Wipers - Shorter Wiper Arms?

[daveo 0]

right, this might sound like a stupid question but, would, for example 106 wiper arms fit onto the 205 spindle?

 

i ask this because a want to drop the drives side wiped area down as i find there is a large ares towards the bottom of the screen that isn't touched.

 

i'm using a sunstrip as the car will be rallied in the future.

 

any ideas?

 

if nothing else could i could use a 2nd passinger side arm??

[Cameron 16]

Can't you just rotate the arm round a spline or two on the spindle so it clears the bottom? Or do you mean the semi-circle in the centre of the screen?

[daveo 0]

i mean the circle left in the bottom of the drivers side of the screen. from the seat the bottom right corner

[GLPoomobile 958]

Stating the obvious here - why not simply cut a length out of the arm and weld it back together?

 

An alternative - when I had a gayboy single wiper set up on my first GTI, I used the smooth rear wiper arm from a 306. That had a short blade on it, so might be suitable if you don't mind a single wiper set up. I didn't like it as it didn't clear the top corner, but I guess you are sitting low in a bucket seat so not an issue (and you have the sunstrip). Having said that, since it uses a shorter blade, you might still have just as much uncleared arc at the bottom. In fact forget this suggestion completely and go with my first.

[daveo 0]

haha, i had though about cutting and welding... but lets say me welding skills arn't the best so i might set fire to something!! i take it most pug ones will fit? so its just a case of finding one i like!

[daveo 0]

An alternative - when I had a gayboy single wiper set up on my first GTI, I used the smooth rear wiper arm from a 306. That had a short blade on it, so might be suitable if you don't mind a single wiper set up. I didn't like it as it didn't clear the top corner, but I guess you are sitting low in a bucket seat so not an issue (and you have the sunstrip). Having said that, since it uses a shorter blade, you might still have just as much uncleared arc at the bottom. In fact forget this suggestion completely and go with my first.

 

what i was thinking was, is something similar but using to wiper arms, and using a bigger blade...

 

well thats the plan anyway. wipers arms will be cheep enough from a scrappy!