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I just finished fixing a problem with my wipers today… over the course of about a month they would not park… then the intermittent setting stopped working and finally this week they stopped working altogether unless held manually slightly beyond the fastest setting. Below is what I did today that has them working correctly now on all settings.
-Take off the end cap of the combination switch by prying it out with a very small flat screwdriver blade (held on by two tabs – front and back)
-Remove the washer fluid contact piece (white plastic with a small spring and contact disk) and the large spring.
-Push the body of the combination switch handle down the stalk, to expose the workings of the switch’s wiper functions.
-There is a white colored plastic piece at the end of the switch. Remove this (pry off front and back – two tabs) with a very small flat screwdriver blade.
-There are two contacts (for the washer fluid activation mechanism) that come out of the stalk and bend toward the center. They keep you from easily removing the small barrel that activates the various wiper settings. Bend these gently back to remove the barrel.
-The barrel has a pin through the front to connect it into the handle and two contacts that also pass through the barrel to make contact on each side… In my case the front of these two contacts had bent out of shape slowly on one side until it no longer made contact with its circuit (unless pushed out of the switch’s range)…
I bent the offending contact back into shape cleaned up the others as best I could and coated them with Dielectric grease… reassembled everything and… Viola I have my wipers back.
Hope this helps.
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