Rear Wiper Motor

[Tomdeswrig]

My rear wiper motor has suddenly stopped. The fuses are OK, and the relay is tapping annd when swappeds with another one appears to be OK.

When I connected a volt meter onto the connection that attaches to the wiper motor itself I can get a voltage permently across three of the wires. I get nothing when connecting across one of the wires g)

Wire No's (numbers on connection)

1 + 2 = no reading

1 + 3 = 12.4v

1+ 4 = 12.4v

I have tried it with the wiper switch on!

Any ideas on what to do next - other than spend £88 pounds on a new wiper motor or £54 on a second hand one. The wiper motor seems completely dead - the cogs etc are all fine.

Any further tests I shoudl do before spending?

Thanks

[gregozedobe]

Have you considered just connecting up some (fused) 12v power directly to the motor terminals to make sure that it is the motor at fault (rather than some kind of controller/switch/wiring fault) ?

[Tomdeswrig]

Nope - I've not tried that yet. Any ideas which wires are which in order to test? Anyone have a handy wiring diagram??

[GAFF]

I know one of the lads had a few rear motors replaced.