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Car Forum / Saab Cars / November 2006C900 Rear Wash Wipe
Grrrr. Stopped working, just when I finally get the wash fluid pumping through the wiper goes flaky! I hit the button on the dash and the wiper swings up across the screen but wont come back. There is a whirring noise coming from the unit. If I get out and push it (the wiper that is!) it will travel back to the rest position. My guess is something in the gear arrangement inside the unit is stripped, broken or hopefully just come loose. My beloved Bentley manual is silent on the rear wash wiper as far as I can see. Anyone got any tips for removal and dismantling please? I tried phoning a guy on ebay about this item:- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/saab-900-turbo-for-spares_W0QQitemZ180036537021QQihZ008QQc ategoryZ10416QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem As it has a spare unit. But he wants £200!! I think I can manage without if it comes to that! Al > Grrrr. Stopped working, just when I finally get the wash fluid pumping > through the wiper goes flaky! [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > As it has a spare unit. But he wants £200!! I think I can manage without > if it comes to that! Ah mate, bad news. Sorry I can't help, but I know Aeromotive will have a nice covering plug if you want to remove it :) I'm going the other way ... From no wiper to having one ... If I can find a mechanism at a reasonable cost :( Good luck with your search. Have you tried UK SAABs? There is certainly one person having a parts clear out at the moment. You might get lucky. Drop a wanted on and see how you go. Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ > I tried phoning a guy on ebay about this item:- > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > As it has a spare unit. But he wants £200!! I think I can manage without > if it comes to that! Actually, at that price I might have a more suitable alternative. On Canal Road in Bradford (the A650 ... You know ... From Wakefield), past Khan's Alloys (where the two Rolls Royce Phantoms are parked up :) ) on the left just before the 4x4 Centre and Arnold Laver warehouse, there's a back street garage that does tyres and another that does stainless exhausts. One or the other of them is selling a J reg 900i in green (five door) no bodykit, but it has a rear wiper. They want 395 quid for it. Remove the mechanism and re-sell the car :) It's a good'un with very nice, well kept velour interior. Nothing at all special about the car, but it is a good runner. I had a look over it for a friend. Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ >> I tried phoning a guy on ebay about this item:- >> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > 1989 900 Turbo S > http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ Nice, Aeromotive had one but it wasn't working either. I was hoping someone out there might know how easy/difficult they are to disassemble? Cheers Al Older Ford Tauruses (Tauresi??) have a similar style rear windshield wiper (through the glass.) You might want to try using one of those units from a junker. JB > Grrrr. Stopped working, just when I finally get the wash fluid pumping > through the wiper goes flaky! [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Al Jeremy, I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less readily available in the UK than Saab 900's! To be honest I was looking for anyone who may have taken one apart. i.e. does it fall to a hundred springs and cogs the moment you take the cover off or is it relatively simple inside the box. Cheers Al > Older Ford Tauruses (Tauresi??) have a similar style rear windshield wiper > (through the glass.) You might want to try using one of those units from a [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> >> Al >Jeremy, > I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less readily >available in the UK than Saab 900's! While you're at it, you could tell us what a "C900" is. . . GF >>Jeremy, >> I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less readily >>available in the UK than Saab 900's! > > While you're at it, you could tell us what a "C900" is. . . It's been used on this group a few million times to mean "classic 900". >>>Jeremy, >>> I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less readily [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >It's been used on this group a few million times to mean "classic 900". Sorry - not here all that often. I was thinking "cabrio" which really complicates the rear wiper issue! GF >>>> Jeremy, >>>> I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less readily [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Sorry - not here all that often. > I was thinking "cabrio" which really complicates the rear wiper issue! Sometimes, a 900C is referred to, which was a badging for (late) carburetted C900s. So I suppose that is a C900C :) Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ >>>>Jeremy, >>>> I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > GF Rear wash wipe on a ragtop would be complicated I'll give you that! Al >> GF >> >Rear wash wipe on a ragtop would be complicated I'll give you that! We have to be carefule on these "rear-wiping" threads - things could easily degrade! GF Quick update:- It just started working again, so I never even got round to trying to take it apart. Though it didn't look that difficult from the outside. Cheers Al > Quick update:- > > It just started working again, so I never even got round to trying to > take it apart. Though it didn't look that difficult from the outside. Yay! Is it the torrential rain we're having that's completed the ground? :) Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ >> Quick update:- >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > 1989 900 Turbo S > http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ If only it were that simple! Arm was travelling to top and stopping there, but you could still hear the motor running and a push on the blade would assist it's travel back down. Phil suggested a bad connection, but I'm not convinced. Having said that, I'm a Highway Structures engineer not a motor mechanic! I'll take it apart when it fails completely.... |
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