I hate my passenger side wiper. With that extra bend in the arm it comes into the middle of my field of view, just enough to get in my way but not enough to any good. It also leaves a mark where it stops that is always in the middle of my field of view. It looks like maybe I could buy a new driver's side wiper to replace the odd passenger side one to have a more typical matching seep of the wipers on both sides of the windshield.
I know I can go measure and can swap the wipers to try myself, and I will, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask the question here on the forums. What do you all think? Will a simple swap give me nice matching sweeps with the passenger wiper not coming into my field of view?
It was making me crazy today driving in in the rain. From my vantage point watching out at the wipers, I thought just the passenger was longer, but someone on another forum indicated it is shorter. I guess I will be hoping he is wrong. I hate it enough to maybe try buying the driver's wiper and trying to shorten it to get it to work if it is longer. Do you guys know if the wipers are the same on the MKV and MKVI, with the weird bent arm on the passenger side?
I measured tonight! I think it might be possible to swap. The driver's arm is shorter, but the blade is longer. It seems it would require reorienting the front wiper higher and with a shorter blade from the passenger side and then duplicating the configuration on the passenger side. I think it could work, but I tested my wife's Honda Accord and it was exactly the same. I'm just not sure it really is a great idea to do the swap, since the Honda was identical. Maybe that really is just the way it is. I guess I can't really blame VW, even though it bugs me. I had a single wiper for 15 years in my Mercedes, so I guess I was spoiled.
I know I can go measure and can swap the wipers to try myself, and I will, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask the question here on the forums. What do you all think? Will a simple swap give me nice matching sweeps with the passenger wiper not coming into my field of view?
It was making me crazy today driving in in the rain. From my vantage point watching out at the wipers, I thought just the passenger was longer, but someone on another forum indicated it is shorter. I guess I will be hoping he is wrong. I hate it enough to maybe try buying the driver's wiper and trying to shorten it to get it to work if it is longer. Do you guys know if the wipers are the same on the MKV and MKVI, with the weird bent arm on the passenger side?
I measured tonight! I think it might be possible to swap. The driver's arm is shorter, but the blade is longer. It seems it would require reorienting the front wiper higher and with a shorter blade from the passenger side and then duplicating the configuration on the passenger side. I think it could work, but I tested my wife's Honda Accord and it was exactly the same. I'm just not sure it really is a great idea to do the swap, since the Honda was identical. Maybe that really is just the way it is. I guess I can't really blame VW, even though it bugs me. I had a single wiper for 15 years in my Mercedes, so I guess I was spoiled.