Wiper Heating Element

How hot is it supposed to get? The other night it was snowing so I turned on my wiper heating element in conjunction with my defroster. I have set my wiper heating element to be on continuously. The problem is my wipers were icing up a lot. I had to keep using wiper fluid to melt the ice. I stopped at a gas station to gas up, and while I was done I stayed put and left the element on, quite frankly it doesnt get very warm. To be honest, I think I can piss wamer than that thing gets.

That seems pretty weird to me. Mine work really well. As a matter of fact I don't think I've used the defroster to help melt the ice, the wipers seem warm enough to take care of it themselves. Maybe your element isn't working right??

Mine works, but I find it useless. It make the wipers work better, however, the melted ice drips below the element and re-freezes. That bulids up then the wipers dont' go all the way to their rest position. Very annoying in heavy snow.

 

It sounds like yours isn't getting very warm. I would imagine it gets as hot as the rear dfroster elements.

I think your pi$$ is real close to 98.6 degrees when it leaves your body. I doubt that that defroster element would heat the glass that high. Plus there is no need to as ice melts at 32 degrees.

Carter - it just seems like you have a TON of problems going on with this car.

Mine sucks too.

Mine too. Same storm as Carter as well. Kept having to do the "left hand out the window thumb wiper flick" thing.

Get winter wiper blades.

Do all LGTs have a wiper heat element?

Get winter wiper blades.

 

That would not matter as the ice was forming on the blades themselves, not the springs.

Mine too. Same storm as Carter as well. Kept having to do the "left hand out the window thumb wiper flick" thing.

I'm glad I'm not alone.

I would imagine it gets as hot as the rear dfroster elements.

 

My rear dfroster take 10 mins to "warm up" and let me see a tiny line on my rear glass. Does anyone know is the tint make it slow or it suck that bad? My corolla work very good, but it does not have tinted window.

I put the internal defrost on MAX and that seems to work. I haven't been in a major ice storm but it seems to melt large amounts of ice off of my windshield once the car warms up...

Get winter wiper blades.

 

I have Valeo ULTIMATE Wiper Blades and according to them I can expect:

 

•All-weather/winter design offers resistance to cold weather conditions, no icing (metal parts perform better over the plastic parts used in other wiper blade designs)

I have had issue with our wipers on several counts. They don't always park all the way at the bottom, they build up ice in the park position and along the left edge of the windshield.

 

Regarding the effectiveness of the heater elements, I think the ice buildup on the back side of the blade is what keeps it from making good contact with the windshield. A blade like the valeo ultimate looks like it would be less susceptible to this problem.

i touched mine the other day and it was pretty hot. my windshield has been replaced twice. so the heating element on the new is actaully black. but mine was hot and melted the ice off my wipers realy good

i have Bosch Icons, and they seem ok work pretty good in all this crap weather we have been getting in Iowa. last Thursday I was out in the middle of a snow storm, and I noticed that my wipers were stating to get some build up on them. I then realized that hadn't even turned the de-icer on yet, and when I did they cleared right up!

I have had issue with our wipers on several counts. They don't always park all the way at the bottom, they build up ice in the park position and along the left edge of the windshield.

 

Regarding the effectiveness of the heater elements, I think the ice buildup on the back side of the blade is what keeps it from making good contact with the windshield. A blade like the valeo ultimate looks like it would be less susceptible to this problem.

 

 

I couldn't agree more. I actually think the windshield de icer makes it worse since it melts and re freezes.. That is in a real bad storm. I always thought the de icer would prevent me from having to stop and remove ice and snow..

 

Anyway, if I do buy my car in a few months I am going with the Valeo. The dealer just changed mine under warranty. I asked why all Subies had sucky wipers. He said they just keep changing them under warranty and hopefully Subie gets the idea. My Audi wipers never froze once in 3 years. Of course the rest of the car, that's another story...........

Funny that this just came up. We just had an ice storm here, and I can attest that on my '05, the wiper heat element doesn't do anything.

 

Now getting out of the car, and banging the wiper blade against the glass--that works!

Funny that this just came up. We just had an ice storm here, and I can attest that on my '05, the wiper heat element doesn't do anything.

 

Now getting out of the car, and banging the wiper blade against the glass--that works!

It can also break your windshield.

Are there other options for removing ice, like new washer nozzles would be nice, stock ones suck, or those kits that acutally heat your wiper blades.

^ We had some snow in these parts and I thought the de-icer worked great (like it has in the past). Effective gadget, IMHO. Keeping the defrost on in conjunction helps. Turn the AC off if you don't want to run it.

Hve you disabled your DRL's? I'm not sure if this post has any truth to it (from the DRL Disable in 10 Minutes thread): http://www.legacygt.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1542813&postcount=329. Is there anyone else able to confirm that?

My DRL's are unplugged. I used the deicer the last few days and seemed like it was at least doing something. I will look closely tomorrow morning.

Never did the visual inspection but I did take a look at the schematic and it appears that the white connector is in fact B96 from the "In Compartment - Bulkhead Wiring Harness" pin 1-5, 8 are all called out on the headlight diagram and nothing from the wiper deicer diagram shows the same connector. I think this myth is busted.