Wiper Motor Replacement

[Sheldon]

Hello,

Has anyone had to have their wiper motor replaced? And if so, were you able to do it yourself.

My wiper motor broke away from its mountings on my 1998 GT3. The first symptom was the loud slapping noise the wiper blade made as it came down onto the rubber rest (I thought that this was an Esprit foilble for a year!). The next problem was the wiper arm catching the windscreen causing me to replace the windscreen. The final problem was when my wiper motor broke down in the pouring rain whilst driving on the motorway (a bit scary!)

The S4s/V8 manual shows the wiper motor unit being on the opposite side to the driver. We found we could put our hand on it blindly by feeling from underneath the glove box, or by taking out the front speaker and putting a hand through the hole.

I got it repaired by Pat Thomas at Keveldon motors and it is great now, but even Pat said that it is one of the hardest jobs in his 35 years of repairing Lotus cars. He mentioned that the wiper motor was put into the car before the two halves were joined together!

I would be interested to know if anyone has had similar experiences.

Thanks!

Mark.

[sanj]

I would be interested to know if anyone has had similar experiences.

Not yet, but I'm soon going to, as the motor in my '90 SE seems to be in itd death throes.