Intermittent Wipers Don't Work, Power Windows Work Intermittently

[Stitch]

Two things have been annoying me to hell the past few weeks as my old R-33 GTS seems to have given up on the driver's side electric window and the intermittent windscreen wipers.

Number one, the power windows - when I hit the switch to wind them up, 9 times out of 10 it won't work. I have to quickly flick the switch down and back up to get it to work and sometimes even that doesn't work. If I hold the switch in the up position and elbow the inside of the door firmly that seems to work the best. I have taken the door trim off and checked all the connections to no avail, I notice there is a little black-box that seems to be the controller for the window that I can't open. When I flip the switch you can hear things inside the box clicking and making noise, I think the problem may be there. Any ideas?

Two, the wipers - lately when I set my wipers to INT they simply will not go. This used to happen once in a blue moon but would rectify itself but lately they have stopped working on INT altogether. It used to be that I left the lever on INT and after about 10 - 20 minutes they would start wiping really fast for a few times and then return to normal speed. Now, nothing. I have to have the wipers on flat-out or not at all. Again - any ideas? As it is really annoying in light showers of rain...

[Luciano]

The power window problem is definitely that little black relay box.

You can pry it open and re solder the dodgy circuitry. This definitely fixes the problem.

If you dont have soldering gear and cant fix it yourself, i actually have one for sale (that i have opened up, and fixed) Shoot me a PM if you want it...

Don't know about the wipers though; have you tried doing a search?

[Jack88]

the wipers are controled by the little brownish looking box thats held on with a little bracket on the passengers side of the car in the engine bay,right up against the firewall..when i got my car ( R33 ) mine was disconnected for some reason but i never new what it did and my inter speed never worked.the wipers would only work on the faster speeds and i could stop the wipers where ever i wanted on the windscreen.when i pluged this box back in everything was right as rain again!

Edited July 15, 2008 by Jack88

[teng]

Actually there are two boxes, left and right side. They control the speed of the wipers.

[Stitch]

Thanks Jack and Tenq. I have seen these boxes before when looking around in the engine bay but never realised what they were for. They are connected but they are very dirty - perhaps I will try spraying a bit of electrical contact cleaner on them. I will let you know how it goes.

[Stitch]

Thanks to Luciano for the new relay! It worked wonderfully on my driver side window

Not so good news for the wipers though, I managed to find one brown box against the firewall on the passenger side, it was plugged in - I sprayed some contact cleaner in it but to no avail. Intermittent wipers still do not work. Any more ideas? This is driving me nuts as it has been raining a lot lately!

[Melly]

hey was this problem fixed??? mine had been fine and started playing up occasionally now they refuse to work and being in QLD wet season i kinda need them lol

Help would be appreciated (r33)

[funkymonkey]

exact same problem in my ceffy today.

wipers don't work at all, but when they turn on, a buzzing noise comes from the dash and my brake signal on the cluster comes on. sucks balls with it raining hard in brissy.

[Stitch]

hey was this problem fixed??? mine had been fine and started playing up occasionally now they refuse to work and being in QLD wet season i kinda need them lol

Help would be appreciated (r33)

Still no solution to this problem mate, have been busy lately. Winter coming up though I may put some more time into trying to work it out. I will keep you posted.