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Intermittent rear wiper fault
Ricky123:
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--- Quote from: Ricky123 on September 03, 2015, 01:06:30 am ---Audi a3's of similar year to mk5's suffer from water off the rear washer leaking into motor and cause them to act like there possessed lol
Could be that?
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Do you know of a fix?
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Replacing the wiper motor was the cure when I had mine as the motor and washer pump are a combined unit
GTIEagles:
Update to this post:
I have found that by squeezing the wiring that goes from the roof of the car to the boot, I can get the wiper working again. So I guess that means there must be a fault with the wiring somewhere? Is there any easy way to check?
GTIEagles:
Done some digging around and found this very helpful guide: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=86689.0
I'm hoping mine is not as serious but at least I know there is a solution!
SiofChester:
I went through a bunch of debuigging on this, wiring checks etc etc Turns out it was the motor. BOSCH motor off the bay of e and its been reliable for 6 months now
GTIEagles:
It definately is the loom, I checked it last night and found this:
It's probably the reason why the high level brake light is dead too!
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