Ffffffffecking hell....

[taaffy]

Washing the car this afternoon.....wiper blades up from windscreen.
Dried car off then started door shuts and under front and rear lids.......forgot to put wipers back down and opened front lid ......

I now have 2 nice paint chips where the wipers smacked into the front lid .....


NUMPTY NUMPTY NUMPTY .....


Anyone else managed to do this......

[taaffy]

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[thegoose]

No, but the common slip up is not putting a 996 rear wiper down properly - it scratches the C pillar.

[996TT_STEVO]

Nope, but try posting it again to see if someone has!

[Zyp]

996TT_STEVO said:

Nope, but try posting it again to see if someone has!

I've done it, but without damage.....

[AndyBrew]

Yes did it on my escort cosworth years ago, followed it up by shutting the garage door on the whale tail, the same night my golf clubs fell of the shelf onto my bonnet, this was the day I bought it!

[Soovy]

AndyBrew said:

Yes did it on my escort cosworth years ago, followed it up by shutting the garage door on the whale tail, the same night my golf clubs fell of the shelf onto my bonnet, this was the day I bought it!

Got to hurt!

[sleep envy]

Have almost done that but worse for me was a load of timber stored in the roof trusses of the garage being dropped onto the bonnet and roof of my mint e30 sport evo by my father.

How we laughed at that one.

[DiscoColin]

Zyp said:

I've done it, but without damage.....

Me too - I suspect it is rather common, though getting actual damage from it probably isn't. <sympathy for the OP>

[Por911T]

I did the rear wiper / c pillar thing on my C4S ........... Mega score down the n/s/r rear wing ............. Happened the day I collected the car - before ,yes before, I drove it off the forecourt . Boy o boy I felt life a horses ass - eyes nearly flew out of my head !!!!!! Can all be avoided with a small 10p cable tie.

[melv]

Two posts? You really want to let the world know what a tt you are???

[m33ufo]

Which car? Not the 360 I hope?

[Homer J]

Por911T said:

I did the rear wiper / c pillar thing on my C4S ........... Mega score down the n/s/r rear wing ............. Happened the day I collected the car - before ,yes before, I drove it off the forecourt . Boy o boy I felt life a horses ass - eyes nearly flew out of my head !!!!!! Can all be avoided with a small 10p cable tie.

Another one here for the rear wiper vs c pillar. Mine actual scratched the c pillar on the way down, scribed an arc on the top of the rear wing, then scratched its way back up the c pillar.

I laugh about it now

[Porkupine]

How does this C-pillar thing happen? I don't get it? Someone care to enlighten me?

[Homer J]

Porkupine said:

How does this C-pillar thing happen? I don't get it? Someone care to enlighten me?

When your wiper is up when your washing the rear screen, if your not careful, you can catch it. The blade flips so the whole assemblies like a T shape. Then the wiper blade frame basically "keys" your c pillar.

It's an absolute tw@t

[Podro]

I did the rear wiper thing on my C4 about 6 years ago, made my eyes water... note to self, go and get a tie-wrap now and put it on the rear wiper of my new Turbo S immediately!

[Porkupine]

Sounds painful!! Just hoping the valeters don't do this when they are washing it! Better keep an eye from now on!!!

[NNK]

At least I dont cry anymore when I think about it

[Slippydiff]

sleep envy said:

Have almost done that but worse for me was a load of timber stored in the roof trusses of the garage being dropped onto the bonnet and roof of my mint e30 sport evo by my father.

How we laughed at that one.

Bad enough on a vanilla E30 M3, but a Sport Evo ? I bet there were a few choice words uttered that day Ric . . .

[FisiP1]

Nothing to mine, but seen a few shattered windscreens on my dads cars during wiper blade changes.. he never learns.