Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:22:21 -0400
Reply-To: Adam Thacker <87westy@THACKER.CA>
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From: Adam Thacker <87westy@THACKER.CA>
Subject: Re: Rear Wiper lead to no washer spray
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Walker [mailto:jwalker17@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 2:24 PM
To: Adam Thacker
Subject: Re: Rear Wiper lead to no washer spray
> Hello everyone I Just got my first westfalia it's a 1987. I have
> already ran
> into a bit of a problem.
> I was trying to get figure out how to get the rear wiper to work and
> was
> moving and wiggling the switch for the wipers different ways trying
> to get
> it to work. I never did get it to work but.. I managed to make the
> washer
> fluid stop spraying. Is this a common problem or known problem if so
> how do
> I fix it. Any Ideas as to why my washer flud stopped spraying? Or is
> it the
> switch that I broke and have to repair the whole thing.
> PS I just ordered my Offical Manual tonite. I hope to get it in a
> few days.
here's the trick ... to make the wipers go speed-1, you push the lever
UP, roughly in a plane with the steering wheel. that is, just let your
fingers lift it up a notch. speed-2, two notches. for intermittent
wiping, you have to 'lift' DOWN one notch off of normally-off
position.
but!!! here's them tricky german engineers for you ... to make the
REAR wiper start up, you have to PUSH the lever away from the steering
wheel!! yup. not lift, but push. and it's not a 'notch' feeling, just
push til it clicks or feels a lot of resistance. then the rear wiper
washer starts squirting and the rear wiper starts running. it'll run
for like five or six seconds then quit. then a little while later,
it'll wipe again. and again. and keep on til you turn it off.
how to turn it off? push it again. yup. it's push-on, push-off. dufus,
but it does work.
me, i just quit using the thing. when i stop for gas, i clean the
front and rear windows and the outside mirrors and the headlights and
tail lights. just as a habit thing. :)
good luck!
joel
Thanks for the reply.
I guess what I didn't specify is that before I started wiggling the wiper
arm the front washer spray worked fine.. Now it does not. Do you think I
messed up the wiper switch? And that's why it no longer sprays and .. Maybe
that's why the rear does not seem to work at all?
./athacker
