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Old Jul 2, 2012
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Windshield Wiper

Ok so i woke up this morning and there was condensation on the outside of the car. I guess that it has rained pretty heavily last night. I go to turn on my windshield wiper and only the driver side wiper is working. The passenger side wiper is not even budging. When i tried moving the wiper by hand outside the car there seems to be no resistance on the passenger side wiper in comparison to the driver side wiper. Ideas?
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Re: Windshield Wiper

Its a 97 Civic LX
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Re: Windshield Wiper

Pop the cap/cover for the nut at the base of the wiper arm.

Tighten up the nut (dont go crazy) while the wiper is in parked position (like the working one)

See if that will solve it.
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Re: Windshield Wiper

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Pop the cap/cover for the nut at the base of the wiper arm.

Tighten up the nut (dont go crazy) while the wiper is in parked position (like the working one)

See if that will solve it.

sorry im a bit late on the response, that ended up happening is that the swingarm or however you may call it was stripped so i had to swap it out. works great now. Just having an overheating problem but i posted that in a new thread
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Re: Windshield Wiper

Thanks for posting the fix, likely the entire wiper arm.
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