windscreen wipers

[clive f]

what donor car are the windscreen wiper arms from?

passenger side are starting to bubble with a bit of rust! cant be having that so looking to replace, any ideas?

[mk1fan]

Look a bit like mkiv Golf items at the base.

[glow worm]

Leven (Prestige Performance) do the arms aswell as the blades for 16" Chims/Griff and 21" for Tuscans , will they fit ?.

http://www.leventechnology.co.uk/products/washwipe...

Update ... Just measured my Chim Leven ones against my Sag and they are the same just over 16" ... I reckon the Leven ones would be good on a Sag .... Drivers side arm has big kink to make it straight along the screen and the passenger blade has an extra bridge so it hugs the curved edge of the screen better plus you can get rid of the nasty Peugeot Citroen (knew it was French rubbish ) washer tubes and use the spray bars . But ask PPC don't take my word .

Edited by glow worm on Wednesday 12th November 22:41

Edited by glow worm on Thursday 13th November 18:48

[slimtater]

I got mine replaced last year at Power when in for a service - part nos M1705&6, £22.80 inc vat each.

[B3NNL]

Rusty wiper arms Clive! Tut, tut, thats you down at least 10bhp!

[chris watton]

I bought mine (both arms and blades) from Powers Performance. They were the very first things I changed on my Tam, as I too noticed a bit of rust on one of the arms...

[RobertoBlanco]

chris watton said:

I bought mine (both arms and blades) from Powers Performance. They were the very first things I changed on my Tam, as I too noticed a bit of rust on one of the arms...

Me, too. :-)
But changed the low-tech washer-tube to a more modern washer jet version from merc vito. These are plastic clipped 3-nozzle washers.

Didn't know Leven had this for sale. Might have gone this route, too. After all I primarily changed the washers because of their ugliness. A friend of mine praised them as a low-cost solution doing the job just fine. Funny how perceptions can differ.

[clive f]

thanks for your help guys, Benn, I`ll gain an extra 10hp due to my slim frame

[billynobrakes]

I bought the ones from eBay, they get rid of the horrible Citreon ones and the washer jet is on the blade connector £27 for the pair just need to clean up the arms

[Little Mac]

I have checked with Leven (PCP) and they have advised that their wiper arms don' fit the Sagaris . A shame as this would have been an ideal solution.

[The Surveyor]

Just a suggestion, if the wiper arms are performing well and the springs aren't knackered, why replace the arms with new. £10 worth of smooth satin hamerite and 5 mins with a wire brush cup on my angle grinder sorted mine out for another few years.

Paul

[glow worm]

Little Mac said:

I have checked with Leven (PCP) and they have advised that their wiper arms don' fit the Sagaris . A shame as this would have been an ideal solution.

Spoke to Paul from PCP today, and he had a Sag in the workshop, so he tested to see what fits. Tuscan arms with Chimaera 16" blades fit OK . If anyone would like to purchase this combination to test , Paul said if the customer wasn't happy he would accept a return and refund the cost.
Personally the arms on my Sag are OK , but I hate the cheapo tubes with holes, so I'm going to fit a set of Leven 16" Chim blades with washer spray bars on the existing arms (which are in good condition). My Sag blades measure about 17" and I think some people may have 18" fitted, Tuscan 21" are obviously too big.