

No contest.My boat may not look as good as some of the showboats at the Government wharf, but it gets us there and no blood on it. Once a season it gets a polish of Meguires as others have mentioned, and is good as new again.I wish I could rub some parts of me with Meguires and again look as new.The point is, in a sudden downpour into the sun, - I gotta see. Oh yeah, and Deer changing places!My 1963 Star craft still has its original wiper and shield and only gets switched on at intervals when needed.

From our island cottage theres markers and bottom growlers to navigate not to mention kids in kayaks caught in the storm, or endangered Trumpeter Swans in the traffic channel. I believe I did the same thing.For me its no contest, I need wipers.When we must go to the mainland for whatever reason, I need to see the way. Through the years the hood has sunken down enough to catch the wiper arm against itself, my arms both have deep scratches that have developed from continued use and the clunking against the hood.There's many threads full of info on this subject to search on and find more information.If you could set me up with a link of any kind, I would be most grateful.

This is a well know oddity of the E34, the 'right way' to do it would be to refill the wiper blade itself, instead of the whole arm.What I did instead was replace that arm with another passenger side arm, its an inch off in size, but saved me the hassle and it doesn't bother me too much.The clanking sound as it ends its cycle also occurs on my car and probably a couple of others members cars as well. Through the years the hood has sunken down enough to catch the wiper arm against itself, my arms both have deep scratches that have developed from continued use and the clunking against the hood.There's many threads full of info on this subject to search on and find more information.

Very simple yet stupid problem that I've been faced with.The driver side windshield wiper arm is on backwards, and only after 4 months of owning the second-hand car on which this problem was found, did I realize this.
