C900 Rear Wash Wipe

in article CObXg.109816$ snipped-for-privacy@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk, Al at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote on 11/10/2006 20:42:

Ah mate, bad news. Sorry I can't help, but I know Aeromotive will have a nice covering plug if you want to remove it :) I'm going the other way ... From no wiper to having one ... If I can find a mechanism at a reasonable cost :(

Good luck with your search. Have you tried UK SAABs? There is certainly one person having a parts clear out at the moment. You might get lucky. Drop a wanted on and see how you go.

Paul

in article CObXg.109816$ snipped-for-privacy@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk, Al at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote on 11/10/2006 20:42:

Actually, at that price I might have a more suitable alternative. On Canal Road in Bradford (the A650 ... You know ... From Wakefield), past Khan's Alloys (where the two Rolls Royce Phantoms are parked up :) ) on the left just before the 4x4 Centre and Arnold Laver warehouse, there's a back street garage that does tyres and another that does stainless exhausts. One or the other of them is selling a J reg 900i in green (five door) no bodykit, but it has a rear wiper. They want 395 quid for it.

Remove the mechanism and re-sell the car :) It's a good'un with very nice, well kept velour interior. Nothing at all special about the car, but it is a good runner. I had a look over it for a friend.

Paul

Nice, Aeromotive had one but it wasn't working either.

I was hoping someone out there might know how easy/difficult they are to disassemble?

Cheers

Al

Older Ford Tauruses (Tauresi??) have a similar style rear windshield wiper (through the glass.) You might want to try using one of those units from a junker.

JB

Al wrote:

Jeremy, I guess I should have said I was UK based and Ford Taurus are less readily available in the UK than Saab 900's! To be honest I was looking for anyone who may have taken one apart. i.e. does it fall to a hundred springs and cogs the moment you take the cover off or is it relatively simple inside the box.

Cheers

Al

While you're at it, you could tell us what a "C900" is. . .

GF

It's been used on this group a few million times to mean "classic 900".

Sorry - not here all that often. I was thinking "cabrio" which really complicates the rear wiper issue!

GF

in article egv44u$1abr$ snipped-for-privacy@biggoron.nerim.net, Greg Farris at snipped-for-privacy@nasa.org wrote on 16/10/2006 06:08:

Sometimes, a 900C is referred to, which was a badging for (late) carburetted C900s. So I suppose that is a C900C :)

Paul

Rear wash wipe on a ragtop would be complicated I'll give you that!

Al

We have to be carefule on these "rear-wiping" threads - things could easily degrade!

GF

Quick update:-

It just started working again, so I never even got round to trying to take it apart. Though it didn't look that difficult from the outside.

Cheers

Al

in article snipped-for-privacy@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com, Al at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote on 11/11/2006 12:38:

Yay! Is it the torrential rain we're having that's completed the ground? :)

Paul

If only it were that simple! Arm was travelling to top and stopping there, but you could still hear the motor running and a push on the blade would assist it's travel back down. Phil suggested a bad connection, but I'm not convinced. Having said that, I'm a Highway Structures engineer not a motor mechanic! I'll take it apart when it fails completely....