Windscreen wiper relay location

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sp33der

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Ok, my wipers don't park properly, as I said in an earlier posting, so I figure I'll obtain a windscreen wiper relay which according to my Haynes, is located behind driver's footwell side panel....well, mine's a LHD so I'm gonna guess that that will mean passenger footwell side panel......but I just had a quick look, both sides and I can't see a panel anywhere :eek: So can anybody save me the bother of pulling carpet and stuff up and tell me where these panels are exactly? Many thanks! :D
 
Extract from the RAVE manual you downloaded the other day.

Of course, it doesn't help a great deal that you could see the RH side as driver or passenger depending on where you stand/sit! Either way, I'd look on the (English) offside first as you don't need to lift the carpet to get to the relays there.
 

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I'd say so. Never had to change it myself though so can't guarantee. However, taking the panel off either side is just a matter of using a coin in the trim screws so only takes seconds.
 
It was. Found the little bugger.....now I just need a new one......anyone got a green relay, marked R6FO they don't want? Or does anyone know where I could buy one? I have tried a couple of places but as none of the 2nd hand dealers know exactly which relay it is, they say I've got to come in with it which isn't practical, due to distances and the only main dealer I know of is just a little too far away for me to get to easily...
 
Not sure but I would have thought that at least they could point you in the right direction. Failing that, any decent motor factors should be able to get one for you.

Where are you?
 
Intriguing.
In the old days, the park switch used to be part of the windscreen wiper mechanism. You put the switch to "off" and current continued to flow to the motor until the wiper moved to the position where park would happen. Then the mechanism would cut the current and the wiper blade would remain in that postion until the motor was energised by the switch being put into one of the various "on" positions. So in effect there were two power feeds to the mechanism that got switched from one to the other by the switch. The mechanism contained its own off switch.
I appreciate that this may well have changed, but at the very least there has to be an electrical connection between the mechanism and the power to tell the power to cease, if you see what I mean.
It is as if switching it to "off" is you saying to the wipers "Switch off please when you reach the park position" and the wipers go "Ok, when I get there, I'll stop".
(On a Kit car I was building I once used a Ford mechanism, a Rover switch and an old fashioned Bakelite knob from a 1930s car to make it look right.)
So the off position on the switch, which you intuitively think cuts the power to the mechanism, is not in fact an offswitch. If the wipers are working and you turn the ignition switch off, then the wipers just stop dead wherever they are, cos the mechanism no longer has the power to drive itself to the park postion and off.
So if your wipers don't self-park, I'd start by looking at the wiper mechanism and the wire connections to it.
 
Gee thanks.
Can’t you just answer the inquiry? Isn’t that what “Landy” is for? To help answer questions one may not know the answer to “cool?”

Calm down, it's behind the plastic trim panels on the side of the wells, depending if your LHD or RHD ...
 
Do hope you will find it there, but somehow doubt it, (see my previous post).
When you find the relay, do check continuity, earths, condition of wires etc to the mechaanism.But you may find that the spring in the mechanism that the cogwheel rides over, which works the switch, is bust or the switch is sticky.
But I state quite categorically that the park switch may work differently.
Have you Googles "self-park switch Land Rovery Discovery series 2"? If not, I would !!!!!!!
Well I just did it for you. See this, https://www.landroversonly.com/threads/windshield-wiper-park-position.49748/
Which also contains this https://www.landroversonly.com/threads/wiper-motor-park.46457/
Amazing what you can find on the internet!
As I said, the switch in in the mechanism, under the point where the blades are turned by the arm. Not in the motor, nowhere else, exactly as mentioned in my first post.
Amazing what old skool stuff there still is on cars.
(Lots of peeps think all WWs are worked by some kind of rocking mechanism, lol!)
 
In the old days, the park switch used to be part of the windscreen wiper mechanism
It still is in most cases.;)
You put the switch to "off" and current continued to flow to the motor until the wiper moved to the position where park would happen
Non parking wipers are almost always the park switch contact in the wiper mechanism. This includes wipers in older LRs.

Modern vehicles with independent wiper spindles use stepper motors to drive the wipers independently of each other. These wipers have position sensors in the spindles, so the BCU knows where the wipers are in there sweep. They also often have additional sensors under the parked position of the blades, so the BCU tell if the blades have been moved by other means, like when the car is being cleaned.
 
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