Wiper Blades (sorry)

[RW1]

Alan,

I'm surprised the Tetrosyl hasn't moved it. It went so easily when I attacked it. Perhaps that means what ever it is has set ("cured") on your windscreen. If that is the case, spirit chemicals mostly likely won't touch it, removal is more likely to be a mechanical method, no not the hammer!!

Blade shaving. I have a little device which I use when a surface needs "bacon slicing" off.
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But it's probably now best left to the "glass professionals" via your dealer and protecting your warranty.


Checked the date when I tackled my windscreen. I cleaned the "adhesive" off mine near enough 1 month after the Scircco went down the production line in late October.

Like you say, a bummer.

I was looking last night at release agents for windscreen adhesive. Most of these adhesives are Polyurethane based.
You might ask if you go to a screen fitter what to use when this type of adhesive is fully cured.

The second bummer at the moment is the wipers today turning into a fiasco. Not only can VW not supply the new wipers ("E" version), the "other" windscreen smear lightly appeared again this afternoon on the driver's side wiper. I just bent the centre area of the wiper blade carrier more inward on either side of the attachment point, smear gone again.

Chris

[alanstead]

Hi Chris, I've had a breakthrough, and not with a hammer! Mer windscreen cleaner! My friend had a garage buisness and I've been borrowing lots of different cleaners from him and none worked, until today. I popped round to see him on my way back from work and he had found a bottle of the Mer stuff which he'd bought a while back but never tried. I got home and was seriously considering not bothering because I'd lost all interest in my windscreen, but went out and set to on it and after a few minutes the marks began to disappear. I went over the screen four times then finished with glass polish and then sprayed the hose on it and it looked spotless and no signs of greasy marks. I then got in and tried the wipers and hey presto, one squeaky clean lovely smooth screen, finally! The rough patches which you could feel have gone as well so fairly confident that the residue is all gone!! Brilliant. No smears, all perfect. happier than a happy thing!
The Mer stuff is very like a polish, a green creamy liquid, smells nice too. Dont even know if Mer still exists, but would highly recommend it to remove residue off your windscreen.

Alan

[RW1]

Glad you have got it sorted Alan.

Use neat MER all the time for minor paint scratches, but the "stuff" seemed too tough on my winscreen for it at the time, so never tried it. (Its still available)

None of the "stuff" has come back, which is good news and I've got the other type of wiper smear "under control" with bending the wiper blade plastic carrier. Second attempt at bending more severely to obtain a constant plastic carrier to Windscreen distance appears to work and the Rain-X isn't causing any problems either.

C.

[trix]

yes Mer still exisists, i've got a bottle (tried it out on my house windows actually) you can pick it up from halfrauds
their 'rain away' is brill too (they don't support random charities [brake] like rainX)

S

[OisinT]

So has anyone had any luck via VW or the dealer in getting this fixed? Nothing is working for me and I'm starting to go a bit crazy.

[ReubenGT]

I have got the smearing but no rattle, abnd only when raining so when I took it to the dealer in MK he couldn't see what I was talking about! But he did agree to order in a new wiper arm and blade! Unfortunately not before I had to leave to go back down to Poole! so I never got it fixed!

[atayub]

Waheeeeeaaaaaaaay Finally had some jou with my smear. Bough mine in June 09 so did not really have a problem till regular rains set in. To cut a long story short been through the full VW process involving customer service, retailer and technical. In order of tried fixes, cleaned windscreen and blades, had rubber changed, had wiper changed, had wiper arm changed, had windscreen replaced still no joy. The next day after the windscreen change decided enough was enough and went to speak to the services manager at my local dealer. He sat in my car, saw the smear was still there, drove with me in the car to the garage part at the back of the dealership, asked me to wait in the car and got what I found out later was a vw jetta wiper blade.

This is what I had suggested in the first bloody place! Anyway problem solved! Smear gone been about a week and I am very happy with the rest of my car.

Lets hope it stays that way. Never kept a car more then 2 years, this one might make it to 3.....

[RW1]

Whats the VW part number on the wiper? It's on the underside facing the windscreen in font size 6ish. Printed in dot writing on the rubber's plastic carrier part. May be part hidden by the wiper rubber itself. Looks like *K* 955 4** x where * are digits and x is a sub set letter in the range A to Z.

Reason is the Parts System when I looked didn't add up to it being a different item.

Thanks
C.

[ayeaye]

I know there's been a lot of discussions both here and on Net about wipers but I'm not sure if I've got the normal smear problem - basically what's happening with mine is on the driver side up and down sweeps, a patch (full length of the blade almost and maybe 0.5cm thick) is being left on the windscreen which is exactly where the passenger side blade stops on it's upsweep. It's almost like it is grease on the screen - if the car has been left out in the rain for a while, the windscreen is wet and you see two lines on the screen - one on the side vertical where the drivers side blade finishes its upsweep, and then one at an angle just in left eye line where the passenger side blade finishes its upsweep.

Might as well bump this thread

Coincidentally enough, the new Passat CC we tool delivery of a month ago is showing the exact same symptoms of the "greasy smear" at the top of the passenger blade upsweep. Time to get the Autoglym glass polish out again.