We will try again in this article to help you to solve the small problems related to your car. We have not too long ago seen how to unblock a fuel door, or a tank cap, in this article we will focus on an irritating issue that can be dangerous in bad climate conditions, being a victim of wiper stuck on Subaru Legacy . And to correct this, we will first try to figure out why the wipers on your Subaru Legacy remain stuck and, secondly, how to unblock them.
Why does the wiper of my Subaru Legacy stay stuck?
So we will begin our content with the explanations of the stuck wipers of your Subaru Legacy . First of all we will focus on the front wipers and in a second time on the rear wiper.
Why are the front wipers on my Subaru Legacy stuck in up or down position?
We will proceed through one at a time the different problems that can trigger the front wipers of your Subaru Legacy to get stuck :
- One of the most general motives of front wipers getting stuck on your Subaru Legacy is related to the engine unit that drives them, in reality, these engines can, with time, lose power, and sooner or later need to be changed. You should find out before the total blockage of your windshield wipers that they work much slower.
- Less general, but it can still happen, is that your front wiper blades are blocked due to an object that prevents the blades from functioning, take a look up to the axis of the blades.
- If it is a lack of lubrication, you will locate that your front wipers are going slower, verify quickly the cause of the trouble or else the engines will be forced and damaged.
- It is possible that the front wipers of your Subaru Legacy may not work due to a faulty comodo. To check this, you need to disconnect the output wires and connect them together, if the wipers are functioning, the comodo is to blame for the problem.
- Finally, last possibility, the front wipers of your Subaru Legacy are blocked due to a power failure, so you will have to verify two parts, the relay and the fuse.
Why is the rear window wiper on my Subaru Legacy stuck?
Concerning the stuck rear window wiper of your Subaru Legacy , the origins of your complications are more or less the same. Nevertheless there is only one wiper blade at the rear of your car, there are still some dedicated parts that can trigger problems only on the rear windshield of your Subaru Legacy. So, make sure you accomplish similar checks as seen in the previous part of this content.
What can I do to unlock the wiper on my Subaru Legacy?
At last, for this second part, we will see what solutions are available to you to ensure that the wipers on your Subaru Legacy are unlocked and that they work properly again.
How to unlock the wipers of my Subaru Legacy?
If it is for the front windshield wipers or the rear windshield wiper, the solutions will be similar and we will detail them one after the other in this part, it is up to you to adapt them to the part that concerns you. If you have other blocking problems such as a fuel door stuck on Subaru Legacy, do not think twice to seek advice from our article on this issue.
- In such a case, you will have to identify the engine unit, then disconnect the power cables of this one (be careful there must be several of them related to the different speeds of sweeping), then take out the brushes and the linkage. At last, you will have to unscrew these anchoring points which are generally fixed on silentblocks and reassemble a new wiper motor on your Subaru Legacy
- In this scenario, it will be quite very easy but expensive to change your commodo, the part generally costs around 200€, once tested you will have the ability to disassemble your commodo by removing the cover from the back of the steering wheel then disconnecting it and removing it with the fixing screws, you will just have to reassemble the new one.
- Subaru Legacy wiper blocked because of a power failure: In this last scenario, you will have to identify the source of the failure (fuse or relay) and replace the faulty part
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