My Sharan 19tdi has lost power to wipers and blower

Tiny
RAVEN2UK
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  • 1996 VOLKSWAGEN SHARAN
  • 1.9L
  • TURBO
  • MANUAL
  • 230,000 MILES
My sharan has lost power to both sets of wipers and to the blower. It comes and goes but it has got gradually worse. Everything else seems fine as far as I can tell. Everything seemed ok when I got in to the car. But due to the rain I almost crashed as it just gave out. The blower will work sometimes and then out of the blue it will just stop.
Thursday, December 19th, 2013 AT 11:54 AM

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Tiny
EXOVCDS
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  • 1,883 POSTS
Check the Ignition switch ``load reduction`` circuit. Could be that the load reduction relay is not getting power from the ignition switch or the relay itself is bad.

Thomas
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Friday, December 20th, 2013 AT 3:31 PM
Tiny
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After doing a lot of looking at several relays etc and being sold the wrong bits took it to the garage as my bonnet also got stuck. It was sent back after 2 days as I had said I had a budget and wanted a quote first, he said he didn't want to dint the bonnet as he would have to wrench it open. So said I would take it home and think of the next course of action. I let my son have a look and with an hour he had the bonnet open with the help of his brother and we all got our heads together and with some jiggling a bout of relays found it to be relay 18, was told it was allsorts and vw dealers didn't have a clue. If this helps anyone with the same problem it is the relay 18 above the fuse box, said as we found out as we went to a scrap yard to try and get the relay but only had petrols in and couldn't find the relays anywhere, the scrap man had not clue either
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014 AT 5:48 AM

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