Hi all. Guess you've all come across the aerowipers that have been fitted to lots of newer cars? Well I spent a while looking for the right arms, as you need to change these to fit the wipers. The passenger side is quite easy, but the drivers side wasn't. In the end I thought that there could be a bit of a niche in the market as regards fitting the aerowipers to ANY wiper arm.
The advantages to having the aerowipers are many. Such as, much lower profile, hardly seen from inside when parked, lower wind noise, they don't jump, skip, or make a noise at all or get lose mechanisms. Its the 1st time the wipers have been redesigned since about 1930! Oh yeah they look cool too.
As I've just spent 56k on a new CNC milling machine and some cad software I thought I'd make some test pieces, and instead of making something useless, I thought I'd make something I could use. So I made some adapters to fit standard wiper arms. They are made form Aluminium, and I was going to anodize them black, but I might leave them silver now that I have seen them fitted. You can then use standard Polo aerowipers from Halfords that cost about £18.99!
I'm thinking about approaching a small engineering company to do a small production run of these, maybe 50 Pairs. I will need to change the design a bit, mine are nice, but a bit tricky to machine, I even thought about engraving [JWC Design] into them just to take the p***.
Probably cost my establishment about 3 grand in machine, my time and general pissing about, but they work 100% perfect.
Oh yeah, I'm now pretty good with the software and the machine!
And from inside they are really low profile, you can just see the tops. They also seem to be far less annoying when they are in use. Anyway, it was just about worth the effort.
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