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Another Hershey Trip Anomaly Resolved
I spent an hour this evening resolving another anomaly with my SC following the Saturday trip to Hershey. Funny what you learn driving in the rain.
On the way up, north of Baltimore, I lost my intermittent wiper control. No biggie, but I was having fun screwing around with getting just the right interval set. That and playing with the cruise control and periodically tuning that oh-so-'80s Blaupunkt was filling the trip time nicely. After I lost the intermittent, the wipers would no longer properly park without some fiddling. After doing some searching here, I learned the trouble is usually dirty contacts in the wiper switch. So this evening, I removed the steering wheel and the column cover and cleaned up the switch. Voila! Back in business and with a bonus: My windshield washer pump is working now. I haven't had the pump operating since I got my car (that fix was on the to-do list). Bottom line: I just completed one more task on the sorting list. Brian |
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Good job Brian, Water will do some funky shift with Porsche electrics. Sounds like the washer pump contacts had some built up soot on the contacts eh?
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04-25-2006, 04:09 AM
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The Hershey trip highlighted another problem for me also. When we got in the car at the hotel at 7:00am Saturday morning, we found two mini rs carpet lined swimming pools where the rear seat bottoms used to live.
It appears that my new rear window seal install when I did my headliner is not up to code! We drove for at least an hour on the way home in a driving rain (Avons are pretty decent in light rain, but 1/2" deep puddles at 80 mph... not so much!) before the heater could over come the sopping wet interior and we could actually see out of the windshield with out constantly wiping it with a "courtesy" Chocolatetown motel towel! Looks like the seal will have to be looked into soon (not that I want to drive the SC in a downpour again!).
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Tim, you're living my fears about leaks, which -- knock on wood -- didn't materialize. I hope you get your aquarium issues resolved.
 Another Hershey-trip experience: On 95 between Baltimore and Washington on the trip back I decided to push the intensive (headlight) washer button just to see what it would do. Heck, that button's been begging to be pushed for two hours up and now one hour on the way back. When I pushed the button, I saw a jet of water from the right front of the car go shooting off hard right onto the driver's door of a Kenworth I was running alongside. Ha, got 'im! Guess I need to slightly adjust the aim on that right squirter. Brian Last edited by 1982911SCTarga; 04-25-2006 at 07:23 AM.. |
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