Hey Alistair. Does the rear wiper relay have a printed circuit board? My 99 "programmable" front wiper relay would be intermittent but would come on if I pushed up at wires/connectors to it. Issue turned out to be cold solder joints at relay PCB. Easy fix. Neil. On 3/21/20, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > 1. For a few years now I’d have this occasional sluggish rear wiper. I had a > look at the electrical contacts and as much of the mechanics I could see and > reach back there in the hatch. Nothing to report. Recently the wiper would > just not work. Something made me think to reach down to fuse panel and push > in wiper relay module... wiper started to work. So I pulled the module, > cleaned contacts with de-oxit, re seated module , and surprise surprise , > rear wiper works smartly and snappily. Easy win for me.
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