[V8] Life of the 90V8Q coming to an end

[henrik at u.washington.edu]

Ingo and all,

Again, thanks a lot for your advice. After using my limited auto-mechanical
skills, I identified the electrical lines going into the headlight wipers.
However, I could not find a way of unplugging these, and subsequently put enough
fate into your statement to just go ahead and cut these lines (I agree that
these wipers are very completely unnecessary).

After cutting both lines, I restarted the car with the fuse in place, and bingo
the windshield wipers were back under my control!

Best,

Henrik, Seattle
1990 V8Q

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Ingo Rautenberg wrote:

> Henrik,
> 
> Please try not to be so hasty (yet).  Similar thing happened with my
> mother's previous v8 when someone decided to cross traffic and my mother's
> car hit the other one.  No real apparent damage except one turn signal lens
> busted.  Or so I thought.  Same wiper situation as you describe.
> 
> Go out to the car and unplug both harness to headlight motor plugs (located
> at the headlight motor).  Reinstall fuse and reattach connector to washer
> pump and everything (except the unecessary headlight wipers) will function
> properly -- at least that's my educated guess.  You see, somehow likely one
> of the motors got tweaked and you have a reverse-ground feedback loop (I
> think that's what it's called).  Let us know if my solution works for you.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ingo