Hello all,

I recently had something stuck on my windshield and when I tried to wipe it away with the wipers, one of the wipers got stuck and now it is not in the right position... the driver side wiper only wipes about 3/4 of the way its supposed and then parks itself off the bottom of the windshield. I tried moving it by hand but it doesn't seem to care. How do I adjust the wiper back to it's proper place? Thanks!

--Steve G '89 740 GL 223,000 mi.

I second the esteemed mr. ringlee's comments. The arm is spring loadedand "leans" itself against the nut when in the down position. This can make it resistant to your actually moving it to see if its loose (by manually pulling it back and forth) but can let it slip when the motor drives (the resistanc of teh window pulls against it and causes the motor arem to slip.

Most likely your nut came loose over time and it just slipped the threads when you used it. As Ringlee said, flip the cap up, undo the nut, lean the arm to the out position (like cleaning the windows), rotate it to the proper position, lean it back down (checking the position... these last two can take come trial anderror to get right), and then retighten the nut on the arm to affix it in place.

My wiper arm shot out over the car on a trip from VT one time and was left dangling over teh side mirror until I had a chance to fix it. Simple fix that can be done in less than 5 minutes.

-rt

Pull up on the cap covering the end of the wiper arm, unbolt it, remove the arm, clean off the drive cog, and replace using loctite on the nut.