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Frazzell
02-24-2006, 11:23 PM
I lost my wipers in the middle of a blizzard last thurs., but after an hour with ign. off they came back to life. Is this common/recall? Anyone else have this problem?

Frazzell
02-24-2006, 11:23 PM
I lost my wipers in the middle of a blizzard last thurs., but after an hour with ign. off they came back to life. Is this common/recall? Anyone else have this problem?

Frazzell
02-24-2006, 11:26 PM
by the way H3 eats snow like no other

H3HUMVEE
02-24-2006, 11:50 PM
I have read that the H3 wiper motor has a circuit that kills power to the motor if your wiper blades gets stuck or frozen to the windshield .. this keeps your wiper motor from burning up .. I think you have to shut the truck off for a while and it will "reset".

f5fstop
02-25-2006, 11:51 AM
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by H3HUMVEE:
I have read that the H3 wiper motor has a circuit that kills power to the motor if your wiper blades gets stuck or frozen to the windshield .. this keeps your wiper motor from burning up .. I think you have to shut the truck off for a while and it will "reset". </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Correct, but not just the H3, almost all wipers have a built in circuit breaker that pops to prevent the motor from burning out. However, on a cold day it should only take a few minutes at the most.

hmrlvr
02-25-2006, 01:29 PM
whatever with the wipers, show us some pictures of the H3 "eating the snow" http://www.elcova.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Huck BB62
02-25-2006, 03:57 PM
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by frazzell:
I lost my wipers in the middle of a blizzard last thurs., but after an hour with ign. off they came back to life. Is this common/recall? Anyone else have this problem? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I was out playing in the snow last week, same thing happened to me. It only takes a minute for it to cool off and run again, H3 running or not. I never pulled over, just turned them off for a minute. I finally got out, scraped all the extra junk off around the wipers to take the load off, and all was well.

First Hummer
02-26-2006, 12:36 PM
I have to say whoever designed the the wiper setup with such deep wells for snow and ice to collect was not the brightest bulb on xmas tree.