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I had a squeaky squeal coming from the engine bay, which drove me mad, It had a mind of its own, sometimes it never happen then next time I started up it would go on all day. All the way to Paris in fact!! I couldn't pin point the noise it seemed to be everywhere around the engine bay. Well as you've said the tensioner is pricey, so I change the belt (cheapest option) and now silence. You must go for a genuine belt though, I could only get a pattern belt to begin with, that last about 40 miles before it started to sing.

Thanks for the info, yes it's a MkII and doesn't have rain sensors. The switch wiper switch is in the off postion when it happens. I understand when you describe that when the wipers are turn on they do 'park' a little higher up the screen, my twitch is around half that distant. Sound like it maybe a nervous twitch, but my wife hasn't driven it yet so need not worry! Thanks again Steve

Hello everyone, Newbie to the site and very informative you all are. I've not long had my 02 2.3 Galaxy and love it. But as I turn the key to 'on' the front wipers twitch, sort of check themselves out. I see the nearside one clearly move down then up about an inch, then as I start the engine it does it again. Now this site is overflowing with wiper faults so I cleared out the hard to get to 'water-trap' and check out the workings and it all looks fine. Apart from that everything works as it should, so shouldn't really complain. Any thoughts. Thanks for you time, Steve