I live in Canada and it gets really cold up here in the winter. Anyways we go freezing rain last night and this morning I took the ice off and assumed that my wipers weren't stuck so I pulled the arm down to start my wipers, when I did this you could hear the mecanism inside trying to get the wipers going. Well now, the ice is gone and if I try and get my wipers going, I can here the mecanism turning every second or so but my wipers aren't moving. Did they detach themselves??

Is this easy to fix??

 

when that happened to me before I poured a pot of hot water on them, let it sit, flipped the switch again and wallah, worked like a charm!!!! but if anyhthing I'd say the wiper motor might be shot, doesn't seem to me like it would be a major cost maybe even a DIY job?? wait for some more responses, this is my best guess......

 

mine got stuck. I pulled a huge chunk of ice out and they worked.

 

well I don't think that the motor is shot because you can hear it working under the hood but the wipers don't move.
If I make them go faster you here the motor turning faster but still no movement

 

I didn't really mean tottally broken that just how I refer to it. I guess its kinda like when my power window crapped out on me. the motor still hummed, but the window wouldn't come up at all, so I found out it was the "power window regulator", a component of the whole system! maybe its something like that that might be wrong???

 

You probably stripped the motor gear that attaches the motor to the wiper actuators.

 

jeff, you're so smart!