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I turned the wiper switch to the low setting. After a while they stopped in mid-sweep across the windshield. Turning the switch to the high speed got them moving again. Moved the switch back to low and they worked fine for a while, then stopped again part way through a sweep. Turned the wiper switch to off and they kept running.
There is no discernible pattern to the problem. Wiggling the switch does not change what is happening with the wipers. The only way to get them moving when they are stopped is to step through the switch positions multiple times. Conversely, the only way to stop them when they are running is to step through the switch positions multiple times.
I had a similar problem with an F-150 and solved it by changing out the wiper switch/ stalk.
1. Do y'all think it is the wiper switch in my HHR causing this similar problem?
2. Is this switch easy too replace?
Here is one for the HHR; it is a bit different getting to the switch, after that it is pretty much the same. This guy is crazy, I guess he didn't know the steering column is adjustable.
Re: "This guy is crazy, I guess he didn't know the steering column is adjustable." Maybe I will remove the instrument cluster bezel, too. After all, what's the fun if you can't take a simple job and make it difficult?
Re: "its an easy switch to switch." How much wood, does a woodchuck chuck...
The part has been ordered and I will post back on the ease of installation and the end result.
Fwiw. The wipers on my old Dodge truck had the same symptoms you described in post #1. It took a new wiper motor to fix mine after "trying" a new switch.
Could be a dead spot on the motor (there are multiple windings in the motor usually) and if it happens to go slowly through the dead spot it stops. Maybe that's why there is no pattern.
A bad BCM is less likely than the motor. I would expect the wipers to be dead completely if the BCM was bad (burned out output driver for the wiper motor).
