Rear Wiper abusers.

Conscript said:
Driving at speed doesn't stop the rear screen getting obscured.
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This thread is about people leaving their rear wipers on in the rain when they are no longer needed. Not about you not washing your car because it's covered in filth. When you are going above around 20MPH they are not needed.
 
Trifid said:
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This thread is about people leaving their rear wipers on in the rain when they are no longer needed. Not about you not washing your car because it's covered in filth. When you are going above around 20MPH they are not needed.
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Yes, they are. Not because the rain falls on them, but because the water spray from the road is sucked up and deposited on the rear screen as an opaque mist.

This happens all the time to me in the rain, which means I often have to leave the rear wiper on.
 
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On my last car, it was easy enough to turn the rear wiper on, but not so easy to stop it.
I mean the 'off' position was there, all right, it was just finding it by feel in between the intermittent, wash/wipe and wash once positions.
 
worse than this is the stupid people who don't realise that the pipes in petrol stations pull out long enough to reach the other side of your car so you don't have to park with the filler cap on the right side.

The amount of times I've pulled up and seen a massive queue where everyone HAS to have the filler cap on the same side as the pump.
 
floatindolphin said:
worse than this is the stupid people who don't realise that the pipes in petrol stations pull out long enough to reach the other side of your car so you don't have to park with the filler cap on the right side.

The amount of times I've pulled up and seen a massive queue where everyone HAS to have the filler cap on the same side as the pump.
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This annoys you? Surely it just means you get to use one of the pumps that they aren't all queued at and get away quicker?
 
Firestar_3x said:
Its to do with the shape of the car and how that makes the air act, stuff clings to the rear, all estate cars are the same, my rear window is usually solid dirt in the winter months.
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Ye i'm aware of that but the op mentioned clios and fiestas which is why I brought the same cars back up again.
 
So much failure to understand OP's point in this thread.

For anyone else unable to read: he doesn't have a problem with people using them, only people leaving them on all the time when not necessary, as this indicates that the driver probably never looks in his rear view mirror!
 
Quite agree with the OP, it annoys me too when i see the wipers going when bone dry, unattentive drivers is the cause obviously.

My list of gripes includes:

1) Fog lights on in all conditions

2) Lack of indicating on motorways, to me the motorways need more indication.

3) 500 magic trees hanging from the rear view mirror

4) Colour coded wheel trims :mad:

5) drivers who still shuffle the steering wheel through their hands then wonder why they didnt quite make it round a corner

6) People who sit too close/too far away from the steering wheel

7) People who dont strap their kids in


My list is endless to be honest, the above are just a few of the main ones.
 
Robbie G said:
So much failure to understand OP's point in this thread.

For anyone else unable to read: he doesn't have a problem with people using them, only people leaving them on all the time when not necessary, as this indicates that the driver probably never looks in his rear view mirror!
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Thanks :) Started to think I'd not been clear enough!

One women the other day had a wiper which had been abused so much it couldn't do a full arc of the screen. The 'funny' thing was she didn't have the front wipers on at all. OK, she'd probably forgotten to turn them off from the last time she used them but the scraping sound of the bare metal against the rear screen should have been enough to trigger a reaction.
 
iaind said:
Similar to the people who switch on either front or rear wiper, then dont turn them off even when the screen is bone dry. Normally middle age women staring blankly out the window
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So you've met my Mrs then have you?
 
On some cars it's actually quite hard to switch the rear wiper off. VWs for example if you don't read the manual what happens is you push the stalk forward to wash the rear screen it ends up being left in intermittent wipe mode that persists even after you stop and start the car. Pulling the stalk doesn't cancel it, and pushing it gives you an extra wipe and sometimes cancels it.

I have to confess that since I've only really had VW hire cars, I couldn't give a crap about knackering the rear wiper and the few times it's annoyed me enough to actually read the manual, someone has nicked it, so I still don't know how to reliably cancel the rear wiper on a VW.

The rear wiper is a 4-way rocker switch on the dash of my Nissan, a 4-way sliding switch on the wiper stalk of my Volvo and 2 push buttons on the dash of my GF's Nissan (rear wipe, latched and rear wash, not latched). I have no idea why VW have to make it so hard.
 
My car doesnt have a rear wiper and its about the only thing I hate.

Seriously the rain doesnt run off the glass it just stays there making the rear mirror completely useless in the rain.
 
what using wipers is illegal now?!...:D

i totally get what you mean, the amount of times I've seen people driving around with a clear screen with no rainfall is quit shocking. It was a nasty habit I picked up when learning to drive and got called on it by my instructor saying the same thing you said.

I've never seen anyone driving around with their mirrors folded though thats quite shocking.
 
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