Windscreen Wipers

[Guest CLB76]

Hi could anybody please help as my windscreen wipers on my berlingo van 2004 year sometimes dont work then they work on there own and start working after the key is removed then another time they wont work at all? I`ve checked all the fuses and they seem fine nothing blown there. Please help.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[Guest Chris Eccles]

First, you have my sympathy.

-

The electrics on the Berlingo are a bloody nightmare.

In all other respects, it's a great little van.

-

I now have a switch on the dash which connects 12V

straight to the wiper motor, and a microswitch under the

crank arm of the middle wiper axle to cut supply at the

parking point. This is probably (ultimately) the only way

you'll ever get the wipers to work simply and reliably.

-

There is a complicated (and utterly unnecessary) system

of pulsed signals sent from the wiper stalk to a microchip

which is supposed to deal with wiper speed and period.

This is the cause of the problems everyone I have spoken

to has with Berlingo wipers.

-

Take my advice. Fit a switch, a fuse and some wire.

Works great - as it has on countless proper vehicles for

decades before we had all this EMS crap.

 

Chris

[Guest CLB76]

First, you have my sympathy.

-

The electrics on the Berlingo are a bloody nightmare.

In all other respects, it's a great little van.

-

I now have a switch on the dash which connects 12V

straight to the wiper motor, and a microswitch under the

crank arm of the middle wiper axle to cut supply at the

parking point. This is probably (ultimately) the only way

you'll ever get the wipers to work simply and reliably.

-

There is a complicated (and utterly unnecessary) system

of pulsed signals sent from the wiper stalk to a microchip

which is supposed to deal with wiper speed and period.

This is the cause of the problems everyone I have spoken

to has with Berlingo wipers.

-

Take my advice. Fit a switch, a fuse and some wire.

Works great - as it has on countless proper vehicles for

decades before we had all this EMS crap.

 

Chris

Hi thank you for your reply, thats a good idea i will get that looked at the weekend.

Once again many thanks.

 

Claire

[Guest CLB76]

First, you have my sympathy.

-

The electrics on the Berlingo are a bloody nightmare.

In all other respects, it's a great little van.

-

I now have a switch on the dash which connects 12V

straight to the wiper motor, and a microswitch under the

crank arm of the middle wiper axle to cut supply at the

parking point. This is probably (ultimately) the only way

you'll ever get the wipers to work simply and reliably.

-

There is a complicated (and utterly unnecessary) system

of pulsed signals sent from the wiper stalk to a microchip

which is supposed to deal with wiper speed and period.

This is the cause of the problems everyone I have spoken

to has with Berlingo wipers.

-

Take my advice. Fit a switch, a fuse and some wire.

Works great - as it has on countless proper vehicles for

decades before we had all this EMS crap.

 

Chris

Hi would you be able to give me a bit of info on the wiring up to switch on dash and bits and bobs whats needed?

 

Sorry to be a pain.

 

Many thanks

 

Claire

[Guest CLB76]

Hi thanks again for your advice i`ve had a family friend run the checks on it at the weekend and all is now well, it was the wiper motor its self.

 

Many thanks

 

Claire