fast now, I reckon they had been tight ever since I bought the car and I'd just not realised. They're as fast on the normal setting now as they were on the highest setting before.