1.   A Ballymena firm donated a car battery, while the wiper motor which drives the strange vehicle came from a Glengormley car dismantlers.

2.   A colleague recently drove a Tahoe with a Chevrolet engineer and both agreed that it had a noisy wiper motor.

3.   CarChoice cars, the brochures say, undergo a detailed inspection of everything from the timing belt to the windshield wiper motor.

4.   The electrical contacts for the circuit breaker in the wiper motors were contaminated during assembly and that wipers may fail, the company said.

5.   The electrical contacts for the circuit breaker in the wiper motors were contaminated during assembly, putting the wipers at risk of failing, the company said.