Bad Windshield Wiper Design
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Bad Windshield Wiper Design
Anyone else annoyed with how the TL's windshield wiper would always leave excess fluid on the top of the windshield on the driver side? What is annoying is the fact that this excess fluid would slowly drip down after the windshield is nice and clean. You will need to activate the wipers again, but the rest of the windshield is dry so you will need to spray more fluids. The cycle never ends! This is one of my very few complaints about this car. The other is a lack of an integrated key fob / start button.
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Originally Posted by MC_Hotdog
Anyone else annoyed with how the TL's windshield wiper would always leave excess fluid on the top of the windshield on the driver side? What is annoying is the fact that this excess fluid would slowly drip down after the windshield is nice and clean. You will need to activate the wipers again, but the rest of the windshield is dry so you will need to spray more fluids. The cycle never ends! This is one of my very few complaints about this car. The other is a lack of an integrated key fob / start button.
How would you design it to not leave any fluid on the glass?
Maybe you could go with a longer blade on the driver's side. I don't know if it would interfere with the passenger side arm but it's easy enough to try. But I think the drip you are talking about would still happen.
My last car would do a delayed single sweep about 5 seconds after the burst of sweeps during spraying. It inevitably streaked an otherwise clean windshield. I guess you can't win either way.
#4
The length of the blades usually can't be chaged because they will run off the windshield at one point or another. The sweep of the passenger side arm needs to be longer so the water is swept down by the driver's side arm.
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Originally Posted by MC_Hotdog
Anyone else annoyed with how the TL's windshield wiper would always leave excess fluid on the top of the windshield on the driver side? What is annoying is the fact that this excess fluid would slowly drip down after the windshield is nice and clean. You will need to activate the wipers again, but the rest of the windshield is dry so you will need to spray more fluids. The cycle never ends! This is one of my very few complaints about this car. The other is a lack of an integrated key fob / start button.
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Originally Posted by MC_Hotdog
Anyone else annoyed with how the TL's windshield wiper would always leave excess fluid on the top of the windshield on the driver side? What is annoying is the fact that this excess fluid would slowly drip down after the windshield is nice and clean. You will need to activate the wipers again, but the rest of the windshield is dry so you will need to spray more fluids. The cycle never ends! This is one of my very few complaints about this car. The other is a lack of an integrated key fob / start button.
I suppose the added speed of the fast sweep forces the liquid up past the swept area of the windscreen ? I can't remember if does this on the regular wash cycle as well. Maybe a small adjustment on the nozzle might help.
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#8
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I feel that the single sweep (the push up on the lever) is too fast. It always sprays excess water on the passenger side for me. Then I usually have to put it on the intermittant setting once to wipe the window clean because it goes a little slower.
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Anyone else annoyed with how the TL's windshield wiper would always leave excess fluid on the top of the windshield on the driver side? What is annoying is the fact that this excess fluid would slowly drip down after the windshield is nice and clean. You will need to activate the wipers again, but the rest of the windshield is dry so you will need to spray more fluids. The cycle never ends! This is one of my very few complaints about this car.
Thanks.
#10
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I don't see what the problem is. After I spray mine, I wait a while and then hit the wipers one time and it's gone and no streaking. A single swipe on a mostly dry windshield is not going to hurt anything.
BTW, it's nice to see someone using the search function.
I didn't realize it was an old thread until I got to your post.
BTW, it's nice to see someone using the search function.
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Not gonna lie, ive had similar issues with every car ive ever had. If it doesnt happen in one spot, it will in another.
If this is your only complaint about the car, which i dont even consider it one myself, then consider yourself happy.
If this is your only complaint about the car, which i dont even consider it one myself, then consider yourself happy.
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rain x, if your movin its off the glass
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