Dave Conner's Jointed wiper arms

[LL - NY]

Wonder if they were 200 arms...  Hood didn't have to be up to park the
wipers up like that.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Doyt W. Echelberger <
doyt at buckeye-express.com> wrote:

> All I know for sure is that my 87 5ktq  had wiper arms that just pivoted 90
> degrees from the hub, and the hood had to be full open to allow it. (Come
> to think of it, I still have the old arms.) On a closed hood, they bumped
> the rear edge of the hood at maybe 15 degrees, I think. That is why the
> ones Dave brought me were so valuable. They had the pivot farther out the
> arm, not exactly over the hub. This allowed the 90 degree pivot, just
> clearing the rear of the closed hood.
>
> Doyt
>
>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> At 06:42 PM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
> >My later (89 200q) type 44 could. Don't know about the pre-89 ones. As far
> >as I know, all of the VAG products I ever spent time with (from 1970
> Beetle
> >to my Mom's 2001.5 Passat, multiple VW's and Audi's in between) have all
> >been able to also. I think it's a European thing, since all of the non-VAG
> >Euro cars I've spent time with (from a '64 Peugeot 504 through Taka's
> V70R)
> >also can do it. The only cars I found consistently that didn't were all
> >American.
> >
> >LL - NY
>
>
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