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> From past experience, replacing wiper blades has no effect.
You're doing something wrong then (once the guy who replaced a blade on my
car screwed it up so it was twisted the wrong way), or the wiper mechanics
are bent or something. Assuming everything is clean (including the
windscreen as Darren said) then new wiper blades should work perfectly, what
else could be wrong? Do you really think everyone drives around accepting
badly-working wipers?
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scott wrote:
>> From past experience, replacing wiper blades has no effect.
>
> You're doing something wrong then (once the guy who replaced a blade on
> my car screwed it up so it was twisted the wrong way), or the wiper
> mechanics are bent or something. Assuming everything is clean
> (including the windscreen as Darren said) then new wiper blades should
> work perfectly, what else could be wrong? Do you really think everyone
> drives around accepting badly-working wipers?
Well, if it's not fixable, what else are you going to do?
The only thing I can think of is that some people buy more expensive
wiper blades, which consequently work better. (I usually buy the £7 ones
from Halfords. I'm sure they're not the finest qualify, but nobody else
sells 'em.)
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> Well, if it's not fixable, what else are you going to do?
But it is fixable. I would be rather surprised if, after replacing the
blades, you still continued to get a nice arc of muck when you use them. I
just don't understand physcially how having a brand new wiper blade (of the
correc type and fitted correctly) and a clean windscreen (including the area
where the blades rest) would cause that to happen.
> The only thing I can think of is that some people buy more expensive wiper
> blades, which consequently work better. (I usually buy the £7 ones from
> Halfords. I'm sure they're not the finest qualify, but nobody else sells
> 'em.)
How about going to the Renault garage to buy the original ones meant for
your car?
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scott wrote:
>> Well, if it's not fixable, what else are you going to do?
>
> But it is fixable. I would be rather surprised if, after replacing the
> blades, you still continued to get a nice arc of muck when you use
> them. I just don't understand physcially how having a brand new wiper
> blade (of the correc type and fitted correctly) and a clean windscreen
> (including the area where the blades rest) would cause that to happen.
It's not that it leaves muck behind, just that it swears the water
around. Parts of the screen are cleared of water, and other parts aren't.
> How about going to the Renault garage to buy the original ones meant for
> your car?
Heh. Well, I guess there might be one in England somewhere...
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>> How about going to the Renault garage to buy the original ones meant for
>> your car?
>
> Heh. Well, I guess there might be one in England somewhere...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=renault+dealer+milton+keynes
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>>> How about going to the Renault garage to buy the original ones meant
>>> for your car?
>>
>> Heh. Well, I guess there might be one in England somewhere...
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=renault+dealer+milton+keynes
OK, so what do we have here...
Camden Renault, which shut down last year.
Select Car Sales, which is in Bletchley. (But I guess that counts...)
A place in Bedford.
Pilling Mazda, which is an official Renault dealer? In Westcroft (so,
fairly close by).
And that appears to be it, at least as far as Google Maps can tell me.
Checking http://www.dealer.renault.co.uk/ ... Yes, apparently Pilling is
the only official dealer.
So I guess there are a few in this country, they're just rare.
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> "scott" <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
>>> Quizzical fact: I passed my car driving test first time, in about 10
>>> minutes, after one driving lesson and driving through a red traffic light
>>> and parking on the pavement (sidewalk) in a major city.
>>>
>>> How?
>> Because they were desperate for people to drive stuff in the war and were
>> handing out licenses to anyone with at least one leg and one foot? :-D
>
> You were learning to drive an emergency vehicle?
>
>
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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Stephen <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > "scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >>> Quizzical fact: I passed my car driving test first time, in about 10
> >>> minutes, after one driving lesson and driving through a red traffic light
> >>> and parking on the pavement (sidewalk) in a major city.
> >>>
> >>> How?
> >> Because they were desperate for people to drive stuff in the war and were
> >> handing out licenses to anyone with at least one leg and one foot? :-D
> >
> > You were learning to drive an emergency vehicle?
> >
> >
>
Your 'car' was an invalid carriage?
The 'driving test' was actually a driving mission in Grand Theft Auto?
Ah, I dunno
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:40:00 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:14:17 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:37:40 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> How?
>>>>> Your examiner was blind? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Nor drunk.
>>> Hmmm...you weren't in the UK?
>>>
>>>
>> Aberdeen
>
> Doing a test at the proving ground and the test objective was to get away
> from something that was about to explode as fast as you could? ;-)
>
> Jim
I've done that in a lifeboat, though.
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Ah, I dunno
>
Give in?
I had just started my test and had stopped at traffic lights in the
outside lane of a dual carriageway. Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling I saw a
fire engine approaching me at speed in my rear view mirror. I told the
driving tester that I was going to move into the gap between the
follow me, turning right. The road ahead was too narrow for him to
overtake me if I pulled into the side. So I told the tester that I was
going up on the pavement. After the tender had passed, the tester told
me to put the car back onto the road and stop after taking the next
turning. He then asked me to do a three point turn and a couple of easy
questions. I thought that he was just going through the motions. He then
said that I had passed and never mentioned the fire engine at all. The
whole test lasted less than 15 minutes.
I have dined out on that story for years :-)
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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