I was driving to work last week when it started raining, when I turned the wipers on, they worked for about thirty seconds and stopped working in the middle of a heavy down pour. Took the car in to the dealership for warranty repair and the service advisor told me he has seen several Tl's with this problem. Just wondering if any of you have had such a problem.

 

What year, model (Navi or Non-Navi), when purchased and miles?

 

'04 automatic, non navigation, bought new, now has 28,000 miles

 

I drive so fast in the TL, the water just sheets off!

 

Michael Benz had the same problem. It was the wiper motor assembly. They replaced it for him under warranty and it is working for him now.

 

funny thing, i just noticed mine aren't working now either...i have an '04 automatic, non-navi with 49,350 miles...they were working not too long ago...recently i washed it and lifted up the wipers to dry underneath them....could i have bumped something that would cause them to stop working? ....damn i hate taking my car into the dealership....

 

happend to mine about 6mos ago... it was a fuse..

 

my problem was the wiper motor assembly as well...good to go now...

 

same here

 

Noticed mine had stopped working this morning - last used about a week ago. '04 TL, Navi, AT. 45,900 miles. Classic Acura/United Auto Turnersville is the next stop tomorrow morning.

Greg
South Jersey

 

Wow! WTF Acura? That is a hazard. I'm glad nothing happened to you when your wipers went.

I love how Acura left quality control to the consumers with the TL. Terrible.

 

For those TL owners that experienced the failed wiper motor, log it with the US NHTSA.

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/pr...aintsearch.cfm

Definitely, the wiper motor should not be going-out on a car that is only 1 or 2 years old. This is a safety issue.

Acura needs to recall or at minimum, a TSB on the wiper motors.

 

I coudn't agree more. I've not experienced it but seen enough posts about others that have had the problem. Serioulsy, wiper failure while driving in rain is no joke. Log your failures.

 

I had a similar issue back in February. My Wipers, Seat memory and side mirrors failed... Spitzer Acura found that the fuses were blown and ended up replacing the seat memory unit, the main fuse box and some fuses. There is a SB in the 3G Garage SB-05-033

 

Hello cullal,

I had the same TSB b05-033 performed on my 05 Navi TL. For those that do not know what is TSB b05-033, the issue is if your windshield washer fluid is frozen and you attempt to use the washer fluid, this can cause the the windshield washer motor to temporarily overload and blow fuse No. 20 in the under-dash fuse/relay box for all 04 and some 05 TL models.

This will effect the power mirrors, the inside auto dimming mirror, the power seat position memory, and the windshield washer do not work. The dealership will replace the 7.5A with 10A fuse. I noticed in the owner's manual for the 06 TL models that fuse No. 20 is 15A.

The new problem people are reporting on this forum are their wiper motors failed and the dealership had to replace the wiper motor.

 

I had a similar problem in the first year of ownership of my 2004 TL. My dealer replaced the wiper motor, no problem at all. My guess is that there was a problem with Acura's supplier.

 

They fixed my wipers cause my fuse was broken but that was like 6 months ago, and now it starts to happen again! lol.. dangit, does acura still cover for that?
~Jason

 

Yes, if the car is still under warranty.

 

Nice TSB fix...

Replace 7.5A fuse with 10A fuse.

Im old... "stick a penny in the socket, it won't blow another"...

 

The wiper motor is covered under warranty. I've had to replace a few at my dealership already.

 

they told me that it's not there fault cause i installed after market subs and alarm so there like we can't cover cause it's not our fault, so i got pissed and told them to fix it or i'll report them to the federal buss. bureau. hahha, so they started to fix it right away lol..
~Jason

 

same thing happened to me 3 weeks ago, my sprayer would work but not my wipers. i was in san antonio at this time and i took it into GUNN acura and they took about an hour and replaced my motors and it was under warranty so no biggie

 

Thanks for this tip. My wipers always work but the fluid has not worked since late winter. I guess if the power mirrrors don't work, its definitely just this fuse. Changing a fuse is my kind of DIY!

 

Here's a TSB for ya:

http://www.in.honda.com/Rjanisis/pubs/SB/b08-013.pdf