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Old January 31st 05, 02:28 AM
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"Ulf" > wrote in message
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> How good are headlight washers/wipers at keeping the headlights clean?
> My winter car, a '86 BMW E30, had wipers until one of the previous
> owners removed them. The wiper motors and nozzles are still there but
> not connected (see picture). I've thought about getting wipers and wiper
> arms and connecting everything as it used to be. However, I'm curious to
> how useful they actually are. I realize that they're more than a
> gimmick, but how much more?


I would *love* to have these on my E30. Want to sell the rest of your guts?
:-)

I can't afford to do the conversion but I've heard of guys doing it from
scratch.

If your driving was all in town or all freeway, you may never care, but my
mix of country and city driving would make them a big deal for my car.

I do a lot of 300 to 400km runs where the middle 250km is on freeways at
relatively high speed.. In winter I get a lot of accumulated crud on the
lights and once I get off the highways onto the back roads for home, with no
other lights in the countryside, I can *really* tell the difference between
clean and dirty headlights. I clean them at every single gas stop and
sometimes even pull over to do it with a squeegee I keep in the car,
although since upgrading my bulbs I don't have to go to those lengths as
often. Washers are helpful, but the automatic wash system on the E32 I
drove for a while drained a lot of fluid as mentioned, and wasn't all that
effective really. Washer/wipers with fully manual controls would be ideal
imho.

-Russ.



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