Wipers

BMWRX · 04-11-2011, 03:43 AM

I have two quandaries

1. I bought a set of wipers from the US. Sadly they are back to front. There is a clip on them that looks like it can be flipped around after push/knocking a metal pin out. However I'm concerned that it'll break. Is this possible?
2. There is apparently a drivers and a passenger side wiper. I've managed to mix mine up. There is no discernible difference that I can see. Any ideas how to work it out?

Thanks in advance.

Dackelone · 04-11-2011, 05:40 AM

Perhaps this DIY thread I wrote might help you.

Both wipers (drivers and passenger sides) are the same length.

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showt...+wiper+install

Dackel

BMWRX · 04-11-2011, 06:09 AM

Good thread but no use to me. I know how to change the blades. The problem is my blades are US style and I'm in Australia where they go the opposite direction.

Dackelone · 04-11-2011, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BMWRX

Good thread but no use to me. I know how to change the blades. The problem is my blades are US style and I'm in Australia where they go the opposite direction.

OHHHH!!! So... you need RHD wiper blades. I would just buy them locally. But I guess any mail order BMW dealer in the UK would also have what you need.

JHOOPS2 · 04-11-2011, 03:25 PM

First your toilets flush backwards, now your wipers run backwards too? What next? I guess your going to tell me that you have overgrown bunny rabbits that carry their babies in a pouch as well...

BMWRX · 04-11-2011, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JHOOPS2

First your toilets flush backwards, now your wipers run backwards too? What next? I guess your going to tell me that you have overgrown bunny rabbits that carry their babies in a pouch as well...

It's a crazy, mixed up country down here.

MrBlonde · 04-11-2011, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JHOOPS2

First your toilets flush backwards, now your wipers run backwards too? What next? I guess your going to tell me that you have overgrown bunny rabbits that carry their babies in a pouch as well...

Our toilets flush down, we don't have US style swimming pool toilets here.

JHOOPS2 · 04-11-2011, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBlonde

Our toilets flush down, we don't have US style swimming pool toilets here.

Oh man! Now my head is about to burst!

BMWRX · 04-11-2011, 08:26 PM

Back to the point at hand, problem solvered. I knocked the pin out of the couplings on the old wipers and put them onto the new wipers. Fits perfectly and hopefully I don't have farting wipers anymore.

sparoz · 04-11-2011, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by JHOOPS2

First your toilets flush backwards, now your wipers run backwards too? What next? I guess your going to tell me that you have overgrown bunny rabbits that carry their babies in a pouch as well...

Quote:

Originally Posted by BMWRX

Back to the point at hand, problem solvered. I knocked the pin out of the couplings on the old wipers and put them onto the new wipers. Fits perfectly and hopefully I don't have farting wipers anymore.

Are you able to post on a DIY section

please

- my wipers are annoying me at the moment. I was going to get the stealer to do it as it's due for a service anyway, how much are you saving?

banglemangle · 04-12-2011, 08:12 AM

Spangley misunderstood this thread - thought from the title it was going to about an Eddie Murphy movie.

C'est la vie!

xrooster · 04-15-2011, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by JHOOPS2

Oh man! Now my head is about to burst!

hey hissman i like your rims. what are they & do they spin backwards like the wagons in your cowboy movies? cheers exrooster.

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banglemangle Lieutenant 15 Rep 576 Posts Drives: bmw135 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Somewhere on the East Coast of Australia iTrader: (0)	Spangley misunderstood this thread - thought from the title it was going to about an Eddie Murphy movie. C'est la vie!
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