Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 22:53:13 -0500
Reply-To: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: About the wipers...
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Hi Alistair,
Now I tend to pride myself on knowing little details like that and I never knew that was a change.
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
> On Feb 3, 2020, at 9:48 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I think it was 88 model year, maybe 87, when the drivers side wiper was moved inboard a few inches.
>
> I have no more information about my different length wiper arms, they both have same part number stamped on them. That’s 251955409.
>
> The rear wiper arm on my van has same part number except for last three digits.. 707 instead of 409.
>
> The front wiper arms can’t be swapped to the rear, well they can but they will look silly :-)
>
> 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.
>
> Alistair
>
> On Feb 3, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting,
>>
>> And I didn’t no placement changed, is there a model year that the placement changed so I can check it out?
>>
>> And, did you solve the mystery of the different size wiper arms?
>>
>> Eric Caron
>> 85 GL Auto
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> https://shufti.blog/2020/02/02/vanagon-wiper-length-difference/
>>>
>>>
>>> Alistair
>>>
>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 7:52 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 10:45 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 7:35 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 8:53 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You’ll see :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alistair
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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