Wipers

[Steveycaz]

How do you lift the front wipers to clean or replace them?

[Lankstarr]

Unfortunately you need to take the bonnet off - good luck!¬!

[Steveycaz]

:? You're kidding right? I only want to give the rubbers a good clean!

[Lankstarr]

Me - kidding... always!!

Lifdt the bonnet up and just be really careful - if you want to change tha wipers it's an arse but you shouldbe able to lift them enough to satisfy your fetish.

[Steveycaz]

How do you lift the bonnet up? I'm not very mechanical :confused:

[NSXGB]

Turn ignition on, turn wipers on.....when wipers pointing vertical, switch ignition off. Wipers will now be in a position to be lifted from the screen without touching the bonnet.
Does that help you?

[Steveycaz]

Genius :-)! Thanks Simon

[Martyn27_uk]

On my '93 if you give the wiper lever a really quick flick ( even quicker than if you wanted the blades to do a single sweep ) then they park about 5cm short of ( above ) their usual position and so the blades can be lifted with ease.

If you hold the lever for any "reasonable" length of time ( anything over a millisecond ) they park in the right place :-)

Works every time so I even considered the possibilty that it might have been deliberate!

[Steveycaz]

Come to think of it mine does that too Martin! Perhaps it is by design

[havoc]

Thought I'd resurrect an old thread.

Just got my new girl home (to reference the other thread, she's already a she, despite that gruff tone she takes when stretching her legs! ;) ), was giving her a wash to get rid of all that M-way grime, and realised I couldn't lift the wipers...

...so I do what we do with the wife's Golf, which is as per above. Except even then they won't lift more than ~3-4in clear - the pivot near the base on mine won't lift properly up! Have I got dodgy wipers, or does everyone have this problem?!?

(And if so, how do the cleaning fetishists on here cope?!? :D )

[AR]

Turn ignition on, turn wipers on.....when wipers pointing vertical, switch ignition off. Wipers will now be in a position to be lifted from the screen without touching the bonnet.
Does that help you?

Havoc this is the way to go about it.

[havoc]

Havoc this is the way to go about it.

Which they can be, but only 3 or 4in clear, so they don't STAY up like all the other cars I've had...which is why I'm confused!

[NSXGB]

That's just the way they are I'm afraid.

[Sudesh]

NSXGB method is the best. But personally for me to do this correctly without damaging anything or putting presssure on the wiper arms, I just remove them.

[amo]

dam its not that hard iv done it bonnet down 3 mins u lot worry to much lol

thx amo