Another weird problem

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Gizmo2005
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Another weird problem

Postby Gizmo2005 » Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:44 pm

I have a 2014 Pathfinder SL with about 43K miles.

Yesterday we got hit with 16" of snow. I park my car outside so I had to scrape a lot of snow off the roof, body, etc.

Today coming back from lunch, I turned on my windshield wipers to get some snow sliding off the roof. The problem is, I couldn't turn it off. The wipers wouldn't turn off no matter what I did.

At the stop light, I turned off the car. The wiper was still going. So I turned on the car and drove back to work. I parked, turned of the engine and it still was going. WTF. I started to remove some of the snow chunks and ice from the windshield with my hands. Then it stopped.

Any explanation for this?


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Postby Grumpah » Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:34 pm

Is it back to normal now (or are you afraid to try it? :lol: ) Could be a short in the wiper switch.

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Postby Gizmo2005 » Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:17 am

Yeah. It turns off now. What I did was clear the ice chunks and snow from the front. As I said, we had tons of snow Monday. But why would ice chunks cause the wiper to keep going and cannot be turned off even when the engine is off?

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Postby Grumpah » Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:05 am

As I previously commented:
JayArras wrote: Could be a short in the wiper switch.

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Postby smj999smj » Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:13 pm

"Could be" a number of things. Without the ability do duplicate the problem, there is no way to diagnose it. Hopefully it was just a one-time thing. The wipers are controlled by the body control module based on input from the wiper switch. If one had a scan tool capable of reading BCM codes, it would be worth checking, but most people don't have one at their disposal.


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