Windscreen wiper scraping bonnet

[Tom McConnell]

I washed my MG5 for the first time today and found that the passenger side wiper scraps the rear edge of the bonnet when lifting it up to wash the windscreen. The pivot end of the arm is too wide.

I guess this is a right hand drive conversion design issue.

Any one else found this ?

 

[Jeps]

I washed my MG5 for the first time today and found that the passenger side wiper scraps the rear edge of the bonnet when lifting it up to wash the windscreen. The pivot end of the arm is too wide.

I guess this is a right hand drive conversion design issue.

Any one else found this ?

The ZS EV is having a kind of "service mode" if you are going to lift the wipers, maybe the MG5 is having the same! Turn the car off, and then flick the wiper stalk in the car down whit-in 30 seconds, then the wipers end in an upright position.

 

[Tom McConnell]

Good tip thanks !

 

[Fireman frog]

Yep. It's in the handbook

 

[Davloc]

I think they automatically go back to the normal rest position when you next start the car, so make sure they are flat against the windscreen or the arms will hit the bonnet.

 

[Fireman frog]

 

[Fluffykins]

My Passat had a neat trick. When you started up the wipers would move down and up (I think) by just enough to disturb the "sit" of the blade on the screen, flipping it to bear on the opposite face and even out the wear. Nice.