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My 80 is hard on wiper blades as for the winter they are usually encrusted
with ice despite using neat fluid in the washers. Before now I have bought
spares in UK. I forgot to bring some out when returning in August and I
have attempted to buy some locally. The only problem is that my arms are
the straight-ended type with the blade secured with 2 small screws. I
bought a pair of 'Champion' blades which on the back of the box showed a
selection of suitable fittings included - wrong ! The fittings were for
the hooked type of arm. Since then I have looked everywhere for the right
type of arm fitting but can't find it. Even Bosch make a plastic fitting
with a small pivot shaft onto which the blade is attached parallel to the
arm (a bit too sloppy for me), but I can't find those here any more. I
have found a very cheaply made Oriental pair with a crudely pressed metal
fitting which allows the blade to attach parallel to the arm with the
screws. But the quality of the rest of the blade is obviously very bad. I
can get by for a while with some other push-on plastic fittings that hang
onto the small raised pip between the screw holes, but wonder if toy have
changed the configuration of the wiper arms preferably with a hook end.
That being the case I will attempt to get some, allowing of course for mine
being LHD too. Any ideas please? (remembering that I have no toy dealers
here).
Julian, the past few days has seen a need to have the facility to paste
pictures in posts to the list. I remember when you approached us about
starting ELCO and we talked about the software you did promise that you
would find some free software that allowed this. Like we can do in the
Pajero Club postings and others. I see even 80scool has taken some
criticism for not upgrading out of Yahoo for the same reasons. I have also
been looking at the free 'Proboards' list software that does similar
things, its used by a couple of property lists that I look at - but
Proboards somehow does not like my domain name ! Anyway any update on that
improvement yet please? thanks.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia
with ice despite using neat fluid in the washers. Before now I have bought
spares in UK. I forgot to bring some out when returning in August and I
have attempted to buy some locally. The only problem is that my arms are
the straight-ended type with the blade secured with 2 small screws. I
bought a pair of 'Champion' blades which on the back of the box showed a
selection of suitable fittings included - wrong ! The fittings were for
the hooked type of arm. Since then I have looked everywhere for the right
type of arm fitting but can't find it. Even Bosch make a plastic fitting
with a small pivot shaft onto which the blade is attached parallel to the
arm (a bit too sloppy for me), but I can't find those here any more. I
have found a very cheaply made Oriental pair with a crudely pressed metal
fitting which allows the blade to attach parallel to the arm with the
screws. But the quality of the rest of the blade is obviously very bad. I
can get by for a while with some other push-on plastic fittings that hang
onto the small raised pip between the screw holes, but wonder if toy have
changed the configuration of the wiper arms preferably with a hook end.
That being the case I will attempt to get some, allowing of course for mine
being LHD too. Any ideas please? (remembering that I have no toy dealers
here).
Julian, the past few days has seen a need to have the facility to paste
pictures in posts to the list. I remember when you approached us about
starting ELCO and we talked about the software you did promise that you
would find some free software that allowed this. Like we can do in the
Pajero Club postings and others. I see even 80scool has taken some
criticism for not upgrading out of Yahoo for the same reasons. I have also
been looking at the free 'Proboards' list software that does similar
things, its used by a couple of property lists that I look at - but
Proboards somehow does not like my domain name ! Anyway any update on that
improvement yet please? thanks.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia