Yesterday I took the wiper arms off RZ1, sanded them back and painted them, ready to transfer on to RZ2 today. Have now removed the arms off RZ2 and replaced with the much nicer looking repainted ones. The 2 arms that came off RZ2 are equal length, see pic below. The two arms I took off RZ1 and painted are unequal length, with one arm about 7cm shorter (only a guess). The wipe pattern seemed to work best with the shorter arm on the driver's side. Can anybody confirm whether they have equal/unequal length wiper arms, and if unequal, which side is the shorter? Cheers, Mikey.
longer wiper arms or the blade itself? My blades were unequal lengths when I repainted my wiper arms a few months ago. I was unable to get these same odd sizes at autobarn so got two equal length ones which work great (slightly longer than the longest one I think..Can measure if you need a size. And the rear one I had to settle for a slightly shorter one which doesn't really affect the wipe pattern.
The arms themselves, with the blades removed. As per the pic, the arms on my current Z are equal length; the arms off my older Z were not. 1 was the same size as these 2, the other one was shorter. The blades on all 4 were the same length, so I bought 2 more newbies of that same length. After playing around, I think the better set-up is with the shorter arm on the driver's side as it gets rid of an otherwise unwiped spot lower down the screen in my field of vision. Just wondering if there was a "correct" answer.
Driver side should be about 3cm longer than the passenger side, both of those are driver side. The actual part that the blade slides into are the same length on the front windscreen. The rear screen one is shorter.
Measurements, JDM 1989 TT 2+2 Here's what I just measured - RHS / drivers side, 520 mm arm only. LHS / passenger side 560 mm arm only. Both blade carriers without clips 495 mm. Hope this helps.
Checked 2 Z32's: both have different length wiper arms, the shorter arms are on the drivers side. Both arms have 20" wipers.
Agree with this! From the work last Saturday painting the wiper arms from ZedHed's NA, the short arm is for the drivers side, the longer for the pax side. This was decided after comparing the wiper arms on my NA, Wykkeds TT, Peter Black's NA, etc (there were seven Zeds to compare with). The rear arm is even longer than the long front arm and because of the weird angles involved, cannot be used on the front screen. I can foresee a lot of short-arm inspections in the near future!
Short arm inspections. I hope you're not volunteering for the job ! I haven't read or heard that expression in Donkey's yonks. It may need explaining to the younger members, pardon the pun.
Wow, this really got side-tracked. Short-arm inspections for the younger member's.....? Guess I'm safe. Now I'm going to have to inspect my member ... I mean wiper arm and see if the shop put them on correctly after the re-spray.
Gotta love a dick joke. Yes, and it's a dirt track. My RHS windscreen cowl is not straight, it has a slight dip in it about 120 mm left of the bonnet centre line. So in my case, if the longer arm was on the RHS then the blade end would not drop into that dip. Is this the case with your car ? Putting your short arm in the wrong place can cause all manner of strife, gotta be careful with that.
^^^ Short arm inspection complete and found correct/serviceable. Yes, the end of the driver's side wiper blade does conform to the natural dip of the cowl. My Zed is a JDM as well. (Read RHD)
Big clap for your input, Or would you rather avoid that ? Yeah, let's keep it that way. I dread to think what RedZedMikey will make of all this nonsense.
Hey, it's all good cle..... umm..... dirty fun! Dougy (red 32) was at the same Z-work day as I was, he was the inspector. Settled on and happy that drivers get the short arm. I guess RZ2 didn't have a short arm 'cos it knew how much action I am getting, therefore no short-arm inspections required .
Hey Mikey, Just adding another vote for the shorter arm on the drivers side , its the way Renee's is and it works better than the other way around (the first time we painted hers we had a similar predicament where we didn't remember which was which in conjunction with the rear hatch one as well and had to experiment for a while ). Oh and when you put the rear hatch one back on, remember it goes on in the 12 oclock position not 3 oclock, so when ON it rotates clockwise down to the bottom of the hatch...simple I know, but I know of a panel shop that got it wrong, putting it back on at the 3 oclock position causing scratches in the hatch beneath the spoiler and then got stuck on the way back after dropping of the edge when turned on for the first time . Cheers! Craig
I found the easiest way to determine the correct positioning of any of the arms was to NOT clean the glass they came off. This way you can see in the dirt/dust just where they are supposed to sit when in the off-position (assuming they were in the correct position to start with).
Yeah definitely makes sense, except in our case the glass was already clean from a previous wash Oh and it wasn't Renzed that had the rear wiper put on wrong by the panel shop, it was another Z that I heard of ...I would have been ropeable if it happened to Renee's Z after her respray Cheers! Craig
