My windshield wipers wont work! All of a sudden the motor is going but the wipers are not moving. This car is a saturn ion 2004. And only has 44,000 miles are on it. What is wrong? and how to fix this?
It's usually not the motor but the relay. That's located there where the fuses are, under the hood. The next thing after that would be your multi-switch that you use to turn the wipers on with, it may have gone bad, but I always go for the relay first, as that's the weakest link.
Some cars have a shear pin in the mechanical linkage that will break. Others have the shaft that holds the wiper blades with Teeth to hold the wiper in place. These can wear out or strip easily. I assume this did not involve the wipers being frozen to the windshield with snow or ice. If you turn them on before defrosting or deicing the windshield, you could have caused some damage. Even if you didn't do it on the day it failed.
first thing would be check fuses to see if one is blown you got a owners manual it wil l tel l you which one it is but easy to pull one and look to see if they bad or not either way and you sure they not froze
