We will try again in this article to help you to fix the small complications associated with your motor vehicle. We have recently seen how to unblock a fuel door, or a tank cap, in this article we will concentrate on an irritating problem that can be dangerous in bad climate conditions, being a victim of wiper stuck on Volkswagen Atlas . And to remedy this, we will first try to figure out why the wipers on your Volkswagen Atlas remain stuck and, secondly, how to unblock them.
Why does the wiper of my Volkswagen Atlas stay stuck?
So we will begin our article with the reasons of the stuck wipers of your Volkswagen Atlas . To begin with we will concentrate on the front wipers and in a second time on the rear wiper.
Why are the front wipers on my Volkswagen Atlas stuck in up or down position?
We will move through one at a time the different complications that can trigger the front wipers of your Volkswagen Atlas to get stuck :
- One of the most basic motives of front wipers getting stuck on your Volkswagen Atlas is associated with the engine that drives them, in reality, these engines can, with time, lose power, and eventually need to be changed. You should find out before the total blockage of your windshield wipers that they work much slower.
- Less basic, but it can still happen, is that your front wiper blades are blocked due to an object that prevents the blades from working, take a look up to the axis of the blades.
- If it is a lack of lubrication, you will discover that your front wipers are going slower, check fairly quickly the cause of the trouble or else the engines will be forced and damaged.
- It is possible that the front wipers of your Volkswagen Atlas may not operate due to a faulty comodo. To check this, you need to disconnect the output wires and connect them together, if the wipers are working, the comodo is to blame for the problem.
- Finally, last opportunity, the front wipers of your Volkswagen Atlas are blocked due to a power failure, so you will have to check two auto parts, the relay and the fuse.
Why is the rear window wiper on my Volkswagen Atlas stuck?
Concerning the stuck rear window wiper of your Volkswagen Atlas , the roots of your problems are more or less the same. Although there is only one wiper blade at the rear of your motor vehicle, there are still some dedicated auto parts that can trigger complications only on the rear windshield of your Volkswagen Atlas. So, make sure to conduct similar investigations as seen in the previous component of this article.
What can I do to unlock the wiper on my Volkswagen Atlas?
At last, for this second section, we will see what solutions are available to you to be sure that the wipers on your Volkswagen Atlas are unlocked and that they operate properly again.
How to unlock the wipers of my Volkswagen Atlas?
If it is for the front windshield wipers or the rear windshield wiper, the solutions will be similar and we will detail them one by one in this component, it is up to you to adapt them to the component that concerns you. If you have other blocking complications such as a fuel door stuck on Volkswagen Atlas, do not think twice to seek advice from our article on this problem.
- In this case, you will have to identify the engine, then disconnect the power cables of this one (take care there must be some of them associated with the different speeds of sweeping), then remove 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 Volkswagen Atlas
- In this scenario, it will be quite basic but expensive to replace your commodo, the component generally costs around 200€, once tested you will be able 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.
- Volkswagen Atlas wiper blocked caused by a power failure: In this last scenario, you will have to identify the source of the failure (fuse or relay) and replace the faulty component
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