So they will come on, and go off, but there's no intermittent anymore and when they turn off it's seemingly or somewhat random... I think they actually stop a little further along each time in the cycle so eventually you can get them back all the way down but you have to bump the stick up for whats supposed to be that quick wipe and then it goes for a few moments and stops and repeat until it stops where it's supposed too. I at first thought the switch on the steering column had gone bad but on every car I have had that happen to, it's usually a working or not working thing not a partial... so is this in the motor itself perhaps?

 

Could be the motor but I think you'd see the effect of that when the wipers are on full time. Do you? My money is on the switch being either dirty or worn out.

 

What do you mean? When on full time, they're just cycling normally. Now when I turn them off from full time, yeah they stop just wherever and I have to keep cycling until they stop at the bottom.

 

Wasn't the way it read to me, sorry.

There's the motor, there's the linkage to the wipers themselves, there's the switch. Not a lot to look at and diagnose and you're seeing more of what it does than we can.

 

Judging from the wiring diagram, the Fit wiper motor still uses the old-school contact-wheel method of park-control. That is, there's a rotating electrical contact (attached to the output shaft) in the wiper motor housing that slides over a "run" portion of the wheel while it's in the glass-wiping part of its cycle, then hits a narrow "park" portion (which is connected to electrical ground) when the wipers are at the bottom of their cycle. The wiper controls (MICU/BCM in the dash fuse box) use the signal from that rotating contact to control the wiper motor. If the rotating contact (or wheel) is dirty or damaged, strange behavior (wiper never stops, or parks wherever) can result.

 

This forum needs a like button.

I suppose over the holidays I'll try to take the motor out and disassemble it and look inside for anything I can clean up, before buying one just to maybe confirm.