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[Aaron_Gardner]

In brighton i saw a car with a rear wiper and jet on it, can u buy this kit anywhere? or is it a custo thing ?

cheers

[Sleepy Stu]

In brighton i saw a car with a rear wiper and jet on it, can u buy this kit anywhere? or is it a custo thing ?

cheers

Old skool only fitted as standard on the ERA turbo if IIRC but somebody please correct me if im wrong. Very occasionally they pop up on ebay but they are like hens teeth!

Edited by Stewart_GT, 20 May 2008 - 10:23 AM.

[Ouster]

Last time I saw one on Ebay, I think it went for about £70.

[Ethel]

You could make a better one out of a front wiper set up. The motor was in the middle of the boot opening on the one's sold as rear wipers.

[analogue_radio]

If you know what you're doing then I'd imagine it's pretty easy to do, & it'd look pretty cool.

If I ever strip mine down completely I'd want to install a rear wiper, is it possible to hook up a jet system though? could you run a pipe from the front, I'd imagine you'd loose too much power for it to squirt out the rear jet.

[Ethel]

Quite a few cars have rear washers fed from under the bonnet. Metro Turbos did it the other way round. Don't MPI's too?

[1987_ParkLane]

Should be easy if your mini has the washer bottle in the boot, bit of a fiddle, but could be done.

Cheers

[cambiker71]

Not too difficult to do using an early two pump metro washer bottle just run a long piece of pipe up one of the pillars in the same way as the wiring loom goes, i pulled the pipe out of a scrapyard astra estate!! Add a switch for wipers and pump somewhere, the worst (read scariest) bit is measuring and drilling the rear panel in the right place for the washer and wiper wheelbox, i mounted the washer below the rear screen as it was easiest to fit, also the rear screen is slightly shorter in height than the front one so you'll need a wiper arm either from a morris minor (what i last used) or the trico ones that are adjustable in length, wiper blade is the same though. i used an early wiper motor fom a landrover (similar to a mk1 type but far far cheaper) with 3 mounting screws through the parcel shelf and modified the wiper wheelbox cable to suit the length. Took about an afternoon of fiddling to make it all work properly.

[wakkoboi]

i think there is one for sale at the moment in the for sale section?

http://www.theminifo...showtopic=83880