Wiper Arms – Not Contacting Hard Enough?

Problems with your Wiper Arms?

Member phat78ta shows us how to make our wipers press down harder on the windshield… for no cost. Just a little time spent in your garage.

After all the mods, and a little shot of black spray paint, you can’t tell anything was done, and the arm is straight as it was intended to be. Took about 20 mins of time, and cost ZERO dollars.(Best kind of fix there is!!!)

I was rooting about at the local pull a part trying to see if the wiper arms were any good on the 850 they had there(they weren’t) and had myself a revelation. I found the reason for all our misery on the wipers. The spring stretch is unavoidable, but the solution is quite simple.

I took my wiper arm off the car(if you need me to explain that process, then stop here. LOL) and located the reason for the wiper not making full contact. There is a stop of sorts on the wiper hinge that keeps the arm itself from bending too far towards the windshield.

So my solution was simple. Grind off the stops with a dremel tool, so that the arm can bend further, putting more tension on the wiper itself. That part is soft aluminum, so it will grind easily. Takes a little time to find the right amount to take off, but you want the arm to be able to bent to the point of releasing almost all of the tension on the springs. Too much, and the springs may fall off before you get the arm remounted to the car. IMAG0058.jpg (324.61 KiB) Viewed 14791 times I also went further with this, actually taking the springs and cutting a little bit off the end and re-bending a hook on them so they stay in the slots. I couldn’t get the camera on my phone to focus in close enough to snap a pic of the re-bent springs, or I would show what I did there.

After all the mods, and a little shot of black spray paint, you can’t tell anything was done, and the arm is straight as it was intended to be. Took about 20 mins of time, and cost ZERO dollars.(Best kind of fix there is!!!)
Once again, the wiper makes full contact all the way through the sweep, and doesn’t leave any streaks. If you have any questions, feel free to post them, I will try to answer them if I can. Thanks for looking!!!

A “REAL” fix for the 850 wiper arms

Bonus! 10 Interesting Volvo Facts

• In Latin, the word Volvo means: I spin. Today however the nearest meaning is “I roll”.
• Volvo was founded in 1924. The two founders were Gustav Larsson and Assar Gabrielsson.
• The ÖV 4 is the first Volvo car. The first car was sell-ready in 1927. The 2-Liter, 4-cilinder car got the nickname: Jakob.
• Volvo’s very first commercial vehicle was the Type-1 truck. The release year was 1928. In the same year, Volvo released the second car, the Volvo PV 651. Volvo manufactured a total of 1383 of both vehicles in the first year; of which automaker exported 27.
• This trend saw a sharp rise in 1932 when Volvo released a good amount of 10,000 vehicles, both trucks and cars.
• The company, however, started making a large-scale profit from the year 1935. The first luxurious car by Volvo was the PV36, which could carry six passengers at a time. The design of this iconic car paved the path for future Volvo cars to come. I came in the market with a price tag of 8,500 Swedish kronor.
• Volvo touched a landmark in 1941, with the sale of its 50,000th vehicle; this is a unique achievement considering the time when WWII was in full swing.

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Last Updated on December 29, 2020