cars with triple windscreen wipers

[messerschmitt owner]

yes, I know I'm a cheapskate Scotsman and I like cars with a single wiper at the front - like a BX or a merc E series but I was looking at a rusty E-type Shaguar and noticed it had a triple wiper array, and it got me thinking.

 

What other cars have triple wipers.

 

So, we have some E-types, and ...

 

 

umm...

 

 

let me think, yes, the UMM has a triple wiper assembly.

 

But what is it about the Iberians - because the Santana also has triple wipers - teeny, weeny ten inchers, but still three blades.

 

Can we think of a few more?

 

 

[saucedoctor]

ISTR an old, enormous Mercedes with 3 wipers? Grosser maybe?

[mercrocker]

Panhard Dynamic

 

[Timewaster]

Morgan plus4?

[DS20]

Not a triple-wiper setup and not at the front, I know, but there can't be many cars with a tailgate wiper setup like 90s Camrys 

 

 

[Vin]

Panda also came in single wiper flavour too...

 

Only three wiper thing I can think of is Volvo F10. Not a car though...

[DS20]

The not-terribly-attractive Toyota FJ Cruiser has three at the front 

 

[BavarianRetro]

LHD MGB from late 60s?

[BavarianRetro]

http://imageshack.com/i/misthntour076cj

[captain_70s]

Not a triple-wiper setup and not at the front, I know, but there can't be many cars with a tailgate wiper setup like 90s Camrys 

The old Crowns were the same, must be a Japanese thing...

 

[DS20]

I like  

[seth]

 

Not a car obvs.

[Junkman]

Many Voisins.

 

 

Triumph:

[vulgalour]

[Station]

Bugatti EB110 had three blades:

 

[Albert Ross]

I was going to mention Series Land Rover with the centre bar removed. Simmonites did conversions to Lightweights (as above in the 1970s and 80s upon Demob)

[Noel Tidybeard]

my civic has a 28" drivers side and 24" pas side blades so that qualifies as enough bluddy rubber to make 3 wipers shirley

[warren t claim]

Aren't triple wipers a peculiarly septic thing like 85mph speedos and big bumpers? 

[Volksy]

Maserati Quattroporte II had them too. Well the prototype did. 

 

[richardmorris]

It's partly to do with usa insisting that at least 80%of the screen is wiped.

[Timewaster]

E type Jag? Or did I imagine that one?

[twosmoke300]

Saab 9-5 has 3 double washer jets , does that count

[Jon]

[dave21478]

Was thinking about wipers yesterday. I was a passenger in a new style Peugeot Partner van which has one massive wiper and one much smaller one. Now I am not particularly tall or anything, but spent the journey peering out through the huge unswept corner of the screen. How do manufacturers manage to fuck things up so badly?

 

Actually, come to think of it, when I bought the C2, it was pissing rain as I drove home from the auction house and I was massively underwhelmed by the wipers. Turned out that the moron previous owner had fitted them the wrong way round with the teeny one on the drivers side and the huge one on the passenger side.

[spike60]

I bought an Alfa 156 JTD 2.4 and they have 1 long curved wiper and a short straight one. The run back up the M1 was interesting with them the wrong way round, both in tatters, 1 working dip with the bulb in upside down, Good job it was dark, lashing down and only 120 miles home.

[RichardMoss]

My old company car had 3:

[rml2345]

^ Pantograph wipers as well? That's some sort of wiper porn...

[D Spares & Tyres]

I was in awe of a Fiat van with 3 wipers that someone we knew had when I was a kid. It was huge and blue, similar size to those merc vans that snap-on use

[Louise2cv]

Yep its one of the things that used to fascinate me about dads +8.

 

I was a sad child.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Even sadder being a grown adult and being on a forum discussing windscreen wipers........