Gillette1987

driving home on the freeway and its pouring where Im at right now, and the wipers quit working on me... checked the fuses and theyre all fine, the back hatch wiper works just fine, but not my fronts... I am clueless on what to check or fix... little help?

LCFRJEEP

If your fuses are good, then I would say your switch on the steering collumn is bad

Gillette1987

thats what i kind of figured... my steering column is loose and i planned to replace it anyways. has anyone else had a problem with a loose steering column?

1995Cherokee

Do you have low and hi only? and when you shut them off do they stay in the place they are at?

Gillette1987

no, i have the multiple option lever for mist, slow-middle-fast speed. and when i turn the wipers off they go all the way back to the bottom position where they normally start

owellwhatever

There's a relay at the bottom of the fuze box, try that. Could also be the motor. Mine were only working on high but just stopped.

If your blinkers and brights work, I'm guessing it's not the switch.

1995Cherokee

yea i have that too, except mine only work when its on low or hi. delay doesnt work and the wipers will not return to the bottom. they stay where i shut them off. I was wondering what could be the problem

Geck_87Laredo

Check this. It's a little silver box. This EXACT thing happened to me! Got off work and wipers did not work so i had to drive home in pouring rain with no wipers. My blinkers still worked though .Got home to find out i kicked the relay and broke it

Gillette1987

my turn signals and high beam switch works just fine... hmmmmm

owellwhatever

I'm pretty sure my motor is what died last weekend. Will try to grab both a relay and a motor at Pull A Part this weekend. Hopefully it's just the relay...

joelfett

If you can hear the motor run, and fuses and relay's good, the wiper arm plastic bushings might be shot. I had to replace mine last summer for my '92. Cheap parts, but tight work to get at them under the cowl. This might only apply to wipers that stop anywhere BUT the bottom of the windshield.....hope this helps...

Gillette1987

would be hard for me to "hear" the wiper motor running (if it works or not) cuz im hearing impaired, same for a my roomates... but i'll give it a shot

1995Cherokee

put your fingers on the base of the wiper arms. feel for a vib (obviously motor not running)