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chojinchef
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Anyone have a 'best brand' as far as wiper motors goes?
Seen em for all sorts of prices, but unsure if comparing apples to apples without better descriptions.
Bus Depot lists a genuine VW at $69.95
Parts Geek has a Febi/Bilstein new unit for $34.30
Some other monkey lists a new one for $14.37, obviously a cheap Chinese model.
VC has a non descript one at 49.95
Thinking I should just drop for the genuine VW one.
LP
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seanjenn
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I need to replace mine as well, it's getting slow and noisey. Also the intermittant feature is long gone.
I would think the Febi/Bilstein unit would be fine, but I don't know.
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chojinchef
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Suppose the question to ask is who is the OE supplier for these motors?
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rubbachicken
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buy a genuine VW part
you get what you pay for
OE supplier, that'd be bosch, no ?
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seanjenn
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buy a genuine VW part
you get what you pay for
OE supplier, that'd be bosch, no ? |
i'd think it would be bosch, but i seem to remember folks talking about certain bosch parts being made outside of germany. also that those parts were of marginal quality(autozone style)and naturally with the price of a legit bosch product. now that i think about it, maybe it wasn't bosch but some other "german" brand. the box would say made in germany and the part would say china or brazil or something.
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Jake de Villiers
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Wiper motors |
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| chojinchef wrote: |
Anyone have a 'best brand' as far as wiper motors goes?
Seen em for all sorts of prices, but unsure if comparing apples to apples without better descriptions.
Bus Depot lists a genuine VW at $69.95
Parts Geek has a Febi/Bilstein new unit for $34.30
Some other monkey lists a new one for $14.37, obviously a cheap Chinese model.
VC has a non descript one at 49.95
Thinking I should just drop for the genuine VW one.
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Considering how arduous a task it is to replace it, I'd go with the genuine article...
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ragnarhairybreeks
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the wiper motor from my '82 westy has on it (aside from VW and Audi logos and part numbers) what seems like a manufacturer's logo of a diamond shaped box with "SWF" written in it. No signs of Bosch at all, FWIW.
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chojinchef
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Just going to go with the VW unit.
From what I have seen, Febi is just a box company now. Guess if the dash is out and I am spending the cash to do the brake master cylinder, heater core, blower, resistor and wiper motor that $30 bucks is nominal in the overall picture.
Thanks all.
Will post pictures (so you can all rejoice in my dash removal misery). Not the first time I have done a dash job (try doing a heater core in a MB S class).
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