Wipex vs Storm wipers

[taylormj4]

Hello,
Noticed two different 'upgrade' wipers for the Chimaera on EBay: one by Storm Wipers and another by Wipex. They both have spray jets mounted on the wiper arms rather than the OEM tubes (mine block all the time). But, the Wipex ad claims that they are their curviest blades and fit the TVR screen well.

Has anyone used either of these and found them to be an improvement ?

Thanks.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Nobody on here goes out in the rain mate

[S7Paul]

I haven't tried them, but I need to do something about my wipers. How they manage to do a complete sweep and yet fail to wipe almost all of the glass is quite uncanny!

[taylormj4]

S7Paul said:

I haven't tried them, but I need to do something about my wipers. How they manage to do a complete sweep and yet fail to wipe almost all of the glass is quite uncanny!

Ah, the levitating blades. Yes I have those too. The new one though now is that, the rubber tube from the bonnet mount blows off the end of the wiper arm when I switch the washers on and sprays all my washer fluid straight into the engine bay.....cool eh?

Matt

[E1DJH]

I fitted the Leven ones. Huge improvement on standard

[robinracer]

hi Mat
I have the leven ones on mine and no props with the swipe it clears the screan easly. have you changed your battery and how easy is it.

jason

[taylormj4]

robinracer said:

hi Mat
I have the leven ones on mine and no props with the swipe it clears the screan easly. have you changed your battery and how easy is it.

jason

Hi Jason,
Yeah, I've changed it twice now. I didn't find it that difficult really. It certainly takes longer than a change on a car where the battery is in the engine bay.
You'll need a tube of black mastic to seal up the floor afterwards.
The only thing to watch out for is the bolts ripping the captured nuts out of the battery box. I can imagine the job would be a fair bit nastier then. Give em a good spray with WD40 or similar and then ease the torque in, if it's getting too high, repeat the spray procedure rather than giving it loads of welly. Then coat threads with copper grease when re-assembling so it's Ok next time too. Finally, watch yourself when moving the battery out You have to get in a pretty awkward space to reach it and they are pretty heavy - I reckon you could easily put your back out if you were not careful.
Cheers,
Matt

[Bunglist]

taylormj4 said:

robinracer said:

hi Mat
I have the leven ones on mine and no props with the swipe it clears the screan easly. have you changed your battery and how easy is it.

jason

Hi Jason,
Yeah, I've changed it twice now. I didn't find it that difficult really. It certainly takes longer than a change on a car where the battery is in the engine bay.
You'll need a tube of black mastic to seal up the floor afterwards.
The only thing to watch out for is the bolts ripping the captured nuts out of the battery box. I can imagine the job would be a fair bit nastier then. Give em a good spray with WD40 or similar and then ease the torque in, if it's getting too high, repeat the spray procedure rather than giving it loads of welly. Then coat threads with copper grease when re-assembling so it's Ok next time too. Finally, watch yourself when moving the battery out You have to get in a pretty awkward space to reach it and they are pretty heavy - I reckon you could easily put your back out if you were not careful.
Cheers,
Matt

Dont forget to mark the floor so that you know where the battery box should sit or this 10min job will take a hell of a lot longer.

[Red V8]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Nobody on here goes out in the rain mate

Hear, Hear... I put the wipex ones onto mine a few months back, dead easy to fit etc... seem to be okay and look nicer than he original setup.

[Ubernoober]

robinracer said:

hi Mat
I have the leven ones on mine and no props with the swipe it clears the screan easly. have you changed your battery and how easy is it.

jason

Didn't work so well for me - levitated on the return sweep - replaced them at Fernies at the last service with Bosch ones (I think) - much better although I have kept the spray head

[taylormj4]

Red V8 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Nobody on here goes out in the rain mate

Hear, Hear... I put the wipex ones onto mine a couple of months back, seem to work fine and look much better than the original setup.

So you wouldn't really rate them then RedV8, other than on appearance ? I was hoping for more than "fine", more like "great" or "fantastic". They certainly look good and seem more curved in the pictures than the storm ones.

[L33]

I've never bothered too much with the wipers.
Try some rainex, applied just as the bottle suggests and you won't need your wipers unless stationary in traffic.

[Red V8]

taylormj4 said:

Red V8 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Nobody on here goes out in the rain mate

Hear, Hear... I put the wipex ones onto mine a couple of months back, seem to work fine and look much better than the original setup.

So you wouldn't really rate them then RedV8, other than on appearance ? I was hoping for more than "fine", more like "great" or "fantastic". They certainly look good and seem more curved in the pictures than the storm ones.

I'm hard to please... I'd say they are better than the ones I took off, passenger side still doesn't wrap around the curved windscreen properly... also the water doesn't gush out, but they do the job... I can't really get that excited about wipers albeit they do look much tidier than the original plastic pipes... as per 2 Smokin Barrels quote... I don't find the TVR a very pleasant place to be when it's raining so I leave it at home.

RedV8 (fine weather TVR enthusiast)

[Johnniem]

E1DJH said:

I fitted the Leven ones. Huge improvement on standard

Me too. They are excellent!

[taylormj4]

Thanks everyone. Nowt better than advice from people who have tried the products. Looks like Leven are the winners - although have just noticed that they are three times the price of the Storm and Wipex system! Can they really be 3 times better ?
Cheers.

Edited by taylormj4 on Thursday 13th March 12:59