My windscreen wipers and pump on my nissan terrano have stopped working on intermittent front and rear but slow and fast wipe works ok any ideas?

sounds like the wiper control itself is playing up

turn the wipers on fully and try tapping on the wiper motor, sometimes the brushes freeze...

WINDSHIELD WIPERS

It can be faulty wiper motor or blown wiper control fuse.

Do you hear any kind of noise when you starter the wiper function. If yes then fuse is ok, but issue is wiper motor.

If no movement at all and no noise then its blown fuse or shorted/loose wiper control wiring: -----

For complete troubleshooting i suggest you a helpful link with accurate solutions.

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Click the link below: -------

http://alltypesofpartsreplacing.blogspot.com/2012/12/windshield-wipers-windshield-wipers-not.html

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These will help.

Thanks.

Hi, First check that you have wash liquid in tank. second make sure that it will not freeze by putting alcohol in your mix of water and soap. You can buy it already mixed at most service stations. Check pump for corosion on contacts.
Good luck.

On the Terrano's the washer pump that controls both the rear window and the headlight washers are fed from the same water reservoir found closest to the front of the vehicle. The one closest to the windscreen is for washing that windscreen but the larger one to the front washes both of the area's mentioned in your posting. On that unit there are two seperate pumps, one for the rear and one for the headlights. These have a tendancy to stop working through a variety of reasons. To check out the wiring a "Multimeter" is needed. Put the multimeter onto 12V if there is a setting for that on yours, if not put it onto 24V as most have that setting. Disconnect the wiring harness closest to the water reservoir and try each pin within the connection leading TO the reservoir. Attach one lead of your multimeter to an "Earth/Ground" point on your chassis and use the red lead to test each pin for voltage. If no voltage is found then try all of your fuses found near the drivers right knee area, but if voltage is found then try removing the pumps from the reservoir and purchase new ones that match. Usually a "Generic" model for the pump will be found to fit. I know I was able to find one when this same thing happened to me.

Hope this helps.

No solution sorry - mine have done exactly the same - will wipe front screen if you mess with the stalk - rear wiper works when you push the stalk forwards or backwards but no washer to either - have you found a solution? Kind regards - Andy

Ok, here are the wiring colors and functions/destinations. C0030 is the motor connector for the front windscreen.
C0030-1 - Black, runs to a Earth
C0030-2 - White/Green - Fed from the front wiper relay, via the IDM
C0030-3 - Blue/Green - Flick Wipe/Fast Wipe
C0030-4 - Green/SlateGrey - Power from Aux Relay
C0030-5 - Red/Green - Looks to be a speed control connection.

It's hard to tell to be honest, you'd really need to sit down with RAVE and the electrical circuit diagram and the operation description to make head or tail of it.

you need to replace multi function switch

Hello I have a saab 9.3 SS 04 and had the same problem.

- intermittent wipe doesn't work, at all
- windscreen washers don't work, at all
- "normal" continuous, and fast wipe work, but the wipers
freeze in the middle of the windscreen if you let go of the
control stalk, rather than sweeping back to the resting position
- same "freeze" happens with the manual wipe (push down on the control stalk)

The weird thing is that, this morning, for about 10 minutes, it seemed to fix itself,
partially - the washers started working etc - but the intermittent wipe still didn't work. However not long after that it went back to the symptoms described above.
also if I unplugged my car battery for a minute the washers worked for several seconds but again same problem occurs.

Solution is to replace your wiper motor. its that "simple"
worked for me. The wiper motor has a lot of electronic stuff and seems to control the washer engine.
Good luck.

Hello I have a saab 9.3 SS 04 and had the same problem.

- intermittent wipe doesn't work, at all
- windscreen washers don't work, at all
- "normal" continuous, and fast wipe work, but the wipers
freeze in the middle of the windscreen if you let go of the
control stalk, rather than sweeping back to the resting position
- same "freeze" happens with the manual wipe (push down on the control stalk)

The weird thing is that, this morning, for about 10 minutes, it seemed to fix itself,
partially - the washers started working etc - but the intermittent wipe still didn't work. However not long after that it went back to the symptoms described above.
also if I unplugged my car battery for a minute the washers worked for several seconds but again same problem occurs.

Solution is to replace your wiper motor. its that "simple"
worked for me. The wiper motor has a lot of electronic stuff and seems to control the washer engine.
Good luck.