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hey guys,

found another pretty minor issue with the new car over the weekend.

basically when the car is standing the windscreen wipers are fine, but when im doing up over 50km/hr and turn the wipers on the drivers side wiper runs off the edge of the windcreen actually damaging the paint on the A pillar.

when the wipers are off they reset in a different location each time, sometimes slightly higher up the windscreen than normal, sometimes very low, almost hitting the bottom gutter when they stop.

when they are off, i am also able to move them by hand say about 10cm up and down the windscreen. This is not possible with my gen3 liberty which are tight and i cant physcially move them with my hands at all.

ive got no idea how they work in a gen 3. What could be causing this? Loose wiper arm bars (which are concealed somewhere) ? dead or dying windcreen wiper motor? or perhaps as easy as a loose nut sumwhere? i have also made sure the nuts where the arm connects to the stub bit are tight.

cheers for your help

alex

sounds like the bushes in the arms (under the facia) are stuffed see if Guy Smiley has parts

TOONGA

sounds like plausible explanation. I will have a looksie tonight

thanks Jules

alex

TOONGA wrote:sounds like the bushes in the arms (under the facia) are stuffed see if Guy Smiley has parts

TOONGA

I agree.. I've had 3 cars all do the same.. remove plastic trim under the arms and you'll see all

nope, i had them but its to late now, the half cut is gone:(

guyph_01 wrote:nope, i had them but its to late now, the half cut is gone:(

Grab the ones off the wrecked Impreza.. they will have the same bushes

they cant be replaced, possible but id imagine itd be tricky

they have like a plastic cover over the connection which joins two bars together. This has broken so it just slops around.

last night i made my own custom jobby with duct tape as a bush. Its 100% better than before and they work properly but i can imagine it failing very soon haha.

needs to be replaced properly!

alex

just found this pic on the net, dispalys whats broken on mine.



because that plastic white cap is broken it allows the pin that connects the two linkages together to move around.

Yeah Alex.. they can be replaced but not from new (as I understand it) as Subaru only sell them as complete linkages but just grab a set of good 2nd hand ones and with some needle nose pliers, you'll be able to get them out. I'd check all 4 of them bushes.. might as well while you have them out.

Worst case is look for a set of linkages of Fleabay

yeah our gen3 sedan does the same thing

From an older thread with the same issue;

showpost.php?p=150076&postcount=2

wow ive never even heard of this problem before and now its popping up everywhere! seems very common.

seems like im lucky my liberty hasnt suffered the same problem...YET.

alex