Rear wiper. How audible should it be?

[Delta88]

2016 Yukon. This rear wiper is pretty loud. As they say, sounds like two robots fuggin. It works but wow. are they just this loud due to location in the rear hatch or?

 

[OR VietVet]

Video of noise? Clean glass and get a new blade to allow for a quieter sweep of blade and therefore less resistance.

 

[Doubeleive]

haven't really listened to the one in my wife's 16 but in all my other previous gen vehicles it has always been pretty much dead silent and never hear the thing. I also never use it and only notice it on if it was turned on by accident and I happen to be looking in the rear view mirror and see it moving.
maybe because they are moved up by the roof you hear it more?

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Mine is barely audible, so if your drowns out your radio, then I believe that you have an issue. You could try a little WD40 where the motor shaft goes into the rear lid's body.

 

[k_arnold72]

Mine is audible when it deploys or retracts but it doesn't seem to be an issue. Looks like a byproduct of the hidden away design

 

[Miami-Dade]

2016 Yukon. This rear wiper is pretty loud. As they say, sounds like two robots fuggin. It works but wow. are they just this loud due to location in the rear hatch or?

On my 2016 Hoe it is dead silent. Used it maybe twice as I almost never turn it on. If it went belly up I would not fix it.

 

[CMoore711]

On the ‘15 Yukon XL Denali it is silent. If it sounds like 2 robots getting it in then something is definitely not right.

That being said everyone has a different sound tolerance on what’s acceptable and what’s not.

 

[k_arnold72]

I think the first time I used mine, I thought I got rear ended. Not hard, but like a bumper tap. Surprised me a little.

 

[p1zaul]

Mine had same issue when purchased second hand, I noticed others were way less noisy and it ended up being the motor. It was in it's way out, pretty easy install and back to normal.

 

[fr8bil]

Speaking of the Yukon (2018 ) wiper blade, where are you folks finding replacement blades ? Not the short life rubber stuff but the Silicone blade that has better life. Looking at WallyWorld's listing book in the auto dept., the book doesn't even show a rear window blade for anyone of their three brands of wiper blades at all Thanks.