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Always thought it was an old wives tale. Evidently I was wrong. Make sure your wipers aren’t stuck to your windshield.
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Always thought it was an old wives tale. Evidently I was wrong. Make sure your wipers aren’t stuck to your windshield.

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My mom always used to tell me, “make sure your wipers aren’t stuck to the windshield before your turn ‘em on. Otherwise you might strip the motor.”

Turns out she was right. I used one of those windshield covers for our big snow the other day and I pulled it off yesterday without checking to see if my wipers froze. Turns out one was stuck.

Upon flipping on my wipers, the motor stripped and with two more storms coming this weekend, I can’t be without wipers. So off to the junkyard I went. $70 later I’ve got working wipers again.

by TypicalJeepDriver

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3 Comments

  1. C4PT14N

    I always just turn on my wiper heater before I let them run, I use the time to brush off the car

  2. toinfinitiandbeyond

    I try to remember to “cricket” My wipers in the winter like cricket legs sticking up in the air.

  3. Dr_Bolle

    I once was driving in heavy rain on the Autobahn with the wipers on max in an Alfa 156. I changed the height of the steering wheel while driving (not sure why I thought I had to while driving on the highway), suddenly the wipers didn’t move anymore, one was stuck up, the other down.

    So I didn’t see much, left the highway on the next exit, found a diy garage just 500m from the highway exit, very lucky. They had some space and let me in directly, I took things apart and found that the connecting rod of the wiper motor was broken. The garage boss welded the broken bolt for me for a tenner, I was back on the road with fixed wipers within 1.5 hours.

    But that’s the only time I was so lucky. Usually I break things, use the wrong oil, etc.

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