I keep meaning to sort mine out which requires walking to the car park with 2 pairs of mole grips unless I'm missing something. Because - fit new blades, 2 months later they are stuck like this crude diagram. Smooth on the up-stroke and juddery screech back down again. Seems like my wiper arms aren't lined up with the windscreen, I keep meaning (for 5+ years) to twist the arms but I was wondering if anyone else has/had this problem.
Despite my wiper arms appearing to have plenty of spring, I put new arms and wiper blades on and it honestly transformed their operation. Having a relatively new screen and using rainX probably helped.
New screen, new blades here, plenty spring, nothing bent. Are your blades perpendicular to the screen?
Except for the end of the driver’s side one which doesn’t have the ability to follow the tight curve of the screen.
Not sure I explained very well. When I look at the arm end on, compared to the angle of the screen, the arm is maybe 10-15 degrees out of parallel. I should take a photo but it's 200 yards away.
Bend the stalk to suit as you were going to. Has there been a new front panel put on your van? Sometimes the wiper arm linkage gets pushed down which straightens the assembly and the arms move away accordingly
Ahh, get you….. the only thing that can cause that is the arm/ blade connection alignment surely…. as I said I was convinced that my arms were fine and that I was wasting my time changing them, but, in my case it worked.
Sure, but my spindles/arms are all in alignment so replacing at the arms I still have this out of kilter thing. I used the top part of a new front panel (from halfway up the indicators) and get to wondering if the "bumps" the spindles clamp to aren't right.
I have the same thing on my golf weirdly. I solved the problem by buying a new car But before that, I was just going to do as you will when you can muster the will to walk 200 yards. Twist it so it’s perpendicular to the screen. No idea how it’s gone out of whack though, as it never used to be.
This is one of those things that you can’t fix when it’s raining and when it’s not raining you don’t need to. If you twist the arm so the blade is perpendicular to the screen at one end of the sweep, won’t it be worse at the other end?
