I have a 2000 Exp EB. With 77000 miles and everything works great. EXCEPT the wipers. When I bought it, from day one (39000 mi, 2003) the wipers always seemed slow when the rain hits hard.

It seems that even on the highest speed (the wipers not me), when passing a truck on a highway in a rain storm, the wipers just can't seem to go fast enough to remove the water from the windshield. I have owned 2 Ford lesiure vans that had great wipers, My Explorer wipers run like a bad boy.

In a bad rain, I have to pull over at times (rains storms that i should be able to drive through).

Anybody else experienced this? Or do I have the only EXPY with this problem?

Beadhead

 

i haven't noticed any issues, but we don't have too many bad rainstorms here in so. cal

is there a front wiper-motor? perhaps it's going bad.

al

 

The wipers go from stop to a decent back and forth speed, but they don't fly when you turn them on all the way. I think just about every car or truck I ever owned had this super high speed setting, except this expy.

Tonight I'll turn the wipers on (high speed) and check just how many times they go back and forth in a minute or perhaps 30 seconds. If someone else could give me their time as well I could do a comparision.

I never looked to see where the motor was at, I am assuming its mounted to the firewall. Not sure how to tell if its gone bad or not.

Conehead

 

You'll have to let us know how fast it is in 30 secs or so. Could be you're just used to faster wipers.

 

OK, I timed my expy wipers. From the dash to the side window and back to the dash is one cycle. My wipers on high speed make 34 cycles in in 30 seconds; that's 68 cycles a minute.

I guess that means the wiperblade crosses my eyeballs more than twice a second (that's pretty good).

I checked the wiper speed in my Explorer = 36 cycles in 30 seconds, just slightly faster.

I'm thinking that the expy wipers seem slower because of the large windshield surface area. That is a lot of glass to wipe clean during a heavy rain. Since no one else seems to have this problem, I'll just drive slower.

Beadhead