It's Alive!!!!!!

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So, I found the ground by the battery on the left hand side of the car (you know, the side where the passenger would <i><b>normally</b></i> sit), and gave it a good clean and that did the job (Thanks Mildred).

Well, it sort of did the job. The wipers spluttered very slowly into life and stopped, so the ground wire must have only been 1/2 the problem.

Fiddling around I saw three multicoloured wires going between the body parts of the wiper unit. If I gave these a bit of a tug the wipres started to work again. I'm going to pull the motor off at the weekend and see if one of them is loose in any way, or if there are some contacts that need cleaning.

One thing I've noticed is that the wipers don't have much power. the second the windscreen starts to dry they really struggle to move. Is this normal?

[Hasbeen]

It is certainly normal with mine. They are pretty useless when there is little rain, & most of the water is coming up off the tyres of a car in front of you, if you run out of washer water.

They are totally useless in the tropical downpours we get sometimes around here. Luckily, as a navy fleet arm pilot, I was trained to look through the windscreen of the slow subsonic 50s fighter jets we flew. No wipers on them.

The trick is to concentrate on your focus. Make sure your focus is concentrated a few hundred yards ahead of the car. Once you learn the trick, & it is not that hard, the dirty or wet windscreen disappears. You really don't notice it, except when a vehicle going the other way splashes a great deal of water on it.

Hasbeen

[FI Spyder]

Mine works nicely. Mind you I pulled the motor and rack and cleaned and regreased the rack, took apart the motor assembly, cleaned and regreased it. Cleaned any contacts I saw. I didn't touch the motor. You do have to readjust the parking switch as you won't get it back to the same position.

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[French horse dentist]

I have always been comforted that Motorbikes seem to be RHD unless the side stand is on the other side in the US (it isn't in France though) and that using your right hand to steer and right eye to monitor oncoming traffic it has been discovered albeit accidentally (no irony intended) to be safer. However I do have a LHD car too and a centre steer (Massey Ferguson)!

Why did I buy this?

[FI Spyder]

The study acknowledged the sample for RHD cars was too small to be scientifically proven. Couple that with the fact that 90% of road mileage travelled is done in the RH lane versus 10% in the left hand lane.

When was the last time you had to travel in the left hand lane so you could hold the reins in your left hand while the right hand was free to brandish your sword in case of confrontation (the reason our ancestors travelled in the left hand lane to begin with)?

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[jeffremj]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">When was the last time you had to travel in the left hand lane so you could hold the reins in your left hand while the right hand was free to brandish your sword in case of confrontation (the reason our ancestors travelled in the left hand lane to begin with)?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Given the choice, I would rather have my right hand on the steering wheel than my left, if something untoward happened whilst in the process of changing gear.

[FI Spyder]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jeffremj</i>

Given the choice, I would rather have my right hand on the steering wheel than my left, if something untoward happened whilst in the process of changing gear.
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I'm left handed so works out well for me.[:p]


- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT