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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 03:22 AM
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Default Front wiper relay

Where will I find the relay for the front windscreen wipers
 
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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 05:52 AM
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its internal to the fuse box under the steering wheel, are you having problems with the wipers when its colds but flick wipe still works?
 
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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 07:03 AM
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yes I have normal and fast wiper but no intermittent wipe and no wipe when I use the washer and when I turn wipers off they stay where they are
 
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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 11:17 AM
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Give this a shot?

https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...tch-fix-46886/
 
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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 12:29 PM
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Unless the wipers previously worked when using the washer, that function may be turned off in the ecu.
It can be set to automatically wipe when using the washer, or to washer only.
I set mine to washer only. Gives it time to soak the windshield before smearing everything first.
 
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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by akrover90
I really need to fix my wiper switch.
It wiper sticks and then when it does work, the rear wiper decides to kick in and start working too.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2019 | 07:21 PM
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So is this relay non-replaceable?
 
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Old Feb 28, 2021 | 11:05 AM
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Waiting on an opinion on the relay.

In the meantime, I picked up what outwardly appears to be a solid wiper switch from a donor at the junkyard (the dielectric grease is still clear, no dirt or corrosion on the copper contacts).

However, in getting it out of the donor, I was not very patient, and I broke off the tabs on the switch "receiver" on the donor's steering column, so now I am a bit afraid to try doing the same to remove the bad switch now on my good D2.

On the donor switch I got off, there appears to be a very small male "catch" (more like a nub, about a 32nd of an inch, you can see if you look closely at the first pic above, just to the left of the middle hole on the switch body) that along with the 2 screws presumably secures the switch in the steering column receiver.

You have to bend the switch receiver just enough to get over that nub in order to be able to remove it.

The challenge is that this male nub on the switch body is pretty far back from the edge (1/2"?), so you either need to 1) lift up the edge of the switch receiver pretty high and risk cracking it off or 2) slip something in far enough parallel to the switch body/receiver to get over the same nub.

Given the lack of success I had doing 1. (prying it up) with even skinny screwdrivers (I used two jeweler screwdrivers, one on each side of the nub), I am either going to take the screwdrivers and really grind it down thin along the shaft (a couple of cheaper HFT screwdrivers are way cheaper than replacing that plastic receiver on the steering column) or see if I can fabricate a tool out of really thin gauge sheet metal (like flashing) to slip in there parallel to switch-receiver interface and slide it out that way.

Stay tuned for the results.
 

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