Current thinking on wiper blades

[Ted2]

Hi gang,

I need wipers for my '56. What is the current thinking on who has the best replacements?

Thanks,
Ted

[Karly]

Mine are trico brand and I've been getting by on old stock - they are getting harder to find, family member has Wolfsburg West blades on hers and is happy with them. I just use heaps of rainx on the screen so you barely need to use wipers.
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1960 Beetle ''Heidi" daily driver
1964 Karmann Ghia project

[*Darren]

What are you using now and how correct do you have to be? IF you have correct wipers currently, you know the arms and blades are all in one, you can either cut blades or buy the entire arm/blade replacement (not cheap). Cip1 had them have not checked recently.

[ZENVWDRIVER]

I have been buying VW wiper blades - lots of them - for the past 40 years, mostly at swap meets.
I see them advertised on thesmba and elsewhere for BIG bux. Always have my eye-out for really inexpensive ones @ under $10 and always buy really inexpensive ones, when I see them. I don't know what nutty people would buy a pair for a hundred bux. - must like wasting their money, I guess...
I will buy longer bus ones. black ones, silver ones, gray ones - any - even Chinese or Taiwanese ones.
If they are not the correct length, i'll snip them to a proper size...
I don't know, but i'll bet I have 20 just waiting to be used. Our 1960 SC wipers don't work and if it's raining, I don't use it -
Must also say, I rarely take my old VWs out in the rain - love the slower intermittent option and super-fast speeds of my Civic wiper system...
With a good supply built up, I rarely think 'bout it anymore.
I usually buy ALL my wiper arms and associated parts off thesamba... have a box of all kinds of parts built up over the past 50 years.
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5/50, pastel green 11G - SOLD
8/50, gray 11A Beetle
6/52, pastel green 11C - SOLD
11/4/52, black Zwitter - SOLD to my little bro.
1954 Porsche, pre A, with VW 36 horse- SOLD
1/54, black 11C Beetle - TRADED
2/55 Iceland green Beetle, on a 1965 pan
3/55 113 Beetle, stratos silver
1955 Messerschmitt KR175 - SOLD, sadly
1960 single cab
1962 SO33, with SO 42 interior
9/63 Pacific blue, Ghia
'87 Toyota MR2
'02 WestFORDia E-150, GAVE TO OUR SON

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[EVfun]

Since I drive mine year round I bought a pair of the SWF pinch bolt style wipers for a '58-'64 Bug, like these.

Normally the '58-'64 wipers mount with the long end out and the short end toward the cowl. Instead, because the oval has a smaller windshield and different locations for the wiper shafts, I mount them with the short end out and then cut the long end down so so they fit. Like this:

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[Ted2]

While my Oval is far from a show car it is original, so I'd like to find wipers are a close match to the originals.

Ted

[*Darren]

Then you need to decide, oval wipers in which the blades are part of the arm or use 58 up. If you have never seen oval wipers look in the classifieds and then look at the 58 up. Me I'm like most everyone else, cut down 58s. The only real difference is the use of a screw to attach the blade to the arm.
Here's an example.

[ZENVWDRIVER]