Porsche 996 rear wiper delete

[p5hrr]

Im planning on deleting my rear wiper, not just plugging the hole with a grommet. I have the panel.

Is it a huge job to remove this panel and install the new panel without wiper hole.

[Basic]

I was reading up on this last night. The view across the various forums seemed to be that it was a welded-in panel.

[thegoose]

Mine has a very neat plastic cover painted to match. Eradicating the hole altogether would be nice but definitely not worth it if it means replacing a welded in panel, where any colour mis match will be really obvious and detract far more from the asthaetics than having a neat cover does.

[Basic]

thegoose said:

Mine has a very neat plastic cover painted to match. Eradicating the hole altogether would be nice but definitely not worth it if it means replacing a welded in panel, where any colour mis match will be really obvious and detract far more from the asthaetics than having a neat cover does.

When you say a 'neat plastic cover,' is this a bung-thing over the hole, or a cover over the entire panel?

Eta
I'm not knocking having a bung over the hole, but just wanted to clarify whether this is what you have.

Edited by Basic on Monday 2nd February 21:13

[thegoose]

Basic said:

When you say a 'neat plastic cover,' is this a bung-thing over the hole, or a cover over the entire panel?

Eta
I'm not knocking having a bung over the hole, but just wanted to clarify whether this is what you have.

A "bung" as you put it- a cover over the whole thing would be worse as it would stick out more as well as risking a colour mismatch.

Here's a gallery of pictures (from a few years ago but it hasn't changed), see what you think. Car is also lowered and has wheel spacers.
http://jalbum.net/en/browse/user/album/632658

[Basic]

thegoose: thanks for clarifying.

I think the car looks great.

I'm still undecided about whether to get rid of the wiper. I refuse to use it out of principle (rear wipers are for boring hatchbacks!), but know that as soon as it's gone there would be some reason to need it. Plus, buying a specially designed 'bung' (I don't know what else to call it!) seems quite expensive: circa £70.

[Rockster]

Basic said:

thegoose: thanks for clarifying.

I think the car looks great.

I'm still undecided about whether to get rid of the wiper. I refuse to use it out of principle (rear wipers are for boring hatchbacks!), but know that as soon as it's gone there would be some reason to need it. Plus, buying a specially designed 'bung' (I don't know what else to call it!) seems quite expensive: circa £70.

My Turbo has a rear wiper and I can assure you it is not a boring hatch back. (My VW Golf TDi had a rear wiper too and it was not a boring hatchback either, but a rather nice little car.)

Unless you do not drive your car in any inclement weather maybe the rear wiper is useless but for both cars I used the heck out of it and really liked having a wiper at the rear window. My advice would be to leave the wiper in place. Thus there is no need to try to find a way to hide the fact you have removed a very useful piece of kit.

[richardalanlee]

Rockster said:

My Turbo has a rear wiper and I can assure you it is not a boring hatch back. (My VW Golf TDi had a rear wiper too and it was not a boring hatchback either, but a rather nice little car.)

Unless you do not drive your car in any inclement weather maybe the rear wiper is useless but for both cars I used the heck out of it and really liked having a wiper at the rear window. My advice would be to leave the wiper in place. Thus there is no need to try to find a way to hide the fact you have removed a very useful piece of kit.

Seconded. I use the wiper quite a bit. Might not be an issue if you're only on the motorway, as I find I only need it at lower speed. Unfortunately that covers my commute. I also don't think it looks so bad on the 996, as the blade is pretty thin.

[monthefish]

I've had two 996's, both with wipers, and use them frequently.

Why on earth would you go to the time/effort/cost of deleting one??