Dave Conner's Jointed wiper arms

[John Cody Forbes]

HA! The same Mercedes mono wiper that fails every few years from lack of 
lubrication and costs a couple hundred bucks?

-Cody

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From: "Danton J.A. Cardoso" <djacardoso at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:15 PM
To: "LL - NY" <larrycleung at gmail.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: Dave Conner's Jointed wiper arms

> I always wondered why American cars never pivoted that much.  How can one
> clean the windshield if the wipers are exposed.  Or, how about replacing 
> the
> blades?  Of course, nothing beats a Mercedes with a mono wiper, now that 
> is
> engineering.  Or their wiper on top of wiper (S-Class), or Peugeot 604's.
> Even the older 911 Porsche's and the VW Scirocco A1 with it's mono wiper.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:54 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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