Rear wiper motor wiring mystery

what kind of disco?

300tdi, sorry.

This might sound a bit daft, but did you have the drivers door open when you were testing it?

For some reason it doesn't work when the drivers door is open, or other door on some.

cheers

Gav

I'm not sure, I'll check that in the morning.

Landycommander you are a legend! I closed the door and it worked. I could have faffed around for ages trying to sort this out.

mcmoonter said:

Landycommander you are a legend! I closed the door and it worked. I could have faffed around for ages trying to sort this out.

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Oooops another newbe disco owner on the Forum then

landycommander said:

This might sound a bit daft, but did you have the drivers door open when you were testing it?

For some reason it doesn't work when the drivers door is open, or other door on some.

cheers

Gav

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I didn't know that.

A few weeks ago I defrosed the windows then pressed the rear wiper button and it went crunch - damn, not enough deicing! So got out to free it off incase it was still trying to run and burnt my motor out. So the drivers door was open, pulled it off the ice and went and put the switch on, drivers door still open. It didn't run, just assumed it had blown fuse or damaged the motor.

Later on I tried it again and it worked, so now I know why it wasn't working when I freed it off!

Ah the things you learn - I wonder if it just senses an open door, doesn't know which one it is, and incase it's the rear door it doesn't run it incase it swipes someone or something.

discool said:

Oooops another newbe disco owner on the Forum then

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I've had mine since 1998 and didn't know that!

In the 14 years of ownership I've never been in the situation this happened to me to find that out.

I stripped down my original motor and cleaned it all up and refitted it - it didnt work so I assumed it was fecked and got another one off ebay!

This one also didnt work to begin with and then by chance i left it switched on and closed all the doors and hey presto, it worked!

it wasnt till a couple of weeks later i came across a thread on here detailing that the wiper wouldnt work if the drivers door was open!

AAHH! A few weeks back, I had a sticking lock on my rear door and had to take the door card off to free the lock. Got that sorted, put the door card back on and reconnected the speaker. Tried the wiper to check that everything was okay and lo...it didn't work!!

Bugger, methinks I've knocked the connector on the wiper motor!!

Two hours of faffing later, took everything apart...put everything back together and it had started working again.

I wish I'd known it was just cause I'd initially left the driver's door open that it hadn't worked!!:der:

Now I know!!!:hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi