I mistakenly offset the windshield wiper holes in the body in the wrong direction. Flipped 180 degrees.
The car is painted. Has anyone else made this mistake. What are my options.
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I mistakenly offset the windshield wiper holes in the body in the wrong direction. Flipped 180 degrees.
The car is painted. Has anyone else made this mistake. What are my options.
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You might get lucky & find a car with the wiper blade arms bent the opposite direction. Then you just mount the new wiper blades & let everything else work as intended. The sweep would be reversed, but you'll be the only one that knows.
Or you can try heating the wiper blades & reversing the bend. It'll take a good amount of heat. I tried heating my wiper arms to that they'd rest more parallel with the bottom of the windshield, but I chickened out.
John
MK IV Roadster #8631
Ford 302, Holley Terminator EFI, T5z, 3.55 Rear End, IRS, 17” Halibrand Replicas (9” front, 10.5” rear), Nitto 555 G2’s (275/40ZR17 front, 315/35ZR17 rear), Fast Freddie’s Power Steering, F5 Wilwood Brakes, FFMetal’s Firewall Forward, Forte’s Hydraulic Clutch & Throttle Linkage
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One option is to use the Specialty Power Windows wiper kit. the drive unit can be set up to run in either direction (and sweep degrees can also be tuned) so you could set your wipers up in basically a mirror image of the "normal" configuration and have them sweep in the opposite direction. They sell wiper arms bent in either direction. It might look a little funky if someone is paying close enough attention but might be better than drilling another set of holes. I used the SPW kit on my roadster build. You can see more details about it here, here, and here.
MkIV Roadster build: Gen 2 Coyote, IRS, TKO600. Ordered 10/24/18. Delivered 1/29/19. Engine installed 8/8/21. First start 9/12/21. First go-kart 9/17/21. Off to paint 4/11/22. Back from paint 12/30/22. Build thread here.
Just replace the arms. Moss motors has MGB wiper arms in both LHD and RHD.
Jeff
Does anyone know which arms are supplied with the kit LH or RH
If you need a RHD kit, there is an excellent supplier in Australia
https://www.caeperformance.com.au/ch...1jb2JyYTIuanBn
Mk.4 FFR supplied Right hand drive
Received 12/2012 completed 12/2019
Gen1 Coyote / TKO600 / IRS
Lots of mods to make compliant for Australian design rules