windscreen wipers

Post by **Relfy** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:02 pm

The past couple of new ss windscreen wipers i've bought are, well, cack. They're made by Tex. Does anyone know who else might make some that work?

Thanks,

Post by **aupickup** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:06 pm

well i will have to agree the tex ones are cr==p, i had some old ones can not remember who made them will have a look.
the new tex ones the springs are weak, i buy mine from auto jumbles and the club rallies
i buy enough to last a couple of years

Post by **Cam** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:36 pm

I bought some from ESM for Gracie around last August? and they are fine. Not sure of the make though, whatever they sell.

Where did you get yours from?

Post by **Relfy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:07 pm

From Bull Motif. Yeh, the old one's I took off are Tex aswell, but completely different (plastic backing to the rubber instead of wire strips and generally cheaper feeling) - but although they are worn and need changing - they are still better than the new one's!!
So I've moved the old passenger's one on to the driver's side (which was dead) and put the new one infront of the passenger - thinking it preferable that I see out, than they do!
I'll try ESM next time then.
Could you have a look at yours and see what's engraved on them, please Cam?

Post by **Cam** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:31 pm

Here are some piccies. The ones on Grace (1st two piccies) are fine:

These are fine too (on my 4-door car), but I used Halfords refills on some generic wipers (no markings).

Post by **Relfy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:36 pm

Good grief! Thanks

Yours are Tex too then... but older one's by the look of it, which is just as well.
Hmm.

Post by **Cam** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:38 pm

No probs. The ones on the grey car are from last year, but the ones on the green car were probably around 2000/2001.

Post by **Relfy** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:08 pm

Right - I can now vouch for Halfords refills and they work a treat with the stainless steel tex wipers... much better than the piece of completey unwipey rubber you get with them new!
The only mod I made was singeing the ends of the plastic backings to make sure they didnt slide out.

... can also vouch for 'rainex' as per Peetee.

Hooray! I can see out when its raining!

Post by **Cam** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:52 pm

Good stuff! Glad you finally got sorted out.

I certainly needed my wipers today.

Post by **grahamt7** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:19 am

A further top tip for rainex - use rain-ex on the side windows and rain-ex anti-fog on thew inside - it's grrrreat. Almost completely negates the need for any sort of heated screen.

Post by **Cam** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:33 am

That's good to know Graham/Peetee. My heater is working now thanks to fiddling about with the rheostat and it got a bit steamed up this morning. Nice warm toes though!

Post by **Onne** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:24 am

what exactly is a rheostat? Do I have one?

Post by **simmitc** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:49 pm

It's a variable resistor that changes the amount of current being supplied to the heater motor to make it run faster or slower (in theory, that is; it could be argued that it's slow or very slow). Fitted on the early heaters where there is a round knob that you rotate to switch the fan on.

Post by **Onne** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:56 pm

Ow. then mine is broken. Only on or off atm

Post by **paulk** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:24 pm

Have a good look Onne cos some Rheostats go
Off-On- then turn more to give LOWER speed to almost nothing

Post by **Onne** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:37 pm

Will check asap!

Post by **Onne** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:42 pm

It does work! Only I never noticed it before. I can indeed feel the airflow go from bad to worse... at least it's nice and hot now!

Post by **Cam** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:24 pm

Yes that's what mine does. Just turn it a bit to get it running at full speed then keep turning to slow it down.

Post by **Relfy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:52 pm

A further top tip for rainex - use rain-ex on the side windows and rain-ex anti-fog on thew inside - it's grrrreat.

A rainex anti-fog wipe, plus a bottle of rainex glass cleaner is going free with the normal rainex in Halfords at the moment.

I certainly needed my wipers today.

Yup, I still need them quite often despite the 'rainex', just cos of the number of lorries that keep splatting me with mud on the way to work. I'm not sure they've invented a 'mud-ex' yet.... maybe I should. I'd make loads of money out of the off-roading lot!

Post by **pskipper** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:42 am

What about the anti-pesto van in W&G