NablaOperator
Novice Member
The first 3 snowy winter days (-5 degrees Celsius) in the MG ZS EV and I got stranded because the windscreenwhipers have had enough of it. They became harder to rev and they objected during a 10 kilometer trip by raising their voice.
When cleaning the windshield-whiper-gutter from snow a lot of hard rock ice came out. I needed an icepick to break and manouvre the approx. 1 liter of hard dense ice to come out of the gutter. The shafts of the two windscreen whipers where tight frozen in their (near) rest-position. No wonder they stopped.
After opening the bonnet you find the canals and exit hole for the rain water. There is an exit to this gutter yes, but all is rock hard frozen. Because it is freezing outside. Why is this a new problem to me?
I.C. cars don’t have this problem, because the 20kW heat loss heats up that gutter while being in the way for the warm engine-air to the exit which is the outside of the windshield. MG ZS was designed to be a hybrid. The hybrid will have a heated windscreen whiper gutter.... Is the EV crappy design? In 40 years, including 8 years of Nissan Leaf I have never had to clean the car from ice as I did today.
Windscreen whipers still don’t work (anymore) and it is not due to a broken fuse. They stopped functioning when they were not able anymore to reach the (blocked) end (stop) position. Placing the fuse back is the solution. Or try placing the fuse back while 12V power is on.
All OK now.
When cleaning the windshield-whiper-gutter from snow a lot of hard rock ice came out. I needed an icepick to break and manouvre the approx. 1 liter of hard dense ice to come out of the gutter. The shafts of the two windscreen whipers where tight frozen in their (near) rest-position. No wonder they stopped.
After opening the bonnet you find the canals and exit hole for the rain water. There is an exit to this gutter yes, but all is rock hard frozen. Because it is freezing outside. Why is this a new problem to me?
I.C. cars don’t have this problem, because the 20kW heat loss heats up that gutter while being in the way for the warm engine-air to the exit which is the outside of the windshield. MG ZS was designed to be a hybrid. The hybrid will have a heated windscreen whiper gutter.... Is the EV crappy design? In 40 years, including 8 years of Nissan Leaf I have never had to clean the car from ice as I did today.
Windscreen whipers still don’t work (anymore) and it is not due to a broken fuse. They stopped functioning when they were not able anymore to reach the (blocked) end (stop) position. Placing the fuse back is the solution. Or try placing the fuse back while 12V power is on.
All OK now.
