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Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “Actually, the wipers work perfectly fine. This is just a hands-free way to floss safely while driving.”
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Hmm.. maybe I should have paid more attention in the electronics course. The wipers have to be managed manually but the steering wheel now days seem to handle it’s own.
Hey, we share the random avatar!
Or at least kinda, the colors are switched…
It’s like a manual transmission. You really aren’t driving a car unless you’re the one changing the gears or wiping away the rain.
I actually had to do this once when my wipers broke and I was far from home. (It was Turkey Day, so nothinhg was open!) We used the laces from my son’s soccer cleats…
Ahh…they were definitely simpler times then. How did we ever get by? No GPS…no cruise control…no power locks/windows/wipers/mirrors…no Rain-X…
The driver completes the setup by affixing the other ends of the string to his dog’s tail in the passenger seat during inclement weather. If you want the wipers to go faster, simply dial up the praise another notch. There is even an intermittent wiper option: “Good boy! Bad dog! Good boy! Bad dog!…”.
“You are confusing dog and he is not sure of if he is in calm, submissive state.”
so to get the wipers to clean the rain from the windshield you have to have the windows down…
Actually, the wipers work perfectly fine. This is just a hands-free way to floss safely while driving.
Win!
You gotta pull the strings by connecting them to your earrings and shaking the head!
I remember having to do this once as a kid when the windshield wipers on our car broke. It actually worked quite well!
George just couldn’t understand why everyone else tied the string around their index finger in order to remember something…
trying to remember that the wipers don’t work.
Just wait ’till he adds the second one. Things’ll get even more confusing then!
sounds like ozzy’s been here
I think this could work without too much inconvenience by simply wrapping the rope around the steering wheel. A few sudden and violent swerving motions and your windshield is water free!
or maybe you could wrap it around your head. A few sudden and violent head banging movements and the windshield is water free!
We did that with our 1976 Datsun B-210. It was a manual transmission, so my wife “ran the wipers”while I drove. We tied work boot laces to the wipers (both of them). It got us the 20 miles we needed to get home
If you see a car going left and right and hitting all the citizens on the boardwalk… Don’t worry, he’s just cleaning his windshield while driving.
Years ago Ramblers used vacuum wipers which were notorious for failing. I saw a guy who had to tie a string to the wiper arm to pull it back because they only worked in one direction.
Tie the cords to the steering wheel and swerve frequently.
So…is this just like a more succinct version of ck159′s comment?
MST3K the movie: “Put me on intermittent, Joe”
“Just another day in the salt-mines.”
Don’t get it. Is it one of their running gags, like “Watch out for snakes!”?
It was the first line that popped into my head. “Would you like some ram-chips?”
30 years ago and driving south on I 57 in Illinois my wiper motor went out. Husband was following me home in another car which was a stick and I could not drive a stick then. He took the laces out of his chuck’s and tied one to each wiper and me and his 3 year old son drove home the next 45 minutes in serious rain! I was never so frightened in my life! We didn’t pull over because the rain was not supposed to let up for more than a day. I kept thinking if the boy let go…it was horrible and I ill have nightmares tonight thinking about it again!
You know can you imagine having a three year old in the front seat doing this and not even having him in a car seat? Man this brought back some bad memories. Thank God we made it home in one piece!
Yeah, various family members have had to do something similar. And one friend somehow lost the wiper blade, so he affixed a mitten to the wiper arm.
But I think a story my mother told beats it. Back in the day, circa 1930, during a snowstorm my grandfather had to drive to town. But without a windshield defroster… So he put a candle on the dash!
I should have emphasised to the seller, that I’d buy the car as long as there wre no strings attached.
Tom & Ray from Car Talk actually told someone to do this when their wiper motor stopped working. I didn’t think they really would!
I imagine there’s a pull start on this thing too.
I once attempted this to deal with a bad wiper linkage, but it didn’t work – too much friction. Now, if I could’ve rigged a system of pulleys and booms. . .
I’ve seen a wrc rally car do the same thing once. Needless to say, he didn’t win the race.
I was going to say the exact same thing!!! Professional rally car drivers are taught to temporarily operate broken wiper systems with strings, and they carry strings in their cars for this purpose.
WRC drivers are also taught to pour engine oil into brake or clutch systems when there’s a leak just to complete the stage.
a perfect candidate for rain-x
Omg! This is my car!
Another solution to a wiper problem: Decades ago, when few had VW beetles, I was waiting for mine when someone also in a beetle drove by on the highway, in the rain, and a woman was standing through the sunroof wiping the windows while a man drove the car. Of course, as my wife will assure you, that won’t work for everyone.
I test drove a car like this. It worked pretty good!
try moving your wiperblades by hand, and see if this can work
Its a Lada Priora
Actually, when I was 16 I had a car that required manual string pulling, or the wipers, at least the driver’s side, would flop over the side view mirror and twitch spasticaly.
I still remember the pointing and laughing as my high school peers in thier daddy-bought Mustangs laughed at me and I push started my 20 year old car and work my wipers with a string.
It’s character building, right?
did this once with a 1950 studebaker 1 1/2 ton truck, driving through downtown chicago in pouring rain…worked quite well…better than rain-x or tobacco pouch…
course, we had the hitch-hiker working it…
I followed for about 10 miles some idiot who did this in a spring snow storm back in the 80′s
Not easy to drive while hand operating your wipers
I actually had to do something like this one time. I was driving home from college and the driver side wiper stopped working. I ties a cord to the wiper that was working to puul it right and ran a cord through the vent window. (I had a 74 VW Bug at the time.) to pull the wiper back to the left. I did this for about 150 miles. Great fun!
Had to do the same thing on a Jeep in 1986 in Germany, the Army was too cheap to just fix the wipers.