Fitted rear spoiler, rear wiper arm hits it

**JuzzyD** · 7th September 2007, 19:47

Finally got round to fitting the rear spoiler to my estate last night (I know pics are the law, but I need to wash the car first before I dare take any pics...).

All fine until I had to use the rear wiper today - it swings round and taps the underneath of the spoiler as it passes

I can only assume that somehow my mate and I managed to bond it "too" well to the car and the middle bit has stuck a bit lower than normal, buts its a bit late now to do anything about its position.

Any suggestions as to what I can do? Has anybody fitted the arm from the Skoda Octavia estate as in the pic below? If so, is it shorter than the standard arm? (pic thanks to a post by sig63 in another thread)

**John35** · 7th September 2007, 22:58

what spoiler did you get. I'm on the hunt for one. don't want the same thing to happen to me.......

**sig63** · 8th September 2007, 13:04

Try fitting the Signum wiper blade: the Signum wiper is smaller but I don't know if it is because of the wiper blade or the wiper arm

**JuzzyD** · 8th September 2007, 18:52

Originally Posted by John35

what spoiler did you get. I'm on the hunt for one. don't want the same thing to happen to me.......

Genuine Irmscher

Originally Posted by sig63

Try fitting the Signum wiper blade: the Signum wiper is smaller but I don't know if it is because of the wiper blade or the wiper arm

Interesting, never thought of that - I'll measure one up. Thanks for the idea!

**Marty J CDTI** · 8th September 2007, 19:24

They are slightly smaller brought one for my vec by mistake.

**parapaul** · 8th September 2007, 20:58

Yep, I've fitted the Octavia wiper arm. Did it at Trax, in fact. (thanks for the wiper puller tool, Mark

)

I asked them for the whole lot, but they only supplied the arm itself, not a wiper blade. So i popped into Halfrauds and picked up a 16" flatblade. It's now about 1/2" shorter than the original arm, but more importantly for you, because its a flatblade, the profile is far, far lower.

Highly recommend it.

(Just make sure you order the wiper arm, a blade, AND the cover that fits at the base and hides the nut)

HTH

**JuzzyD** · 8th September 2007, 21:03

Thanks for the info Parapaul, may I ask what sort of cost it was?

**Gsi3.2** · 8th September 2007, 21:07

Originally Posted by parapaul

Yep, I've fitted the Octavia wiper arm. Did it at Trax, in fact. (thanks for the wiper puller tool, Mark

)

not a problem Paul..

....

**parapaul** · 8th September 2007, 21:09

The arm itself was £22, blade was £10 or £15, the nut cover was er....um....FOC....I might have accidentally 'liberated' one from a display car on the way out of the dealers.....

**JuzzyD** · 8th September 2007, 21:17

Originally Posted by parapaul

The arm itself was £22, blade was £10 or £15, the nut cover was er....um....FOC....I might have accidentally 'liberated' one from a display car on the way out of the dealers.....

Lol!

Thanks. I'll have a look at the Signum are first I think as the arm only just taps the underneath (I've even thought of getting hold of a Dremil to make a hole so it clears - which will help drainage I suppose - but thats got potential to go wrong...) so it may work