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Subject:Re: Wiper Wackiness - No Parking
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:37:25 -0600

> --- Anthony Mourkas <mourkas@APPLEISP.NET> wrote:
> > Recently my front windshield wipers stopped parking
> > correctly.  All
> > functions work as normal except that wipers will
> > park wherever they
> > happen to be in their cycle when the switch is
> > returned to its off
> > position.
>

Maybe vanagon wipers are different than most, but generally the parking
function is controlled by circuitry at the motor itself.  There is a
wire supplying +12 to the motor whenever the ignition is on.  A switch
within the motor assembly applies this power to the motor when it is not
in the parked position so that the motor will continue to run until it
reaches park.  This is the conventional approach.  It's hard to verify
anything from the incomprehensible Bentley diagrams.

Larry A.