ok. the other day my passenger wiper blade just stopped moving. its sitting down at the bottom of the window and sometimes when i turn the wipers on that one twitches but doesnt go anywhere. the driver side works fine but i have to move it down sometimes because it like to go off the side of the vehicle.. ummm... whats wrong with it? lol. has it lost all hope and given up on life? and how do i fix it? any help is appreciated. thanks!

 

Most likely it just has to be tightned down. There's a splined shaft that the wiper rides on and has a nut or bolt (I forget which) which hold it on the shaft. Just tighted that down and hopefully thats all it is. My roomates 95 accent has it happen every once and a while. If that isn't the problem, it's probably the linkaget from the motor.

 

What Supry said.
Tighten her down, if not, your wiper linkage is messed. They're not that hard to replace, but it's like $70

 

The "twiching" you see is basically the "spline", as supry called it, tightening and loosening itself.

This happens alot when you leave your wipers on accidentally over night. Then when you come out in the morning and start your car with like 5+" snow on it, or if the wipers are frozen to the windsheild, they don't move forward but the "spline", will go backwards loosening the bolt. Just tighten it and you'll be fine.

 

70.... should i just buy a new car? that is a lot of money to fix some damn windsheild wipers.

 

Are you insane? Buy a new car because your wiper isn't working? Fix the damned thing doode.

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JUST BE CAREFUL WITH THE WIPER my friend who is car illiterate tried to change my wiper blade and he broke the arm completly off. so i just have one wiper now i have grown accustomed to it but you splines inside the wiper could be stripped too thats what my friends accent did.

 

redz.. i was kidding. i'll trade it in. but seriously. where is this bolt at? and its really funny you say that. because that is EXACTLY what happened. lol. there was snow on my windshield and it started twitching after i cleared the snow off..

 

Here's what you need to do mang.

On the end of your wiper arm, where it meets the car, flip up the cap. There should be a nut under there. Take it off, then remove the arm.

Look inside the arm where it connects and see if it's stripped to hell. If it is, replace the arm.

Look at the splined shaft that the arm attached to, if it's stripped, replace the shaft.

It's not hard, I've done it on my excel before.

 

this happens to my tib from time to time.. just do as REDZ sayz and you will be fine. Even if it looks stripped though, you might be able to just tighten it down.