Anyone ever modified Xantia wipers

c.morewood · Unread post by **c.morewood** » 28 May 2005, 23:14

Picture this.. youve just sprayed the windscreen with the washer, the wipers have done their usual 2 or three wipes.. lovely clear windscreen... then irritatingly, the liquid remaining on the wiper arm is blown off on to the glass necessitating another wipe.
This then continues until the fluid has dried off the arm and probably left marks on the windscreen. Its a catch22 situation!
The drivers side wiper on my Xantia simply rests too high, in the airstream from the bonnet.
The C5 has a fillet at the top end of the bonnet which seems to deflect the air over the wiper.
Has anyone here tried to find a solution to this or am I the only one affected?
I had thought of lengthening the wiper arm on the other side of the pivot which would give a larger sweep.. or a bit of trim with an aerodynamic sweep at the top of the bonnet...any other ideas?
Chris

zzf00l · Unread post by **zzf00l** » 29 May 2005, 00:18

No you are not the only one, it used to annoy the hell out of me as well.... In fact I found myself becoming obsessional about giving it another wipe to get the last drop off.... so I trained myself to ignore it much to the relief of my other half.
Ian

adamskibx · Unread post by **adamskibx** » 29 May 2005, 01:08

I think some people modify the BX wiper position on the spindle so it lands on the drivers side of the car, low and out of the way- stops water running up afterwards into drivers view as the wiper is in the way and deflect water up the very edge of the screen where you dont notice it.

rossnunn · Unread post by **rossnunn** » 29 May 2005, 03:35

I've done this to the ZX. It uses a single wiper & parks on the passagers side.
If you wash the screen or drive through a drissle the wiper clears the screen but the water at the bottom then runs up right in your feild of view.
But parking the wiper on the drivers side the water runs up the blade & off. The daft thing is if you look at LHD ZX's their wipers park on what would be our driver side.

adamskibx · Unread post by **adamskibx** » 29 May 2005, 06:20

Rossnun I think i might do this to my BX- Does the wiper get annoying at all? being at the bottom of the screen? Think thats why they park it on the left. Mind you, when I drove a 2cv the wiper are right in the middle of the screen-annoying at first but after a while you dont notice it.

oilyspanner · Unread post by **oilyspanner** » 29 May 2005, 16:51

I moved the park position on my BX to the right hand side of the screen, I do not find the blade being in my line of sight a problem, there is a slight advantage in moving the arm re water blowing up the screen, and the fact that the part I look through is swept first, it still doesnt help the BX habit of wearing blades out too quickly.
Stewart

Kowalski · Unread post by **Kowalski** » 30 May 2005, 05:09

When I wash my screen, I always end up putting the wipers on intermittent for a while afterward to catch all of the drips. It's annoying but what can you do about it...

rossnunn · Unread post by **rossnunn** » 01 Jun 2005, 00:20

nope, it sits low so you can't really notice it from the drivers seat (Y)