Window Scrapers Too Short?

[gavbrum 18 1 Cars]

Recently purchased a pair of second hand bottom outer window scrapers.

 

Problem was they were about an inch too short. Now after searching the forum a found that this was a common problem but no solution.

 

Now this may be a common fix but I will go ahead and explain how I got them to fit anyway....

 

I bunged them in the sink and poured over 2 or 3 kettles worth of boiling water. Left them for around 5-10 minutes. Removed them and popped them in a vice (using suitable vice protectors). At 5 equally spaced points along the scrapers gripped the scraper in the vice and pulled. I repeated the process along the 5 points. Checking it against the car there was a noticeable difference in length. Scrapers now fit perfectly.

 

Worked for me.

 

Let me know if it works for you.

 

Cheers,

 

Gav

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

If you pull too hard they can snap VERY easily and they will shrink back very quickly unless you stick the buggers in place with tigerseal or something similar

[gavbrum 18 1 Cars]

I'll keep an eye on them. Seems fine so far.

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

CTIs seem to suffer the worst for this and actually split when they shrink. One of mine has gone this winter

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

the abundance of shrunken 3door ones going spare is handy if you have a 5door tho

[laldy875 6 1 Cars]

did you purchase from stella0788 on ebay? I was just away to buy some

[gavbrum 18 1 Cars]

Got them off 205nuts. Stella0788 never really got back to me on the bits I needed. Must have sent at least 3 emails.

 

Just give him a call on 01761434176 or 07594704863

 

Although he would only sell as a complete set. So I ended up with the inner scrapers and door rubber as well. Was £25 per side but I'll just punt the other stuff on here.

I was pretty desperate as the weather has been so bad so I just went for it.

 

Decent guy to deal with. Mention you are on the forum and see if he'll knock something off the price.