Wiper Motor Park Position

[Geraint Lloyd]

If it's not just the crank loose on the splines as suggested, then the next
suspect would be the electrical contact slip ring on the motor.
Basically it's a big plastic disk with 3 copper tracks with corresponding
brushes (trigger, 12v & ground) that provides current to the motor when it's
turning and then cuts it when it's in "park".
These are greased from the factory and after a while the grease goes hard
and gets between the contact ring and brushes, interrupting the flow of
electrons and making the wipers stop in funny places.

The fix is:
Dismantle
Clean
Reassemble 
Repeat every 36 months

HTH on the Golf II front and rear as well as the back of the 200TQA.

Geraint

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Hayes Myers
Sent: 21 April 2009 10:59
To: 'H'; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: Wiper Motor Park Position

First prize for this answer as it leaves my spare as a spare! (and less
work).  Thanks! I will check it out after work and see wut's wut. (lot of
that check/see stuff going on)

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of H
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:54 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Wiper Motor Park Position

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:17:47 -0400, Hayes Myers wrote:

>My wipers work fine, switch works fine except they park vertically instead
>of horizontally... had a couple of times recently where they would park
>about 4" higher than horizontal, but this would fix itself by doing a swipe
>of the window with the switch. I searched the forum and found several
>'fixes'

It's just the crank that has slipped on the motor shaft. Loosen nut,
reposition, and tighten nut. Done. If the splines are badly damaged,
you may have to apply some sort of locking compund.
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