One wiper arm not working

In the future to save yourself some hassle, lift your wiper arms up at night before it snows or if it will be a cold night leaving ice on the windshield. If nothing else, it will also prevent tearing or bending of the wiper blades, let alone save the wear and tear on your wiper assembly. Also, it makes it easier in the AM to clean the snow and scrape the ice off the window.

 

This is a simple yet very useful trick.

 

Yeah I see a lot of the neighbors doing that, but I have just one concern with it. Would it weaken the spring, resulting in the wipers having less downward pressure on the windshield when lowered again? That's the only thing that's stopped me from doing this.

 

Mine's an 06, and I've had it for 5 years now. No issues with downward pressure on the blades. Also, when you're driving, there's downward pressure anyhow.

Better to worry about that and have no issues than to have wiper linkages/blades/arms/motors fail due to ice and snow.

 

True.
Anyway dealership called. It isn't the splines that gave out. Some other part but I didn't quite get it (over the phone). Will find out more when I pick up the truck. Service Tech did say that it should not have happened anyway. Splines should have stripped, or wiper should have freed before part failure. Defective. Covered under warranty.

 

Just curious what the end result here was?

 

Not sure what part of nl you’re in but in St. John’s my truck was an icicle this morning lol

Edit: just realized this is from 2015 lmao

 

Sorry but that’s a terrible idea in anywhere that gets more than a breath of wind at night. If that comes down at the wrong angle you’re gonna have more than frozen wipers to worry about

 

That's gonna be one hell if a wind storm to flip those wipers back down.

Sorry, I call bull shit.

 

Hey man, nobody here does it for that exact reason, I’ve storms and all you never see the wipers up

 

I've screwed up many times and have turned on wipers which were frozen to the glass in various vehicles over 30+ years of driving. I'm sure all drivers have done this that live where it freezes. I've had no issue; it stalls the motor, you turn off the car and free them up and go on with life. This should certainly be covered by warranty. Now if he burned out the motor, then no.