After getting a speeding ticket in the 245ti, as I was pulling away from the cop it started to rain so I switched on the wipers which ran for two cycles and then I heard a clunk and both of them stopped. So I know that you're thinking fuses, but it was a clunk, bad motor? Nah.

After all of the problems you've already muddled through as a volvo person, replacing wiring harnesses, braving the first tuenup, cleaning the grit out of a throttle body, cleaning turbo oil supply lines, skinning you knukles on a motor mount replacement, driven to tears by an intank pump, consider suicide over an idle air control or just plain not caring anymore till you discovered a vacuum leak here is the new evil the WIPER BEARING. The wiper bearing shaft connects to the pass. wiper, to it is a PRESS FIT cam that is controlled by the arms that are cranked by the motor.

Long stroy short I want a NIssian Z. I jacked around with the old cam for a good two hours and was nearly driven to savage rage when I decided it was screwed waited to the rain to stop, aborted the business meeting (yay!), and headed home, talked to a mechanic who said don't bother with a used part got to get a new one, volvo only, volvo parts man said "yep happpened to me 'couple years ago.." 100 bucks for the part, so I got some rain-x and drove from Austin to Lafayette, LA and back, no rain car runs like a champ, Need to get the ac done and the windows cleaned, good grief it's 105 today in Austin. Jeez I've cut the grass a total of 2 time the whole summer.

At any rate no one had told me of the failing wiper bearing, consider yourself warned. Now I conducted a search, cause I'd never heard of such a thing in the 5 years that I've been at this board, and other guys have reused the part using loc-tite, as well as disconnecting the arm from the motor in order to more easily loosen, and fit the cables over the cam and then re-tighten them, it is not easy but can be done. Good grief, it is however cheaper than a new Z's monthly note.

Time to clean the throttle body,

Josh