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Hello,
I have a 2013 Mk7 Ford Transit, about 90k miles.
Today the wipers started playing up.
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Normally a little touch down on the stick puts them on for one swish, up one for intermittent, up again for full and up again for very fast. Intermittent has a speed controller which varies the gaps. Using the washer causes the wipers to swish half a dozen times.
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Today a little touch down moves them for as long as I hold it down, need to judge it right to get them to stop in the right place again. Any of the other settings are just on. When I use the washer they come on and stay on and I have to press down to get them to stop.
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The fuses are all fine. Same problem on both wipers so probably not a motor.
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Would I be right in thinking it would be the control switch or is there anything else it could be, is there a computer in the system anywhere which could have gone doolally? Youtube how-tos show the control switches are a doddle to change but new ones are around £60 so I want to eliminate anything else before I buy it. Could it be anything else and if so how would I check whatever else it could be?
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Thanks
Your full stops are going to give me nightmares.
Same problem on both wipers so probably not a motor
There's only one motor your wipers are linkage driven.
The stop switch in the motor sounds broken. = Wipers don't know where they are
Definitely sounds like the position switch in the motor/mechanism has gone. Usually a new wiper motor as they're usually integrated inside them now.
There’s only one motor your wipers are linkage driven.
Depends on the year. Not sure when they changed, but later models have two motors linked via the LIN bus.
Stalk switches send signal to the SCCM (Steering column control module) and that outputs a LIN (local interconnect network) bus data signal to primary motor on the drivers side to activate wipers. LIN bus signal from primary motor activates secondary motor.
Connection at the primary motor is prone to corroding - the tiny data bus pins disintegrate.
You'll need a scan tool if yours has the two motor system.
Sorry Bear, typing on my telephone is rubbish.
Thanks all, will have a check this evening. A motor is cheaper than a stalk so if it's a single motor I'll swap that out first. I have a code reader so if there's two I'll have a look at that and see what's going on.
custom has 2 motors, fairly certain my old mk7 only had one.
my custom had the connection problem mentioned above at just over 3 years old, luckily ford still did it under warrenty. that caused the wipers to do all sort of strange things randomly.
It was the motor, thanks everyone.
Got one off ebay for twenty quid, changed it in ten mins and all sorted