Windshield wipers come on by themselves
 

I have a 2001 Corvette C5 48,000 miles, all of a sudden today the wiper blades comes on by themselves jump up in the air and fall back down on the windshield while driving, anyone else had the same issue?

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has the car been in the rain or washed not toolong ago

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Yes it was washed yesterday and for two days before that we had rain

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make sure your utters are clear,i think there are 3 ,all under wipermotor.snake your hand around the brake booster .ya have water in the wiper module ,its bolted to wiper motor underneath. you can hope that it will dry out or you can pull the whole thing out and dry it out.to test it the right way you should undo elect. jack under steering col. and see if it happens again.if it does the switch is okay.if you pull the wipermotor DONOT remove the center torx bolt on wiper arm

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Ok, I will try that over the weekend, thanks, I will be sure to post the results.

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I could not locate the term "utters" in my book, would they just beneath the cowling under the windshield wipers?

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yes. ya gadda snake yer arm around booster but basicly they are under wiper motor.look for wiperwasher tanks elect. connector ,one utter is 6 inchs to the rear

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Ok I found them and they were filled with junk, that I hope will be the problem, thanks.

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well it aint gonna fix the problem just stop it from occuring again,you may still have to pull motor assembly and remove module to dry out

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Well I found two cleaned them out replaced them now the wipers don't work at all, but maybe that's a good sign, maybe it is the switch.

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i doubt it but ya never know. check fuses first

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Well we have not had any rain and I did wash the car now for three days, I tried the wipers yesterday and today and so far so good, they come on thru all the different cycles and speeds and they go down ok and when I turn them off , I wait 8 minutes with the car running and they don't come back on, I just wonder if they next time I am in heavy rain, which I don't normally drive this car in but sometimes you get stuck are they going to work or will they do I fast one on me because of water? I guess only time will tell. Thanks

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Same problem on my 2002 Corvette with w/s wipers intermittently coming on. Initially, it occurred with I was pressing a driver information center button and was accidently brush the w/s control arm with my arm. The wipers would cycle 2-3 times and then park. Eventually, they simply came on one day (didn't brush the control arm) and they wouldn't go off. Dealership replaced the w/s control arm due to an internal short and that fixed the problem.

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Well so far so good, we had rain two times this week drove over 50 miles in it ands no problems, every speed worked fine.

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Well the wipers started working again, so far so good, no more problems, works on all speeds.