the great storm of august 14
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the great storm of august 14
Yesterday I fought my way back north from southampton presiding over the breakdown of my wipers . First I lost double speed, then the single speed became peremant wash wipe i wa reduced to intermittent, suplimented by frequent flicks of wash wipe until eventually the intermittent turned into permenant wash wipe. Switch or relays?
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Re: the great storm of august 14
Try cleaning the connections on your earth crowns - they're behind the fuse / relay panel below the dash on the nearside A-pillar. They can get corroded over time and the bad contacts can lead to all sorts of oddball behaviour.
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Re: the great storm of august 14
Thanks I'll try that
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the great storm of august 14
Reminds me of :-
Owen Newitt: Filthy weather.
Jim Trott: No no no no no no no no I've known worse.
Owen Newitt: Oh yes? When was that, then?
Jim Trott: The Great Storm, when the windmill got blown over.
Owen Newitt: That wasn't the Great Storm; that was a moderately windy night. No, the really great storm was the Great Storm.
Jim Trott: When was that, then?
Owen Newitt: When Dave Batt got decapitated.
Jim Trott: That wasn't the Great Storm.
Owen Newitt: Well, it was pretty damn great.
Jim Trott: No, the greatest storm was the one when Old Harold got blown into the quarry.
Owen Newitt: Ooh, that! The Great Winds.
Jim Trott: The what?
Owen Newitt: The Great Storm there's got to be rain, and in the Great Winds there was just wind.
Letitia Cropley: Nasty night. It reminds me of the Great Storm.
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Re: the great storm of august 14
'I've got my shotgun in the van.'
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Re: the great storm of august 14
boxer wrote:'I've got my shotgun in the van.'
You make the choice in life, you either Feel the rain.... Or just get wet
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Re: the great storm of august 14
Right, after looking up the price of a new wiper switch i decided that as the steering wheel would have to come off anyway and i had a lunch break owing , that i'd take the wiper switch off first and have a look.
Anyhow, I marked up the wheel and the column and the wheel popped off nicely , to reveal what appeared to be the remains of Himmler's cat!
So, I whipped both switches into the shed and peeled off the centuries of fluff and hair only to hear an ominous rattle. So i carefully separated the two switches and out fell .... no not the cats dog tag but the broken end of what must be the key to the Berlin bunker!
With this removed, a dose of contact cleaner followed by WD . It was back onto the column and all the weird shorts have gone away and bonus, the double speed wipers work properly.
Result! now whats next to go wrong?
Oh, and the Defender flew through the MOT.
I might do the lottery this weekend.
Anyhow, I marked up the wheel and the column and the wheel popped off nicely , to reveal what appeared to be the remains of Himmler's cat!
So, I whipped both switches into the shed and peeled off the centuries of fluff and hair only to hear an ominous rattle. So i carefully separated the two switches and out fell .... no not the cats dog tag but the broken end of what must be the key to the Berlin bunker!
With this removed, a dose of contact cleaner followed by WD . It was back onto the column and all the weird shorts have gone away and bonus, the double speed wipers work properly.
Result! now whats next to go wrong?
Oh, and the Defender flew through the MOT.
I might do the lottery this weekend.
1.6 Td 1990 van conversion Westfalia pop up roof