Floppy wipers

[andyfb78]

No I haven't seen the set up with direct jets, sounds interesting, though I must confess, that bit is fine. It is the regularity with which I need to lube the arms to keep presure on the screen that bugs me most about the current set up.
Cheers

[missfixit70]

I like these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAZDA-BONGO-FLAT- ... 2ea0dee122

Sparky

I tried those with conventional wipers as I hate the mess left on a nicely polished bonnet from the normal jets - works ok, but as the jet is in the middle of the blade, it doesn't really cover the screen, especially the lower part at any speed. I made some small holes in the tubing lower down where I'd cable tied it to the arm. Currently trying to come up with a tidy looking version that gives decent coverage.

[dave_aber]

Citroen BX's and IIRC Peugeot 405's of a certain vintage had spray bars on the wiper arms. Pipes of around 1mm in diameter, with various perforations along the length to spray 4 or 5 jets of water on both sides of the blade, all the way from the 'inner' end to about 3/4 of the whole blade length.

They did suffer from an icing issue though - much more susceptible to freezing up than conventional bonnet mounted jets.

[missfixit70]

Cheers Dave, gives me sumat to look out for when it's warm enough to trawl the scrappy again, icing up isn't a huge issue down here, especially by the time I crawl out of my pit

[dave_aber]

Some links :-

http://www.205gti.com/techruitenwisUK.htm - Not too clear, but you get the idea. This is someone sticking a BX wiper on a 205GTi

http://www.midlandslotus.co.uk/wiki/ind ... Elise_Misc And here adding one to a Lotus Elise - complete with Citroen part No.

http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Windscreen_washer_mod and here, listing Citroen and Peugeot part No's, along with other options.

The citroen had a waterway through the centre of the wiper spindle too - overkill really.

[bobngo]

thanks peeps for all the replies .i,ve learnt alot , but feel more confused than ever ,theres so many options