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Actually, I was thinking of building a Supersport-style show car in the Speedster (no windscreen) format that I envisaged using the Lambo doors... Obviously, that car would feature the no-wiper conversion

Holy thread revival Bat Man.

Rob, what length blade did use?

My 2001 Merc E-Class W210 has a single wiper, but in typical German fashion it just doesn't sweep left and right, it's more complicated than that - the arm slides on a cam which pushes the blade outwards as it moves left & right from centre in order to improve the swept area. I have no idea why they dropped it in favour of a double wiper system on later models - it has been working fine on mine for the past 16 years and over 270,000km. Mind you it doesn't rain much here...

Rob Bell wrote:The cost is 65 quid from their ebay shop

The only item in their ebay shop is a repair kit but they are listed on their website

http://www.autotintdesign.com/singlewipers.html

0r make your own, I did for my maestro van.

http://www.babelfish.demon.co.uk/wipers.htm

(sorry, that is a very simple web page written in the last century, almost - May 2001.)

talkingcars wrote:

Rob Bell wrote:The cost is 65 quid from their ebay shop

The only item in their ebay shop is a repair kit but they are listed on their website

http://www.autotintdesign.com/singlewipers.html

0r make your own, I did for my maestro van.

http://www.babelfish.demon.co.uk/wipers.htm

(sorry, that is a very simple web page written in the last century, almost - May 2001.)

How did you get it to park in the middle?

By altering the positon of the arm on the motor IIRC.

^^^ as James says.

I can't remember the blade length off the top of my head, but have a recollection that it is the same as one of the ones on the ZTT

And the Merc 190 oscillating wiper spindle is a very good idea as there are irritating areas of un-wiped screen when you sit at the standard seat height in the MGF. In the race car, with a lower seat base, this is not such a problem