Hello all. Ya I know...ANOTHER wiper motor question. Sorry, but I did indeed read about every thread here that I could find relating to my year and my specific problem and didn't come up with the answer(s) I needed. The car in question is a 91 Honda EX Wagon. The problem...the front wipers AND washer just stopped working. Mind you, the rear wipers AND washer work. I'll describe what lead up to it in case it's important and then tell you what I've done as far as diagnosing goes thus far....

Basically, wife takes car to work, accidentally leaves lights on all day, and needed a jump to start it. No problem. It gets home, I charge up the battery and all is good. Mind you, it was not raining that day so she did not need to use or even try the wipers. The next morning it IS raining and when she goes to turn on the wipers......nuthin'.

I'm pretty green when it comes to testing electrical circuits but I read as many threads as I could on it, and watched all the videos I could find pertaining to it. Also, I have replaced this particular wiper motor myself last year so I am semi familiar with it. And yes, the motor was/is new, not a re manufactured one.

What I have done is.....verified that there is 12 volts getting to the wiper motor via my Multimeter.....pulled, checked and just to be safe replaced the 30 amp fuse (in the #10 spot on inside fuse box). I also used my 12 volt circuit tester w/light to verify that juice was getting to that fuse slot. I then jumped my wiper motor directly from the battery in the Hi and Lo positions/speeds to very that the motor does indeed still function. It ran beautifully. My particular year of Honda does not have a separate "Wiper Relay" per 2 different manuals, neither on the inside fuse box or in or under the under-hood fuse box but does interact with the "Integrated Control Unit" located next to the inside fuse box. So I'm left with very few choices. One, either the actual switch for the front portion of the wipers are bad OR perhaps there's something going on in the ICU. I sure as heck hope it's not the ICU as it is much more expensive than the switch, a bear to get to, and I don't have a clue what or how to test in it. The only other obvious thing to test would be the switch itself but I'm unclear as to how to do it. Would you use a multimeter and test the pinouts on the end of the switch under the console or at the plug end on the wiper motor itself?

What's your guys feeling on this? Any suggestions on what else I should check? Is it possible to have a bad switch that would allow for the rear wipers and washer to work and not the front? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

-BH-

 

Wow, over 100 views but no replies. Ouch. Okay....onward and upward. I'll try to figure this out on my own I guess. Thanks anyway guys.

-BH-

 

Sorry Olias but I can not help..

Am having wiper issues myself as they will not turn off.
Also no reply on my post yet, been searching high and low what the cause could be.

You mentioned that there are more wiper questions,
I have been doing a few searches and have only been able to find one talking about the little ball at the end of the handle being broken off.

It is what makes the switch slide up and down when you turn the wipers on different settings.
Mine is fine so that is not the issue...

Please keep us updated when you figure out what the issue is.