My son is too thick/idle to remove the 3 inch of snow off his windows. Uses his wipers to clear it instead. Drove to my house with wipers parked in an elevated position on the hard packed snow. I cleared it myself, but the passenger wiper now looks high. The arm has an upward bend in it about half way up - looks intentional - is that right?

Can anyone tell me if the photo below of the passenger side looks right?

Edited 23 March, 201313 yr by xman

Just checked mine and is exactly the same, passenger wiper is just above VIN number

Phew! Thanks for that ray! Thought he had damaged the mechanism...

The wipers have 2 rest positions that they alternate between each time they're used, that just looks like they're in the higher of the two.

Yeh looks like the higher of two positions, which is normal.

If they are on intermittent they sit like that, then when you turn the wipers off they go further down.

My wipers sometimes twitch when you, for example, turn the engine off. Why is this?

As above, it's so the blade isn't always resting in the same position.

Also, xman give your son a figurative smack on the back of the head.

The wipers have 2 rest positions that they alternate between each time they're used, that just looks like they're in the higher of the two.

So I checked this, and the photo shows the lower of the 2 positions, on the higher position the passenger blade end rests on the start of the clear area of the window. So it looks as if he has fooked it up. I can move the blades down by hand about an inch (both move together). What do you think is more likely, the arm moved round on the spindle or something bent in the drive mechanism?

Also, xman give your son a figurative smack on the back of the head.

Waste of time, I've tried but just got ignored, might as well have been talking to myself. Only thing that makes him notice is when someone give him a bill to pay.

Edited 23 March, 201313 yr by xman