Front Windshield wiper will not stop after tint

Did you have the windshield tinted? Why?

 

That is good. Now the riddle makes less sense though.

 

Is the screen dirty - my wipers turn on if there's just a trace of mist on the screen - but they have to be in the "AUTO" position first.

 

My guess would be: if you take the time on your own to track the problem down (wiring diagram helps), you might eventually find the exact spot where some wiring got damaged, a connector improperly reconnected, or the like, and after finding that exact spot, you might be able to think about why they would have been near that spot on a tint job, and then you could come up with a respectable theory of what happened.

I'd also guess that if you just take it back to them to fix, they'll probably fix, but probably never give you the straight story on whatever they figure out they did.

I don't have a Gen 4 wiring diagram. You might want to check in it to see whether the wiper's actually controlled by the Body ECU (that is, is the wiper switch on the column just an input to the ECU, with the ECU responsible for driving the wiper relays/motors?). If that's the case, you might get an improvement if you interrupt the 12 volt supply for a bit, just to get the ECU to reboot. Maybe in doing the work they created some brief electrical glitch that confused it.

-Chap

 

Looks like alanclarkeau is from down under, and would say windscreen where we say windshield.

I didn't think of that? Does your model have the auto, rain-sensing wipers?

Could the tint shop have left some conductive material over wherever the rain sensing element happens to be?

To be honest, I don't know exactly how the rain sensing is supposed to work: whether it's just electrical conductivity, or some other way of detecting. The New Car Features Manual is where such things get explained.

-Chap

 

sorry - windscreen/windshield.

From watching a car (years ago) being tinted, the only electrical items which, that time, were interfered with were the door panels - with window and mirror switches, and the rear window, where they unplugged the heater element while they were tinting the rear screen, and re-plugged the terminals in. It could be worth checking that they've been reconnected - and that the rear window heater works.

 

I'm having this issue now after the tint shop says they drained my brand new battery today putting tint all around. What file fixed your issue?

 

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