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Squeaky Wipers

  • 24-11-2009 3:55pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46


    Hi all, I drive a 06 Land cruiser and have had squeaky wipers for a while now. I thought that when I replaced them that the problem would go away but I put new ones on today and they are still squeaking. Any ideas on whats causing this? Its doing me nut in at the minute!!


Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Try thoroughly cleaning both the wiper blades and the windscreen?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    Washing up liquid. Loads of it. Then some WD40


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Clean the windscreen and wipers with pure white vinegar. Put a cup of it in the washer reservoir too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 cadey110


    Magnus wrote: »
    Clean the windscreen and wipers with pure white vinegar. Put a cup of it in the washer reservoir too.

    Cheers Magnus, I just put on new wipers today and am still having the squeaking. I will try the vinegar tho.,


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭kermitpwee


    Ya i'm having the same problem. I bet yours are Bosch?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 cadey110


    kermitpwee wrote: »
    Ya i'm having the same problem. I bet yours are Bosch?


    Spot on. Did I make a bad choice? Picked them up in Halfords cos I didnt fancy the look of their own brand.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭kermitpwee


    cadey110 wrote: »
    Spot on. Did I make a bad choice? Picked them up in Halfords cos I didnt fancy the look of their own brand.

    Bosch aint cheap but every set I buy of them squeak! I try to avoid them if I can now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭8vjohn


    Did you change the blades or the whole arm?


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,577 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    cadey110 wrote: »
    Spot on. Did I make a bad choice? Picked them up in Halfords cos I didnt fancy the look of their own brand.

    I bought a set of their own brand wipers a few weeks back and haven't had any problems so far.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭drBill


    Bit of a long shot given that it's a reasonably new car; but is there any chance it could be the linkage/motor/etc? A friend of mine once tried several sets of blades before discovering that it was the one of the links squeaking. A bit of grease sorted it out.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 23,201 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Ive never known a new set of blades to squeek as long as the angle of attack to windscreen is correct.
    Did you fit just the rubber or the actual blade?


  • Registered Users Posts: 659 ✭✭✭The-Game


    Does the vinegar not rot the rubber on the blades??


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    I was just looking at a site offering usefull info, then in a section on car tips it had;
    To stop windscreen wipers squeaking rub a slice of apple onto the blades.
    Contributed by Andrew Atkinson

    Taken from here.





  • Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Hinge the wipers off the windscreen. Start them up. Are they still squeaking?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭kermitpwee


    I have always changed the arm. And no its not the wiper linkage.


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