General The snow has hurt my car

[Eklipze3k]

My drivers side wiper isn't moving, looks like the weight of the snow has managed to disconnect it from the link or something.

The passenger side one moves fine, and drivers side one does move a little - a case of a few degrees. I can move it freely by hand too. All the external bits that I can see appear to be fine - the arms isn't bent and there doesn't appear to be any evidence of tampering - what do we reckon, easy to fix and how to go about it?

 

[Andy Monty]

if it moves by hand chances are you have broken or the link has popped off

 

[rallycinq]

My guess is you used the wiper before clearing the snow, so the ball has popped off the linkage.

Loosen the bulkhead carpet and pop it back on.

Cheers

SPD

 

[Eklipze3k]

I didn't even switch the car on until I'd cleared the snow, mainly 'cos I didn't want to get snow on my seat

Will have a look behind the carpet in the morning and see what I can see.

 

[allanhelen]

turn them on and have a look down the vents below the windscreen you can see the linkages moving but I guess as happens on many of these cars your balls popped out 'tis a 2 minute job to fix.

remove the weather strip, undo 4 screws locate ball and socket and give them a good squeeze together, test, replace screws and refit weather strip...job done, whilst you are at it lubricate the spindles