For the guy with the Venture minivan, the wiper motor is still good. The issue is the wiper motor transmission that is attached to the wiper motor. The transmission is what "Parks" the wiper blades. Here where I live, I can purchase a wiper transmission for about $60.00. The labor to install though, I couldn't guess. It is designed to break if the load on the wiper motor is above what it should be (not cleaning the snow off a windshield or not unsticking the wiper blades from the windshield before using the wipers.).

I regularly enjoy your show. I hear you on KNAU in Flagstaff, AZ as I leave church on Sunday morning. However your show really crossed the line when you not only implied but stated very clearly that you thought the original owners of the Corolla in question were naive when they had asked a Toyota mechanic to try to retrieve the diamond ring that was dumped into the defroster slots on the car. As you put it no mechanic would ever have returned the ring once found unless the owner of the car stayed right beside the mechanic as he did his work. As the son of a highly regarded mechanic and car dealer in northern Minnesota it is inconceivable that my father or any of the men who worked for him would ever be so dishonest nor capable of such theft. In my experience in Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and Arizona I have never had any experience that would substantiate your demeaning claims about auto mechanics. I have found them to be knowledgeable technicians and willing to go to great difficulties to service my autos. For you, as fellow mechanics (if that is what you are) to denigrate others in your profession via a mere supposition is inexcusable. Shame Lloyd W. Hanson