'97 Century - wipers stuck in up position

[shmerritt]

I can't find a message relating to my specific problem but my apologies if someone's already asked this:

My wipers work, but when I shut them off, they rest in the up position instead of docking down at the bottom of the windshield. Am I going to have to suck it up and make a trip to the dealer to get this taken care of?

[Flatrater]

Its in here somewhere on this forum might be in the Buick or Pontaic forums not sure of which one.

Your problem most likely was the result of the wipers being frozen to the glass or having snow on the glass. Either the crank arm park switch or the tab the park lever hits got bent.

I would go with the tab being bent. If you remove the wiper arms and cowl you will see a gold plated crank arm the the motor, at about the 3 o clock position there is a tab that should be roughly standing straight up. Try bending the tab up making sure not to move the crank arm. The crank arm may require a re-timing procedure to fix the wipers.