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Rear wiper

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MAZI
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Rear wiper

Post by MAZI » Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:55 am

Rear wiper is not clearing screen.
Newblade makes no difference

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Re: Rear wiper

Post by X5Sport » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:28 am

You could try very gently bending the arm to make better contact with the glass, or the pressure spring may be soft.
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Re: Rear wiper

Post by Smeeagain » Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:58 pm

[quote="MAZI"]
Rear wiper is not clearing screen.
Newblade makes no difference
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Almost certainly the pivot arms needing cleaned (prevents the arm pressing the blade against the screen properly) - comes up on here regularly - go to Search then type in rear wiper arm, read the posts and you will find the answer you need ...... and unless your blade needed changing anyway then keep the old one as a spare as there probably wasn't anything wrong with it
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Re: Rear wiper

Post by Willbof » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:20 pm

WD40 on the pivot 
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Re: Rear wiper

Post by Dimsum » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:11 pm

I ended up replacing the whole arm.... seemed easier in the end!

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Re: Rear wiper

Post by petert » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:35 pm

Lubricating the pivot worked for me and only took a few seconds.
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