3 posts in Car Diagnostics blog about "wipers" — OBD-II diagnostics, DTC codes, repair. ← All posts
The sensor does not see rain. It measures how light reflects inside the windscreen, which explains almost everything about how it fails.
Blades that stop halfway up the glass instead of returning to the bottom point at one specific mechanism, and the fix is usually cheaper than the motor.
Two thirds of wiper problems are a fuse, a stripped spline, or a frozen pump. How to separate mechanical from electrical faults in a minute.