Land Rover Defender: Wipers and Washers - Component Location, Overview

COMPONENT LOCATION

COMPONENT LOCATION - 1 OF 2

NOTES:

• Right Hand Drive (RHD) vehicle is shown, Left Hand Drive (LHD) vehicle is similar.
• Vehicle with 5 doors is shown, vehicle with 3 doors is similar.

1. Rain/light sensor
2. Windshield wiper arm and blade (quantity 2)
3. Windshield wiper motor and linkage assembly
4. Windshield washer jet or heated windshield washer jet (quantity 2)
5. Washer jet - Rear proximity camera (if equipped)
6. Tailgate wiper arm and blade
7. Headlamp washer jet (quantity 2) (if equipped)
8. Tailgate washer jet
9. Tailgate wiper motor
10. Windshield washer reservoir

COMPONENT LOCATION - 2 OF 2

NOTE: RHD vehicle is shown, LHD vehicle is similar.

1. Windshield wiper control switch

OVERVIEW

The wipers and washers system functions on receipt of requests made by the driver or the rain/light sensor. All wiper functions for the front and rear wipers are controlled from the right steering column multifunction switch.

The wiper and washer system comprises:

• Windshield and tailgate wiper motors
• A windshield wiper linkage
• Windshield wiper arms and blades (quantity 2)
• Tailgate wiper arm and blade
• Windshield washer jets (quantity 2) or heated windshield washer jets (quantity 2) (if equipped)
• Headlamp washer jets (quantity 2) (if equipped)
• A washer jet - Rear proximity camera (if equipped)
• Tailgate washer jet
• Windshield washer reservoir
• Windshield wiper control switch
• Rain/light sensor.

The windshield wiper system has 5 wiper stages of operation:

• Flick wipe
• Slow wipe
• Fast wipe
• Windshield wash and wipe
• Automatic wipe.

The wiper system is equipped with a rain/light sensor which controls the automatic wiper functions and also the automatic lighting functions. The 'AUTO' function uses an output from the rain/light sensor to the Body Control Module (BCM)/ Gateway Control Module (GWM) on a Local Interconnect Network (LIN). The purpose is to provide automatic operation of the windshield wipers.

The tailgate wiper has 3 operational states:

• Tailgate wash and wipe
• Intermittent wipe
• Continuous wipe.

Tailgate wiper motor operation is suspended while the tailgate is open.

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