Last night the wipers on my Tucson stopped working. The wiper motor was still running so I knew that it probably was the linkage connecting the wipers. After taking apart the trim to get to the wiper motor. I saw that the linkage had come disconnected from the motor. I reinstalled it and tightened it down. After putting it back together I tested it out. When you click the wiper switch on the wipers they go down toward the engine before heading back up. I tried to move the arms to adjust for this problem, but the arms need to be in the center of the windshield, so they can drop down and back up. Is there some adjustment on the linkage that I don't know about, and should have fixed before hooking it back to the motor?

You probably hooked it up part way thru the cycle -take it in to the dealers have them fix it under warranty

Itza

This has happened twice so far on our almost new 07 Tuscon.

We live 3 hours drive from the dealer, so the roadside assistance was absolutely no help (called and they would only be willing to send a towtruck to tow us back to the dealer) we wound up bringing it (in blinding snow and without wipers) to our local service station (2 miles away) where they took off the tray and put the mechanism back together.

When this happened a second time I made arrangements to bring it to the dealer to figure out what was wrong. The service manager said this was a known problem and offered to give me new wiper arms (after telling me that this would NOT fix the problem, but was all he could do). I am still awaiting a solution from the dealer before bumping this issue up to Hyundai America.

I was also told that I would not be reimbursed for the two fixes (total $80 for both) by the local service station to get my tuscon back on the road (although I guess they would have presumably paid almost $1000 to tow my car to the dealership twice more than 250 miles each way). I will be bringing up this issue as well if not reimbursed.

Has anyone else had this problem and found a realistic solution? It is really the only issue with our vehicle we didn't expect and are upset about. The SUV gets great milage, handles well even in snow, and is much roomier than it looks.