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onthames
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Fri May 21, 2021 9:10 pm

Right, so I lifted the wipers up and tried them and they work, motors shafts etc all fine, but when they get to their finish position after the wash cycle and i flip the wipers back onto the lights they dont seem to sit right and dont move when I activate the wash when on the lights.
I tried moving them manually but they wont budge.
from the image below you can see the angle is off compared to how it should be, I think. Any ideas?
Image of mine:
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image of how it should be:
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biffer
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Sat May 22, 2021 1:46 pm

If you were to mix up the motors so that the N/S motor was where the O/S one should be that would cause your problem- but one motor has 3 wires and the other 4 wires so i can't see how that could happen
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Sat May 22, 2021 2:49 pm

biffer wrote:
Sat May 22, 2021 1:46 pm
If you were to mix up the motors so that the N/S motor was where the O/S one should be that would cause your problem- but one motor has 3 wires and the other 4 wires so i can't see how that could happen
3 wires for n/s, correct?
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biffer
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Sat May 22, 2021 4:38 pm

erm, i think so- O/S (R) should have an extra blue wire, N/S (L)should just have red/black/brown
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Sun May 23, 2021 11:10 am

Fixed, cheers biffer
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