wipper blader

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KRISTIELEEK
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the other day my windshield wipper bladed stopped working all the sudden, you can hear that it is not the motor bacause it still tries to work and can hear it running. The blades just are not lifting up any ideas of what may be wrong
Oct 2, 2011 at 12:47 PM
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FIXITMR
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motor may have disengaged from wiper mechanism at joint or maybe stripped it's gears internally?
Oct 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM
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KRISTIELEEK
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is that something easy to fix, and is it expensive.
Oct 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM
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FIXITMR
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cant answer that exactly cause too many variables including what you consider expensive and where you get it fixed or fix yourself.
Oct 2, 2011 at 6:38 PM
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CADIEMAN
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check the wiper transmition.grab the blades and move them back and forth watching the wiper trans.
Oct 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM
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