Alright, I got my hatchback a year ago and it was an STD (standard) Civic. It had almost nothing on it and intermittent wipers was one of them. So I did alot of research and frequent visits to the local junkyard just to prove I was right and finally found how to get intermittent wipers on our poor little civics.

Items you'll need:
- A gray box behind the fuse panel marked with the letter "B"
- A wiper arm from either a crx, 4-door civic, or a hatchback that has
the intermittent on it
- A flat-head screwdriver
- A phillips head screw driver

How To:

Let me just say that this is easy to do, EASY.

First find a civic/crx dx or higher. It can be either a 4-door civic, 2-door hatchback or crx. First and foremost get the box behind the fuse panel. It's a gray box that attaches behind the fuse panel so you will have to unsrew the fuse panel, lower it and bend it a little to find the box on the back. It looks like the old Gameboys. Then use the flat-head screwdriver and push the little tabs holding it in. It should pop out and make sure it has a large letter "B" on the label. The one in your car should be labeled with an "A" and that shows the difference between the two.

Now it's on to the wiper arm so all this can work. First make sure the car has intermittent on the arm and then lets start. First take out the screws below the plastic panel that wraps around behind the steering wheel. There should be three holes under the bottom part, so stick a phillips head in there and unscrew them. Once there out, then take the plastic that wraps around the steering wheel and seperate it by sticking a flat head in between the line in the middle of it. There should be some clicking sounds and the plastic should open into two parts. Don't worry though, you won't break nothing. THen take them off gently, top one is a little tricky but it will move. Then look at the wiper arm and follow it in to where it goes to a little box behind the steering wheel. Unscrew the box off and uplug the plug behind it and it should pop off. Now that's done.

Now all you have to do is replace the box behind the your fuse panel with the one you just got and same goes for the wiper arm. Now turn it on and see how you like your new and improved wipers.

Reasons:
The little gray box's have chips inside that hold both the lights relay, the hazard light relay, the door chirper and the the intermittent wiper relay. The base model civics came with everything besides the intermittent relay and are marked in the front with a large letter "A" while the one with the relay is marked with a letter "B". This is the main core of the wipers turning off and on.

The Wiper Arm is a switch that gives power to the relay which activates the wipers and turns them on and off.

Hope this helps and it did me and now I'm so happy to have them. Good Luck my friend.

Warning: I am not responsible for any damage done to your car or the parts car. It worked fine for me and should work for you.

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this is great, i've tried to replace the wiper switch but that didnt do it, i had just started thinking the icu was related too.
i just gotta find a good icu now.

this should go in the faqs

 

x2 definate FAQ meterial. i was just about to go out and get a jank after market set up.... awesome.


Modified by markviiisvt4 at 7:05 PM 10/7/2007

 

You sir, are a genius.

 

great contribution to honda-tech we need more posts like this that are definite FAQ material. Thanks man

 

i was really supprised to find this post, it was 3 years old and not one single person had viewed the page!

 

i just finished doing this. and I can confirm this works.
I finaly got intermittent wipers
I had tried to swap the wiper arm and even the wiper motor about a year ago and without the ICU (marked B) it didnt work. i'am pretty stoked somebody cracked this one.
I used to pull down the wiper arm every 10 seconds to get my intermittent speed, and that was getting old. I think i may have worn out my last wiper switch doing that.

 

sick i will do this, this weekend cuz my wipers dont work and ive already tryed to switch out the on/off switch

 

Nice ! now I might swap the grey B box in mine. I had a weird problem with the intermittent wipers only working when its warm outside, its probably the grey box worn out

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Crx Jimmy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nice ! now I might swap the grey B box in mine. I had a weird problem with the intermittent wipers only working when its warm outside, its probably the grey box worn out</TD></TR></TABLE> Probably, I actually have a pile of ICU's that I switch in and out, I probably should see if I can just purchase a new one and ignore it for another 18 years.

 

Good stuff, I was looking into doing this just for the added convenience. Now that I know what I'll need, I'll be making a trip to the junkyard very soon.

 

do you have a pic of the fusess cuz i think that im missing a relay

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by assassinACE12 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do you have a pic of the fusess cuz i think that im missing a relay</TD></TR></TABLE>
do you mean the ICU maybe? its labeled A and B, you need the ICU marked B.

the ICU is located on the back of the fuse panel.

heres a link that might have some pics http://www.g2ic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127170

 

on the back of my fuse box its stamped with b do you mean the black little square that goes in the back of the fuse box

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by assassinACE12 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">on the back of my fuse box its stamped with b do you mean the black little square that goes in the back of the fuse box</TD></TR></TABLE>

yes, mine is grey.

so are your intermittent wipers not working? if so you can open up the icu, and look for burned capacitors or burns on the curcuit board. repair ( look at the link above) or replace

I had problems after installing intermittent wipers, so I unplugged the icu inspected it (it was ok) then plugged it back in and it started working again. I guess it could have been a bad connection.

 

Wow, totally forgot I posted this! Great to see it's working out for you guys! Still wanna confirm that after almost three years, the car's wipers still work and everything here is legit!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Shaguar47 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow, totally forgot I posted this! Great to see it's working out for you guys! Still wanna confirm that after almost three years, the car's wipers still work and everything here is legit! </TD></TR></TABLE>


thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!

I had tried to add intermittent wipers with no success untill finding this post

I had to bump this very usefull post a while back <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by grog &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i was really supprised to find this post, it was 3 years old and not one single person had viewed the page!</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

Thanks bro!

 

awesome...and to the junkyard!

 

Yes, it works. Did this to mine awhile ago. This is currently in the FAQ's would be awesome for this page to get locked. No need to see it multiple times. Just need people to be more aware of the FAQ's page at the top of the forum.

 

will u have to get both wiper arms??

 

It's the part on the inside next to the steering wheels that controls the wipers not the arms that hold the wipers...

 

If there's a mod, please lock this! Thank you!

 

ohhh ok i recently broke so i might as well just go intermittent. It broke because of no power steering and i hit my wrist with it hard.

 

I've had my hatch for 10 years and never got around to figuring this out, or doing it.

Bravo to you OP.

You've made logging into this site worthwhile for once. Seriously, my hat's off to you