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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 10:48 PM
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Like the title says. Windshield wipers won't turn off. Started to rain really hard for the past few days. Used the wipers alot. Thats when the problem started. Had to pull the fuse.
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Old Nov 26, 2008 | 12:12 PM
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sounds like somethin electrical
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Old Dec 9, 2008 | 08:59 PM
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did you ever figure out the problem?
I have a similar intermittent problem... when i turn the wipers off it doesn't return to "home", it goes all the way up and stops there. eventually i got it to go back to normal by playing with the turn signal indicator, going from fast to slow to delay repeatedly.
Any ideas anyone??
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Old Dec 9, 2008 | 11:29 PM
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Have not had time to play with it. Another think i should ad. If the wipers stop. It will start by itself when I accelerate. It will stop once in a while. But as soon as I hit the gas ...it starts again.
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Old Dec 10, 2008 | 09:31 AM
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There is probably an electrical short on the control board. I'm not positive, but on *most* cars with intermittent wipers, the control board is under the hood on the driver's side, underneath a plastic cover attached to the wiper motor. A replacement motor *should* come with it attached (I don't know if the board is available by itself though). I haven't had to change one in an F body, but on two different cars previously I had this happen. The first time I just kept pulling the fuse and putting it back it, until it shorted all the way out - then you better have the Rain-X handy, because you now have NO wipers.
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Old Dec 10, 2008 | 10:07 AM
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Most likely a short to power... The power side of the circuit is probably grounding out somewhere before the switch that controls when they should be on and off... So now it's just a constant power circuit. Print out a wiring diagram, and find someone with a DMM.
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Probably. Switch issue is possible as well.
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