can the rear wiper be hot wired

ok, so my rear door had a problem quite a few months back, the window wouldn't drop, as a bodge to get around it I got the window lowered a few mill by brute force, the door then opened/closed, but left the window on the outside of the channel, a couple of weeks ago I had another go at fixing/bodging it, and this time the wire cables snapped dropping the whole window down, so another bodge of holding the window up with metal bars etc, but the good thing was the window now sits back in the channel were it should be, of course it just does not lift up that few mill, its not a worry to me, hardly an water/rain ingress, and in all honesty, one less thing to go wrong, I did look into replacing bits, but the list is endless, and may still not sort itself out, so it'll be left as is

now of course the "car" thinks the rear window is open, so beeps when locking the car, again, I can live with that, but the rear wiper wont work, again it thinks there's an open window

so, can I re route wires and just have a direct wire to power the wiper? so its not going through whatever its going through at the moment, if that makes sense

Would it not just be a case of shorting a micro switch wires together?

There must be a switch of some kind on the handle/door catch. The wires would need either shorting if the circuit is normally closed when the door is shut, or seperate them and insulate them if the circuit is normally open when the door is closed.

it's not the position of the door that is relevant, it is the position of the glass.

once the glass has dropped slightly, the wiper and heated rear windscreen are inhibited, to prevent, for example, the wiper being operated with the rear window open but the tailgate closed.

It is easy to fool the tailgate into thinking its closed, just turn the latch over with a screwdriver.

don't know how to fool the ecu into thinking the glass is up. think the calibration works from load on the motor rather than a microswitch.

ready to be corrected...

But the easiest way is to spend 15 quid on a rear window repair kit

ZDomZ said:

But the easiest way is to spend 15 quid on a rear window repair kit

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obviously not read the whole post, as the window STOPPED working before the wires broke, thus using a window repair kit would only let me remove the wooden/metal struts/bodge, the window would still NOT WORK, as something had gone wrong already,

so then what? replace the rear handle/micro switch, what if it still dont work, the window motor? what if it still dont work?

can you now see my point, all that malarky just to get the window moving up and down, why bother, the door opens/closes as it should do, I never drove with the rear down as you'd get fumes in when sitting at lights etc, so Im just trying to ask if I can run a direct live feed through a switch to the wiper,

The window usually stops due tithe cable fraying and locking up the mechanism

But if you are insisting that landrovers design is in neccercary yes you can run the wires and bridge in a Heath Robinson rear wiper that won't auto park or work when you reverse.

ZDomZ said:

But if you are insisting that landrovers design is in neccercary yes you can run the wires and bridge in a Heath Robinson rear wiper that won't auto park or work when you reverse.

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Im not saying the design is unnecessary, just unnecessary to me,
and if the wiper is directly wired, why would it not work in reverse????
not that I can ever remember wanting the rear wiper on for more than a few wipes

The wiper is controlled by the ccu unit on the back of the fuse box. When you reverse with the front wipers on the rear automatically works.

The biggest issue is the lack of park function so you would have to watch to see where the wiper is to switch it off in the park position.

It is just me being me that if something should work in a certain way - I will try to make sure that it does unless I can improve the system.

Bypassing the ccu would be a fairly simple job of cutting and reconnecting a few wires. But I would be fixing the problem not the symptoms.....