"TheOnelectronic" (theoneelectronic)
03/04/2016 at 17:48 • Filed to: None
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"TheOnelectronic" (theoneelectronic)
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That’s what I call them at least. I’m curious, though, as to why certain cars use them as opposed to the traditional parallel setup. The two cars I can think of that have them, the current Focus and late 2000's Civics, both have steeply sloped and, presumably, very long windshields. Is it just easier to cover a tall area with a diverging setup? Curvature issues?
aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 17:51 |
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Because they’re cool
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 17:52 |
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I LOVE them on my ST. I don’t understand why it’s not standard on all cars? It’s soo much better than parallel wipers!! ^_^
CounterTorqueSteer
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
03/04/2016 at 17:53 |
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I agree. They were a pleasant surprise when I picked up my ST.
bob and john
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 17:55 |
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the area right at the top is usually obscured by the rear view mirror, where as sometime you do actually look all the way out the passenger side of the car.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 17:55 |
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They probably do a better job of working water toward the sides rather than up. So, in the case of a more vertical windshield, they might work better, where with a more slanted windshield, you could do better with parallel. Mostly guessing here, as I have haven’t seen any empirical data.
Berang
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 17:57 |
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Because they clear to the edge of the windshield on both sides.
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TheOnelectronic
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/04/2016 at 17:59 |
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I feel like I see them more on heavily angled screens, though.
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TheOnelectronic
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
03/04/2016 at 18:00 |
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There are a lot of perfectly valid reasons, but if I’m honest, the reason I’m waiting for an RS instead of getting an STI or actually giving the Golf R a shot instead of just making fun of it all the time is because of the wipers. It’s a weird thing to be particular about, but the shape and movement of the wipers can make or break a car for me. The WRX and STI’s wipers just look too lanky and awkward. I know it would bother me.
BATC42
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 18:02 |
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Easier to cover all of the windshield, and you usually don’t really care about the area behind the rearview mirror. Never heard of any issues with them.
Also, Mercedes’ mono wiper is waaaayyyyy cooler (and apparently they don’t make it anymore)
Cé hé sin
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 18:08 |
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For one thing, you can use the same design for rhd and lhd.
Top trivia: they’re usually driven separately by two motors and without any linkage joining them.
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Cé hé sin
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 18:09 |
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Diverging? Pah.
Meet converging wipers.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 18:17 |
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The 1st gen Chevy Lumina and the GM minivans in the 1990s had them too:
And now, an old Motorweek episode:
PorkchoPlissken
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
03/04/2016 at 18:27 |
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Agreed. They seem to be more effective than the usual setup.
Svend
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 18:50 |
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I suppose it’s for a few reasons.
1, as the windscreens are raked further and further back the surface area is increased so much that a conventional wiper pattern would leave a large area unwiped on the passenger side.
2, engineering and supply costs are reduced from having LHD and RHD set up for different markets.
3, the ‘diverging’ pattern wipes a much larger area leaving the only unwiped area behind the rear view mirror.
Nauraushaun
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 18:58 |
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The Alpine GTA’s wipers meet in the middle. What do you call them!?
jjhats
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 19:30 |
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Others have mentioned the physics behind it but many aren't aware that carmakers are required to design wipers so they clear X % of a windshield. This forces them to be clever to hit the target. My personal favorite is the tri wiper setup on the fj cruisers
Jayhawk Jake
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 20:12 |
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Space issues for the motors?
DipodomysDeserti
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 20:56 |
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My ‘66 GMC has divergent wipers. I just got them working again!
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DipodomysDeserti
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 20:57 |
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Not ragging on you but that's the strangest thing I've ever heard.
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TheOnelectronic
> DipodomysDeserti
03/04/2016 at 21:59 |
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I know. It’s the same part of my brain that hates asymmetric designs and unbalanced forms.
Svart Smart, traded in his Smart
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 22:17 |
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Maybe divergent wipers can be used in left-driving and right-driving countries without modification? At any rate, I quite like them on my Smart Fortwo. The windshield is tall, but not very wide, and I think the relative squareness of the windshield area works well with divergent wipers.
The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> Nauraushaun
03/04/2016 at 22:38 |
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The clappers.
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The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> TheOnelectronic
03/04/2016 at 22:40 |
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Not as cool as the “clappers” on the Renault Alpine GTA.
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Nauraushaun
> The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
03/05/2016 at 05:57 |
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Oh wow. Every time you drive in the rain it would be like a party. Like the car was so happy.
And with a rear-mounted V6 it really would be a party. The kind of party where you wake up dead.
I need one.
Edit: Holy shiiiiiit
this
is simultaneously cheap as chips, well maintained and less than an hour’s drive from me. What am I doing with my life. What have you done
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> jjhats
03/05/2016 at 13:30 |
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I think it’s either Donkervoort or Morgan that also has a three wiper setup.