Wipers

[pubman]

Guys,
All singing, all dancing teflon coated wipers, no chattering, no squeaking. Times, Driving, Today
Geoff

[damo m]

where did you get them?

Have you had a chance to see if they lift at speed?

Have you tried rain-ex?

damian

[agerrard]

What about Bosch S21s ? A number of Tuscan owners use them. RainX works well for me . . .

Andrew

[lax]

Hmmmm can anyone tell me how easily they fitted the Bosch S21s and what the trick is.

I bought a pair only to find that the width of the wiper arms is too great for the hinged plastic whatchyamacallit that they're supposed to locate into.

The result being a bust whatchyamacallit....oh - and skinned knuckles!

[TSS]

lax said: Hmmmm can anyone tell me how easily they fitted the Bosch S21s and what the trick is.

I bought a pair only to find that the width of the wiper arms is too great for the hinged plastic whatchyamacallit that they're supposed to locate into.

The result being a bust whatchyamacallit....oh - and skinned knuckles!

I hope this makes some sort of sense:

We may not be talking about the same thing, but on mine the S21 wiper arm/whatchyamacallit fit was really just a "push fit". On the originals the plastic part of the wiper fitted into the U shaped part of the metal arm with a nice reassuring click. With the S21s I just had to push the moulded plastic whatchyamacallit into the U shaped arm bit as hard as I could. I hope I don’t need to change them again as I found I’d pushed it together so hard I couldn’t remove it.

[lax]

Thanks TSS, but that sounds like what I did. Unfortunately the simple push fit wasn't.

There was no way the width of the wiper arm would fit into the 'flanges' on the hinged plastic bit.

wonder if the spec of the wiper arm has changed or if I just got a dodgy bit of molded plastic.

Might try again. I mean £12 for a new wiper arm versus being able to see outta the windscreen in rain on the motorway - no brainer really!