Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 19:58:45 -0800
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: About the wipers...
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Hi Eric ,
I forget right now the website that lists a lot of the changes, gimme a while and I’ll send the link ,others may know.
The rear vents... I’ll almost bet the same time as the wiper location change . But don’t bet on it .
Ab
> On Feb 3, 2020, at 7:53 PM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hi Alistair,
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> Now I tend to pride myself on knowing little details like that and I never knew that was a change.
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> People are going to be wondering why I’m using my talking tape measure to measure the distance between wipers, but I’m going to find out what year that change happened!
> Now if I can just remember the year the rear window vents showed up I’ll have some little facts to show off with.
>
> Eric Caron
> 85 GL Auto
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>> On Feb 3, 2020, at 9:48 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> Hi Eric,
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>> I think it was 88 model year, maybe 87, when the drivers side wiper was moved inboard a few inches.
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>> I have no more information about my different length wiper arms, they both have same part number stamped on them. That’s 251955409.
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>> The rear wiper arm on my van has same part number except for last three digits.. 707 instead of 409.
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>> The front wiper arms can’t be swapped to the rear, well they can but they will look silly :-)
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>> No idea why the fronts are different but share the same number. Only thing I can think of is they come as a pair. But that’s a very weak explanation.
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>> Alistair
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>> On Feb 3, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> Interesting,
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>>> And I didn’t no placement changed, is there a model year that the placement changed so I can check it out?
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>>> And, did you solve the mystery of the different size wiper arms?
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>>> Eric Caron
>>> 85 GL Auto
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>>>> On Feb 3, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
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>>>> I’ve updated the blog post showing comparison of wiper arms to the rear wiper arm. You’ll see the difference. Plus a pic of a South African van rear wiper... it’s the same as left hand drive.
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>>>> https://shufti.blog/2020/02/02/vanagon-wiper-length-difference/
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>>>>
>>>> Alistair
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>>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 7:52 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
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>>>>> What I meant was…I’m not sure that right hand drive Vanagons with a rear wiper have a mirror imaged one. South African and Australian Vanagons (Kombis/Transporters) definitely had mirror imaged front wipers compared to the US. I would not be surprised if the SA/Australian rear wipers were mirrors of their fronts, I just haven’t been able to find any photos to demonstrate that.
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>>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 10:45 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
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>>>>>> Well, mine are. The front wiper does not sit on stud the same way as the rear wiper does. I’ll get pics and post tomorrow .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alistair
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>>>>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 7:35 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Be aware that South African Vanagons have mirror imaged wiper arms on the front. I can’t speak to other right hand drive countries. Nor am I positive that the rear wiper is a mirrored image.
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>>>>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 8:53 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> I’ll take more pics when the sun comes up again, showing the diff between the front wipers I have and the rear wiper arm.
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>>>>>>>> You’ll see :-)
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>>>>>>>> Alistair
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