rear wiper dramas

[ditts]

The rear wiper on my wagon is not returning to the correct position when turned off or on the intermittent setting. It stops at random spots. The only way to get it to stop in the correct spot is to run the wiper and try to turn it of at the exact point when the wiper is in the right spot. Any thoughts?
Its not the motor getting lazy and the blade arm is secured tight to the threaded mount

[cruisn]

I hate rear wipers....

Remove FTW!

[rooby]

I'm a fan of the rear wiper.
It's one of the thing at annoys me about moving to a sedan.

[cruisn]

My previous Commonwhore.....

before....



after....



No photoshop. Wiper removed and hole welded, tailgate resprayed.

[Dropz]

looks clean without but they are useful at times

It sounds to me like a wire in the tailgate - common problem for gen4 wagons. They break where they feed from the body to the tailgate, check the wires on both sides, they are in rubber grommets. remove the grommet at each end and gently pull on the wires until you find a broken one, or check continuity at each end of the grommet/ check for power source/ ground for each wire.

[ditts]

looks clean without but they are useful at times

It sounds to me like a wire in the tailgate - common problem for gen4 wagons. They break where they feed from the body to the tailgate, check the wires on both sides, they are in rubber grommets. remove the grommet at each end and gently pull on the wires until you find a broken one, or check continuity at each end of the grommet/ check for power source/ ground for each wire.

cheers dropz i pull the fluke out tomoz and have a poke around

[ditts]

You picked it dropz broken blue/white wire inside right hand rubber boot
all sorted now

[Dropz]

Good to hear

[specky_B]

Had the same problem, Blue and white was broken, green with yellow dots broken and a black earth wire was starting to.
Rear right brake globe kept blowing latley too, may be the earth wire contributing to that.