Hello,

I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the
intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was
told there was a Switch. Can anyone advise?

chunkabc

"chunkyabc"  wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the
> intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was
> told there was a "Switch". Can anyone advise?
>
> chunkabc
>

More usually it's a sign that the wiper motor is on it's last legs or the
mechanism needs a spot of lubrication.

Chris

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> "chunkyabc"  wrote in message
> news:d3dc5f984e99f50cbf2b5c4782b76210@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the
>> intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was
>> told there was a "Switch". Can anyone advise?
>>
>> chunkabc
>>
> More usually it's a sign that the wiper motor is on it's last legs or the
> mechanism needs a spot of lubrication.
>
> Chris
>
>


I know this seems illogical, but just check the fuse. On some vehicles the 
wipers do exactly this if the wiper fuse blows.

Rob Graham

In article <d3dc5f984e99f50cbf2b5c4782b76210
@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>, chunkyabc says...

> Hello,
> 
> I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the
> intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was
> told there was a ?Switch?. Can anyone advise?
> 

Assuming the wipers park properly in normal use, the constant live feed 
to the motor isn't working.


-- 
Conor

"You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen 
Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.

In article ,
   chunkyabc  wrote:

> I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the
> intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was
> told there was a Switch. Can anyone advise?


The intermittent unit on my SD1 simply gives a short pulse to the wiper
motor and relies on the self parking action for the rest of the sweep.

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    Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:28:08 +0100, Conor  wrote:


>In article <d3dc5f984e99f50cbf2b5c4782b76210
>@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>, chunkyabc says...
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a Rover 216. The windscreen wipers work okay except when the
>> intermittent switch is used. They stop half way through the cycle. I was
>> told there was a ?Switch?. Can anyone advise?
>> 
>Assuming the wipers park properly in normal use, the constant live feed 
>to the motor isn't working.


Then how would they park properly ?  Without a constant feed, they will stop
wherever they are when switched off.  As Dave P has suggested, the most
likely way that intermittent wiping operates is via a short pulse to the
switched side - long enough to move the motor to a point where it's
self-parking mechanism takes over to complete a single sweep.

Of course, that doesn't preclude a designer coming up with something far
more fiendish and prone to peculiar failure modes...

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