silverbullet06 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Did a quick search on this and didn't find anything, so forgive me if this has been covered, Just turned 7k miles and noticed something interesting on my wipers. When I want to manually "sweep" the wipers (not sure of the proper term for this, maybe "mist"?), and I pull and release the stalk too fast, the wipers will only move a few inches and stop. No big deal, just pull the stalk again and they will do the rest of the sweep. However, there have been a few times when set to intermittent where it will do the sweep, but instead of stopping when they get back to the "rest" position, they will come back up a few inches like described above. Anyone else seen this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbacis Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Mine does the exact same thing, if I don't hold the level in quite long enough the wipers just move a couple inches and then stop. I've only had one occassion when then they didn't return to full stow position following a sweep. That was actually just a couple days ago. I don't get to use my wipers for much other than the occassional spray-clean or dew clearing, haven' t gotten much rain this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterJMC Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 I had that too, but I figured it was because of the snow on my windshield... but the odd thing is that there was nothing obstructing the sweep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoss Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Mine do this too, but only when I do a one wipe sweep....... Never on intermittant setting. A lot of cars I have driven do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fan42025 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Yeap, me too. Not sure if it's a design fault or bad quality control. Probably not worth worrying about unless it starts to happen all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallschirmjaeger Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 I noticed that my 05 LGT wagon does exactly the same thing if I do a quick pull on the wiper stalk. I've trained my finger to hold the stalk for a half count and it works perfectly. Dunno why it won't do a complete sweep with just the momentary pull. Oh well...it's nothing a little bit of muscle memory didn't cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbullet06 Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 Thanks, glad I'm not the only one. I'm not too worried about it happening on the manual sweep, but I'll have to keep an eye on the intermittent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechdiff Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I have that too on the pull of the stalk, it will stall on me and not do a full sweep. It doesn't bother me too much but does kind of make it feel cheap. I might ask the dealer if there is anything they can do to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windex Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Most wiper systems exhibit this condition. The park mechanism is a simple brass contact ring with a small gap in it. When you turn off the wipers, the contact ring will maintain power to the motor until the it rotates around to the gap, located at the park position. Once the contact hits the gap, power is removed entirely, and the motor stops. The gap can't be too big, or the wipers would be able to park in too large an area. Make the gap too small, and you risk having the contact jump the gap and go around for another sweep. So you make the gap just big enough so that it parks properly most of the time, but once in a while stops a little further into the gap, and parks a little higher. I would take periodic "high-parking" over continuous operation any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Mine does this, but so did my Camry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leggtnut Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Each and every subaru I have owned has done this. I have asked a few dealiers and none new the answer. I asked a subaru master tech and he said that it was subaru's form of heated wipers. Since they have to deal with lots of cold in areas, they needed to find a way to do this. He said that he learned this from his mater tech training. Ben (2014 Outback SAP w/ eyesite, 2014 Tribeca Limited, 2006 LGT limited sedan) Subaru Ambassador PNW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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