[Vwdiesel] wipers and blower intermittent - and the winner is...

Will Taygan william at taygan.com
Fri Aug 26 01:30:52 EDT 2005


And the winner is..  Val!  The original accessory relay (stamped May
1980) has a broken terminal!  Next time you're in Alaska I owe you a
beer for saving me mucho mucho time tracing the wires.

Um, just a question: what are the other accessories?  I didn't notice
anything else not working (I have no rear defrost, no radio, hmmm..)
yes, yes I will look it up, but thanks everyone for being a very helpful
crutch when time is short.

Will.

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:38 -0400, Val Christian wrote:
> How about the accessory relay?  Are other accessories working?
> 
> Val
> 
> > 
> > hmmm..  I haven't delved too deeply into the Bentley (that what happens
> > when you've got a month of company), but the 1981 truck sat for a month,
> > in mildly humid weather, and now the heater blower and the windshield
> > wipers work intermittently!
> > 
> > They work or don't work at the same time.  Hmmm.. common ground?  common
> > feed? Nothing else seems to be affected.  
> > 
> > Just by chance, has this happened to anyone, so I can shine up some
> > particular connections and get it working again?
> > 
> > when power is on, the switches are fine, the motors are fine.
> > 
> > I've shined up the ground terminals on the battery and chassis
> > connections, wiggled lots of wires, and sprayed contact cleaner where I
> > can reach.
> > 
> > Any bets on where the culprit is?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Will
> > Chugiak, AK
> > 1981 1.6NA Pickup
> > 1994 1.6TD (MF) Franken-Jetta
> > 
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