Singy700

took me a few hours to srtip it out about an hour to free the drivers side 10 minutes to do the other then its just a case of piecing it all back together and when you have done it your self you get the smug feeling that you have saved a couple of hundred quid in all it cost me less than a fiver for all the bits i needed and did it in under a day in the pouring rain

stuff taking it to a garage to get it done crack open the socket set and give it a go your self you dont know till you try and if it does go wrong you can still take it to the garage to get it sorted theres plenty of advice on the subject on this forum

 

I got the hubby to strip it down this morning, and it's all been cleaned up and WD40 on all the moving parts. It does look like the grooves on the inside of the arm housing (alluminium) have worn in comparison to the bit that the arm fixes to (steel?), and you can see where it has rubbed, as if it is slipping. We think that is most likely the cause, as the motor works fine without the arms on. We are now looking at getting some new arms, although they are working for now!

 

Thanks for the tips on here, I saw some comments on another Galaxy site, and someone paid

hi i brought my 2000 (x) galaxy zetec 19 TDI a little over a year ago and so far have had no problems with it

the problem is a few days ago the front wipers started sticking while they were returning to the parking setting and now they wont work at all

at times they look like they are going to work but after moving no more than a few millimeters they stop

any ideas what this could be? i dont think it is the switch/ stalk as the rear wiper still works as does the front washer jets

 

Funny that, I own a 2001 (51) Galaxy Zetec 2.3 petrol, and lent it to a friend to drive to the coast this week with her kids and all their kit. They had to be towed 100 miles in the pouring rain back home as the wipers had seized on them (How bad do I feel!). This hadn't happened to me before they went.

 

I've got it booked in at the local garage for Monday, and the bloke said to me "they make them from monkey metal, it'll be the mechanics jamming, or the motor given up" Niether, he warned me, were going to be cheap to fix, and when I told him how old the car was, he said "yeh, that's about right"

I've just had exactly the same problem, although the Ford Dealership said it may be the switch, as III works on the fan; it is usually (according to Ford) only the resistor when only IV works.

 

However after being frightened off by the cost (