Jeff Lange;1886090 said:
85220-3A050 - LH Wiper
85220-1A020 - RH Wiper
These are the wipers you want for a LHD A70, anything else (especially anything MVP or similar -- part numbers ending in YZZxx, etc. -- are junk).
Jeff
You're a scholar and a gentleman sir, thanks! I know what to ask for for my birthday now...
jetjock;1886092 said:
The stock wipers are good. What makes them and any wiper suck are unclean windscreens. You need to have at the thing once or twice a year with Bon Ami, similar, or an actual glass polish to get the road film off. Cerium oxide if necessary.
Nothing like spreading road grime and general crap all over your window with the wipers, huh? I tend to coat the windows with Rain-X at least once a year, seems to keep visibility as nice as can be expected with the winter weather.
3p141592654;1886119 said:
The mk2 Supra wipers retract. Always thought the mk3 wipers were a downgrade from the mk2.
Maybe that's the car I'm thinking of. I have a Mk2, just don't drive it very often, and it has been a few years since driving it in the rain last (around the time I had the SS as well), so that might be the source of my confusion.
Poodles;1886173 said:
MKII Supra retracts into the cowl. Heavy duty winter blades are more silicone and less rubber, so they stay flexable below freezing.
Considering about 6 months of the year is below 30° where I live, that would be nice. Actually, I think the blades I picked up last year sometime are mostly silicone. Didn't need them though, since as it turns out, parking in a garage keeps your wipers from rotting away.
Poodles;1886173 said:
I never buy cheap wipers. In Texas they don't work well at all (sun will melt them to the windshield in the wummer and the ice in the winter will make them fall apart)
Same problem here, high altitude sunlight just COOKS rubber, so when you need the wipers in the winter, they're brittle and break. If you park outside, wipers are pretty much an annual fall maintenance item.
IJ.;1886237 said:
I replaced mine with 2005 Holden Commodore arms/blades, it wasn't a plugNplay job as I had to keep the rest of the car bolted to them
I'm sure a lot of people are thinking, "WTF is IJ on about now?" seeing this post. Even took me a moment, and I even slept well last night!
My biggest wish with wipers was that they wiped from left to right, rather than right to left. I'm a bit short in the torso, and like sitting as low as I can in the chassis, but it kinda sucks when the part of the window you look through the most is literally the spot where the wiper skips right over on the bottom of the windshield. I don't give two shits how clean the top half of the windshield is, I never really look through it anyway.
Ian, do your wipers wipe left to right, or are all cars right to left?