prprandall51
MB Enthusiast
Hello people, my battery on my E-Class (2005) went flat (I recharged it successfully) and this seems to have taken my automatic wipers out - they still work but only intermittently, if you see what I mean.
There is nothing wrong with the electronics, I think (sensors, relays and switches all seem to broadly do their thing), but the automatic detection seems to work for the first three or four automatic intermittent wipes and then it ceases to wipe until the wipers are switched of and then on again.
Normally, I would put the car into the dealership to stick on Star, but the car is going to its new owner on Sunday and the dealer says they cannot look at the car this week as they are fully booked.
I found something on the internet that suggests pulling and then re-inserting the wiper relays and then putting the wiper control from 0 (off) to 3 (fast) back to 0 and then to intermittent (position 1) followed by a splash of water on the sensor to trigger them in order to reset them.
3 Questions:
1) Does this work?
2) Does anyone know how to identify the wiper relays and where they are?
3) Does anyone else have a suggested fix?
I can ask my friend (who is taking the car off me) to sort it out himself but that seems a bit tough on him (here's your new car, hope you enjoy it, by the way you'd better hope that, if it rains, it rains good and hard).
Any help or suggestions would be warmly welcomed.
Thanks
Philip
There is nothing wrong with the electronics, I think (sensors, relays and switches all seem to broadly do their thing), but the automatic detection seems to work for the first three or four automatic intermittent wipes and then it ceases to wipe until the wipers are switched of and then on again.
Normally, I would put the car into the dealership to stick on Star, but the car is going to its new owner on Sunday and the dealer says they cannot look at the car this week as they are fully booked.
I found something on the internet that suggests pulling and then re-inserting the wiper relays and then putting the wiper control from 0 (off) to 3 (fast) back to 0 and then to intermittent (position 1) followed by a splash of water on the sensor to trigger them in order to reset them.
3 Questions:
1) Does this work?
2) Does anyone know how to identify the wiper relays and where they are?
3) Does anyone else have a suggested fix?
I can ask my friend (who is taking the car off me) to sort it out himself but that seems a bit tough on him (here's your new car, hope you enjoy it, by the way you'd better hope that, if it rains, it rains good and hard).
Any help or suggestions would be warmly welcomed.
Thanks
Philip