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What a brilliant idea Mr T, I could always put a plastic bag over my head in case it rained on the way...........
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Actually, I was serious about taking the glass out. If the car hasn't got a screen it doesn't need wipers to pass the mot. At least one Spyder builder had this with the perspex flyscreen - a short-arsed tester failed the car because he couldn't see over the aeroscreen, but passed it once it was removed. Madness. Not sure whether you'd need to take the frame off too though. |
Thank goodness I did not follow your advice about the holes Mr T,
I was intending to, then on reflection, suspected it may lead to injury! To be honest, I have now given up the idea of an early Mot, and will plod on and finish the beast to the best of my ability, and the Mot will naturally come after that, with all things working present and correct. |
Wiper arms and blades
After much measuring fiddling and swearing, I now know what size wiper blades and arms I need, and have taken Drummajors advice, and ordered what I need from Tex Automotive.
They will have to make the arms to special order, and I should have them by the middle of next week. They will all be in stainless steel, which is something good, but I thought at over £66 pounds, that is an expensive way to remove water from the windscreen. Or am I being tight-arsed? Is £66 a bargain to pay for wipers? Anyhow, it is what I want, and what the car needs, so it must be. |
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I paid £32 for stainless wiper arms and blades, if they were made to measure you will pay more, The problem is these cars look naff without stainless/chrome wipers!
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Hey Scottie
I'm probably too late, but Europa do 'cut to length yourself' blades. I thought about a bucket, but it's only a ten second walk.................. |
Completenovice22, you are quite right which is why I paid so much, like you say our cars have to look the part.
Mick, the blades were only 8 quid plus Vat each, it was the arms I was stung on. To make it worse, the bloody arms are only 8 inches long anyway! Hopefully this is a one-off, and I won't have to use the company again. |
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Yes it was that car that made me do your car in that colour! |
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nos-LAND-R...item566561a6bc or something like these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RANGE-ROVE...item3ef4bd12b2 |
Thanks for that Chris!
Headlight wiper blades! Would not have thought of that one. :-) |
Have you tried the arms from your MK2? They are very short.
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I just went out and measured them, they are short, they are 17 inches from the shaft centre to the end of the wiper blade.
But hey JagTVR, we are talking micro stuff here! I just measured the one I "made up" as a pattern, and it is 13 inches long. So the MK2 ones would not do. But, as I said earlier in this thread, I bit the bullet and paid through the nose to the tune of over 66 quid, and had some made in stainless steel, hopefully the perfect size for the car. When they arrive next week, I will post pictures, watch this space........... |
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The more observant of you may have noticed that my back garden is a lot more visually attractive than the front one.
This is because my front garden looks like a cross between a Syrian refugee camp, and a scrap-yard, but hey, nobody is perfect, perhaps with the exception of my good fiend Mr Towed............ |
Today I rode my bicycle...
...and hit the third planet from the sun quite hard. I appear to have moved my left shoulder two inches to the right. Right shoulder https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...531_190553.jpg Left shoulder with optional lump https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...531_190618.jpg Bet I had more fun doing that than you had mowing the lawn |
Well you most likely did as I've just checked, and both my shoulders
are quite normal! How boring is that? |
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I may have to step outside of this thread for a awhile as i'm not sure where you two are going with these photos, first a pic of your trimmed lawn and bush, then some off-the-shoulder-pics....
I didn't realise that this was "that" sort of forum? It must be due to the lack of females posting on here. :p |
Scottie - For some reason I thought your "tent/garage/workshop" was in the back garden.
But after Dave's post above, I am not sure whether I should mention I like the stripes on your lawn. :rolleyes: So back to the build and given how many things you have made from scratch, splashing out on the wipers seems fair enough. Good luck, Paul. :) |
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