Is it me or do the windscreen wipers not return to the start position. I mean not sitting on the windscreen after turning them off.
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Started by cdn99gtb, Jan 18 2015 12:47 PM
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Posted 18 January 2015 - 12:47 PM
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Posted 18 January 2015 - 12:49 PM
Where do they rest for you?
I know on my car they sit just past the clear bit of my windscreen, but you can still see the top of the wiper if you know what I mean (not the wiper blade).
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Posted 18 January 2015 - 12:58 PM
They come to a stop, in the blacked out lower section on mine. It also depends somethimes what postion they are in when you turn them off. If theyre on the way up, they stop. If theyre on the way down, they return to start postion.
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Posted 22 January 2015 - 01:12 PM
Thank you I will check. CRUSIN mine does too, but I can still move them lower by hand closer to the bottom of the windscreen.
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Posted 27 January 2015 - 05:59 AM
Ya I got free play in mine, hey Snowball PM me on cost of spindle thanks.
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Posted 28 January 2015 - 08:44 PM
My wipers are extremely loose. When they are on the drivers side wiper will come so far up that it will come off the windscreen. Does anyone know why this is and if so how do I fix it?
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Posted 28 January 2015 - 10:13 PM
Your wiper blade refills are probably too long. You can just remove the rubber bit from the wiper blade and cut a bit off to decrease their length.
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 09:21 AM
Sorry, I think I explained it wrong, the drivers side blade will come up and go over the 'a pillar' of the car and there is also an extreme amount of play when the wipers are down. I've checked the lengths of them and they are correct, to my knowledge
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 10:05 AM
Sorry, I think I explained it wrong, the drivers side blade will come up and go over the 'a pillar' of the car and there is also an extreme amount of play when the wipers are down. I've checked the lengths of them and they are correct, to my knowledge
When they are in the off position is there much room below the blade?
If so, take the whole arm off and reset the starting position a bit lower. Does that make sense?
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 10:23 AM
Sorry, I think I explained it wrong, the drivers side blade will come up and go over the 'a pillar' of the car and there is also an extreme amount of play when the wipers are down. I've checked the lengths of them and they are correct, to my knowledge
This:
Gen 3s chew out wiper spindles. Grab a wiper and see how freeplay you have. Ive got them if you need one.
They also develop play in the wiper mechanism pivot points, I think.
What you end up with is play in the wiper relative to the motor... which is why they fly up over the A pillar (when at speed).
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 03:53 PM
So will resetting the blades to the start position cure this?
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 04:29 PM
It won't cure any slack that's developed in the system...
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 04:31 PM
Yeah, that's the issue, duncanm. A mate of mine is attending to it tomorrow, as I'm still a new to cars and have very little hand skills atm. But I'm trying. 
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Posted 30 January 2015 - 05:09 AM
So I guess my subie is a bit of a slacker then hahaha 
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Posted 30 January 2015 - 11:14 AM
The wiper arm sits in a cog wheel. As Kong said, take the arm off and reseat it into a lower tooth.
See if that fixes it any.
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 06:38 AM
I will try to give it a shot this weekend , just got a snowfall warning here 10 to freaking 20 cm's of the crap.
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