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Is there more than one type of wiper linkage? I am trying to replace mine but it does not look like the one in the picture above? Have been quoted

wolfman62 - How easy was it to get the linkage out? I took the wipers off this weekend to see why they were stalling. One of the spigots heats up very quickly when the wipers are operated. Tried to drip oil and wd40 down the spigot but it still runs hot very quickly. I did not have enough time to try to remove the linkage. Do I need to take any other things off before I can get the wiper linkage out? Howe do I remove the spigot from it's housing? Your help is much appreciated.

I also have just found that all my electric windows won't go back up. They are all quite happy to go down but I have to use the key in the passenger side door lock to get them to go back up again. This happened the same time as the failure of my drivers door lock. It had started to get very stiff and on several occassions I found it very hard to remove the key. The driver;s door lock barrel rotates and I can remove it quite easily. Seems that whatever is connected to the back of the lock has come off. Looks like there is a groove for a circlip. I can't lock the driver's door at all! I suspect that the switch in the drivers door that is used to close the all the windows has in some way become disconnected and is causing this failure. The window motors all work OK as I can close all the windows from the door lock at the passenger side. The car is in the garage on Monday to have all this sorted out. More expense!

Thanks for the input. I finally managed to take a closer look today and had the wiper arms off. Guess what! The drivers side spigot heats up after a very short time - so I suspect that this one is seized up. Took the circlip and washer off the top of the spigot and prised out the rubber o-ring. Also found a lot of gunge beneath the o-ring. Have tried dripping oil and wd-40 but still find that the whole thing heats up. I see that there are 3 bolts holding the linkage onto the body. I was able to loosen all these. Does anyone know if the linkage can be removed easily? Or do I need to remove other bits from the engine compartment? Is there an easy way to seperate the spigot to see if it is worth greasing it? I may find that this is so badly seized that I need to replace the whole linkage. Any ideas as to the cheapest place that I can get a new linkage? Cheers Jan

Hi, I have a 1999 Galaxy 2.3 Auto Ghia X and have been quite happy with the car - even managed to get 60,000 miles out of a front set of Dunlops! Is this a record?? However whilst driving back from the Birmingham area yesterday in heavy rain and wind, I noticed that on the normal setting the wipers were beginning to struggle to complete their wipe and were slowing down quite considerably. On several occasions the wipers would stop before the park position and there was nothing I could do to restart them for what seemed like ages. This is very bad news if you are travelling on a motorway at speed in heavy rain. After about 20-30 seconds I saw the wipers return to the park position and I was able to regain control. This is very worrying and very dangerous and must have happended four or five time in all. Does anyone have a similar experience and what is likely to be the cause of this? The wipers seem OK today on a normal drive around town. Perhaps the wipers could not cope with the heavy force of wind and rain on a motorway at 70mph? Or is the wiper motor about to fail? Or does some part of the linkage need lubrication? Also I notice that whilst travelling fast on the motor way the intermittant wipe seems to take a long time between wipes (10-15 seconds). Whilst driving around town it seems to wipe every 2-3 seconds. What is controlling the wipe interval? Many thanks in advance! JR

Thanks seatkid. I will have a look based on what you have recommended. Further to my issues I now have a gearbox that does not want to change gear and seems to want to stay in 1st gear. I seem to be able to clear this by putting the selector into neutral and then back into drive. :blink: By the way the car is an S reg 1999 2.3litre petrol automatic with cruise control,etc. I gues this was the top of the range car at the time.

Hi, I have an S-reg Ghia-X Galaxy with Automatic Box. Have recently noticed two things: 1. When stopped and with my foot on the brake pedal, whilst moving the gear selector from Driver to Neutral, there is a pronounced lurch from the car. A similar lurch happens when selecting Drive from Neutral. 2. I seem to be unable to get the transmission to change down when depressing the accelerator pedal down hard - is there a switch that is causing problems? This caught me unawares when trying to quickly overtake - and I suddenly found that my slow increase in speed in top gear was not going to get me round the slower driver! I have searched the forum - but have not found any similar reports. Does anyone on the forum have experience of what I have described. The lack of kick-down on the automatic box is the most concerning. Many thanks!