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Am I going mad? (Aero Wipers)

sam_white
in Skoda Fabia Mk1 (1999-2007)

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Fed up with my crappy wipers on the Fabia so I'm looking at replacing them with some aero wipers.

Looked into this a couple of years ago when I bought the car but decided it wasn't worth the hassle ... I seem to remember there was some way of getting OEM aero wipers to fit by changing the arms to those from another VAG car, then buying OEM aero wipers to fit, instead of the Bosch Aerotwins. Cost was about £80 when I priced it up.

Can anyone remember this mod? Part numbers? It seemed like the best idea before the aftermarked aero wipers became available.

Cheers!

Polo?

Check this part number out: 1J2998002

It's what i have on my Fabia at the moment, retro fit kit from VW.

Made to install aero wipers to factory arms.

Cheers

Kev

Fed up with my crappy wipers on the Fabia so I'm looking at replacing them with some aero wipers.

Looked into this a couple of years ago when I bought the car but decided it wasn't worth the hassle ... I seem to remember there was some way of getting OEM aero wipers to fit by changing the arms to those from another VAG car, then buying OEM aero wipers to fit, instead of the Bosch Aerotwins. Cost was about £80 when I priced it up.

Can anyone remember this mod? Part numbers? It seemed like the best idea before the aftermarked aero wipers became available.

Cheers!

Don't bother. My experience of aero-wipers is that they are rubbish. I've had Valeo ones and Wiperblades.co.uk own brand and they were both appalling. Stick with normal Bosch ones if you value visibility at all.

Though I guess performance might be different with OEM rather than retro-fit items.

We sell them out at £25.60 inc VAT. I have 5 sets in stock, they're the genuine VW AeroSet ones..

Cheers

Kev

Edited by Jabbasport

I have Goodyear Aero type wipers on my Furby VRS. Bought from Costco at £6 per wiper. Absolutely brilliant and fit directly to the original wiper arms without modification :)

+ 1

These were the first and probably best thing I bought for my vrs, my standard wipers made a horrible scraping noise above 70mph these ones have eliminated that noise and provide a very good clean with no modification to the arm needed! On another note they look better aswell and for £20 (roughly what I paid) can't really go wrong

do you get the blades with these?

Yeah just a matter of taking the old ones off and new ones on, really that simple. Had mine on for over 7 weeks, cant fault them at all, made me do the polo rear wiper mod I was that impressed with the difference

do you get the blades with these?

You are buying the blades. What did you expect from a place called "WiperBlades". :dull: You don't need to change the wiper arms, they fit onto the normal "hook" type arms.

It's the rear wiper that you have to buy the whole thing. Strangely Polo drivers want the solid Fabia wiper, and Fabia drivers want the Polo one.

Edited by Jim H

Strangely Polo drivers want the solid Fabia wiper, and Fabia drivers want the Polo one.

Do we?! Never seen that said anywhere! ON the Ibiza, people want the Fabia blade, but not the Polo to my knowledge.

+3 for Bosch Aerotwin. Wiperblades' service has always been top notch too.

Haven't been on that long, but fitting was easy, and they look and sound good, with a good sweeping action. Whether they last or not, time will tell.

Has anybody tried using rainex on their windscreen? I found this made the wipe much clearer! (or could try any other rain repellent or waxy car wash)

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I have been thinking about the Bosch aero wipers, but they're retrofit and I was hoping to keep the factory look - just jealous of the blades on my mates MKIV Golf. Have already eyed up his arms but they don't have the kinked arm the Fabia has, like most cars they're straight arms so I don't think they'll fit.

Without going outside in the snow, can anyone tell if these Polo arms might fit?

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I realise they're not aero, but I'm sure a VW dealer could supply me with some that were. Looks like they have the right kink in the driver's arm.

My parents had it (or something like it) applied when they got their car and it was great before it wore off, then it went all streaky and made it really bad to use the wipers. Couldn't get it off either, seemed to need more applied to fix the issue.

If reapplying etc isn't an issue, I like it. Once worn/wearing off, it was annoying.

I found RainX to be ok but it doesn't last very long. I've used http://www.jdmperformance.co.uk/item_detail.php?prodID=59957 and it seems quite good and lasts, but sadly it has been end of line for a long while now. I think I paid a couple of quid when it was on clearance in local motorfactors.

I believe there are long discussions on such products on detailing world, I don't know what the "in" product is at the moment but it used to be Aquapel.

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