Wiper Motor Park Position

[jlagnese at massed.net]

I would suspect the relay.
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  Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:17:47 -0400
  From: "Hayes Myers" <hayesmyers at gmail.com>
  Subject: Wiper Motor Park Position
  To: "'quattro'" <quattro at audifans.com>
  >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'
  >
  >1) contact cleaner on the wiper stalk (or
  replace)
  >2) new motor assembly due to some disc/position
  sensor that has failed? (I
  >have a spare assembly anyway but find this
  solution interesting)
  >3) relay for the wipers (figure on having this
  spare as well), sounds
  >somewhat plausible, some contact staying open for
  one cycle or whatnot.
  >
  >What has been your experience with wiper parking
  problems? I pulled the
  >relay from under the hood and now I can use the
  stalk to manully park the
  >wipers and the wipers work, just no autopark
  /intermittent wipers now.
  >Actually read a bunch of posts on the wiper motor
  being kaput due to some
  >senor inside now not working to indicate proper
  park position. At this point
  >actually leaning towards replacing the wiper
  assembly based on readings
  >about senor in wiper motor. Please save me grief
  if the motor assembly
  >isn't the way to go. (not a hard job at all
  anyway)
  >
  >
  >
  >TIA,
  >Hayes 91 200 TQM 10v
  >
  >
  >
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