Not deserving the Bravo. I stumbled to success. I have a drawer full of salvaged van relays, for some reason I didn’t think I had rear wiper relay… I had two. A simple rummage in the drawer a couple of years ago would have been smart :-)

Alistair 

> On Mar 25, 2022, at 8:28 AM, Andrew Martin <ramblinvan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ha! I fat fingered something and deleted my “bravo” to Alistair. 
> Andrew
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2022, at 8:10 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Trivial little thing. But it’s Friday and not much list traffic .
>> 
>> Past few years, on occasion, my rear wiper would work slowly. As if it it had mechanical resistance. Then sometimes it would work normally. I checked the linkage, the electrical connections at the motor, all good.
>> 
>> Then this last winter it would stop working. If I reseated the relay on the fuse panel it worked again.
>> 
>> Aha, bad connection there.
>> 
>> Cleaned that up, contact cleaner etc.
>> 
>> It continued to act up. I could reach down and reseat the relay while driving….
>> 
>> Took the relay off and popped off the cover. Maybe , maybe I could see a bad solder trace. Good friend Greg, electronics guy thought he saw the same and took it home to reflow.
>> 
>> Back in van and it worked. For a week…
>> 
>> I thought I hadn’t any spare rear wiper relays, I looked again and found two. Popped one in and the wiper works perfectly, and continues to work perfectly for the last month.
>> 
>> Exciting story eh?
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> Alistair