[BeBe]

I find the arms/blades obstruct my view also. My wifes Murano has side mounted blades, which allow the arms to be very low -- pretty much behind the blade. Is there something special about the mounting point of the 968 arms that would not allow you to use arms from another model of car that had better arm/blade geometry?

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[flash]

i've said this before, but i don't understand how these can obstruct the view of anything but the hood. you sit up above them. i am short in the back, and often have an issue seeing well over the hood, but the wipers aren't anywhere near obstructing me. maybe they need to be set properly? i see them set wrong all the time.



if it really is a problem, and if you were willing to give up some swept area, you could use shorter straight arms. the bend in the arm is to allow the left wiper to end parallel to the left a pillar and the right wiper to end parallel to the bottom of the windshield, giving maximum coverage.

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[BeBe]

In your bottom picture of post #29, look at the passenger side wiper. The first segment of the arm (from the mounting point over to the pin/joint where it connects to the second segment) goes up at something like a 30 degree angle, a couple inches height from the plane of the windshield. Then the second segment goes pretty much parallel at that height over to the connection point with the blade assembly. That puts the whole arm in prominent view when looking forward from the passenger compartment. Why wouldn't it be possible to use a side-mount blade where the arm was down much lower behind the blade and out of view? I'm 6'3 and the wiper arms still get in my line of sight.

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[flash]

i went back and looked at the shots. as i said there, they are not in my view, therefore are not obstructing it. if i were taller, they would be even less in my way, as i would be then able to see over them better.



just because you can see them, it does not mean they block your view. what is behind them? if it's your hood, then they are not in your way of anything.



look at post #3 and #33 - that is where they should sit, and in that location, they are not in my way at all

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[BeBe]

Yes, it's my hood. I didn't say I can't see to drive. I'd just rather not have the arms so prominently in my view. Sometimes you are looking down your hood also - not always at the horizon.



The arms/wipers are an ugly interuption over an otherwise sleek/rounded hood (assuming the headlights aren't up). Seems like there should be a better (lower/sleeker) alternative out there. I'll look when I go home to see where they rest, but I don't think it matters much because they are so high from the body of the car.

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[flash]

lol - i don't spend any time looking at my hood. why the heck would i? nothing there to see. my eyes belong on the road, on my dash, or on my mirror. therefore, by definition, not in my view.



also, i rather like my wipers being visible. if you look closely, you'll see that they are a bit special.

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[bombfactory]

Flash this is just one of those things that either bugs you or it doesn't, and our 968 wiper arms seem get my particular brand of OCD in a twist. While the wiper arms are in no way blocking my view of the road, they just sit too far off the windshield and look kinda clunky and dumb. My wiper arms are currently off the car and the look without them is super clean - really smooths out the look of the car to get rid of that visual interruption.



My mechanic owns a 951, and I've noticed that the wiper arms on that car are much tighter to the windshield. I'm wondering if 944 wiper arms will work on a 968. They should unless the pivot point locations have changed. I can't imagine why they would have - but then why the change in the arm design?

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[flash]

lol - i guess. they don't bug me, but then i spent most of my life polishing the chrome arms of the mgb.

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[flash]

upon thinking about it, and looking at the arms, they have the profile they do for mechanical advantage. if they were lower, they would not have the downforce on the sweep. you would have to add something to the wiper to add downforce at high speed or in a hard rain.



even ours lift at high speeds. that's why the arms i have feature the wing on them. they came on the 968 Turbo S.



function over form.

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[bombfactory]

I think you're right, Flash. I figured that might be the reason for the design change - a better angle for the spring that holds the wiper down. Which brings up the point though that in this country we're typically not driving 120 mph on a rainy autobahn. I think I might look into 944 arms.

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[flash]

i got caught in a heavy storm on my way bringing the car home. the wipers lifted. i did not have the arms i do now though. i guess it really depends on if you want form or function. if you don't drive the car in the rain, then you can run anything. if you do, then visibility should take priority over invisibility.

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[BeBe]

I don't drive in the rain unless the weatherguessers are wrong. If I find something that fits and looks better, I'll post. Not at the top of the 968 to-do list though.

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[flash]

lol - yeah - me too - i would almost remove them altogether, but for needing them to occasionally smear the bugs.

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[Langley968]

Got caught in heavy rain on the last 200 miles of my trip back from Paso and the wipers worked great! I certainly do not feel that they are obstructing any of my vision.

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