Show me your headlight wipers

[panhard65]

The Rolls ones are rather nice if a bit useless.

[BavarianRetro]

[martc]

'Headlight cleaning' became compulsory in Sweden in 1972 for all cars sold there. When I was there in 1990 there were Ladas and Skodas with headlight wipers.

[Cleon-Fonte]

[ProgRocker]

I've never seen the ones on the Italian cars with round headlamps before! Wierd yet wonderful.

 

I was about 7 years old when my parents got their Vauxhall Royale. 8) Those headlamp wash/wipers fascinated me!! Their boxy Carlton 2.2 CDi had them too. Those Vauxhalls the only cars they had to have them. None of my cars had them.

 

It always interested me that during the late 1970s and up to 1987 Ford only had washers whereas GM had wipers with the washers. That changed with the phase 2 Sierra from 1987 with it's flush headlights: standard on the Ghia spec and above iirc.

[rantingYoof]

I could never figure out how to operate them admittedly...

 

 

 

Aaaaaand now I'm pining for my Lolvo estate again. Sigh.

[Ghosty]

Headlamp washers are automatic - they only work when the lights are on and you use wash/wipe.

[Bobthebeard]

The headlamp wipers on our Saab 9-5 packed up in March. Occasionally worked, but parking at a jaunty angle. Removed them in April.

[Zelandeth]

Knew Lada used them on the Riva (standard on the Riva GLS/2106/7), never knew they were used on any of the Skoda's of that era though...any photos?

 

Found the ones on my Saab really useful driving around Scotland in the winter when everything ended up games in salty crud. The increase in light output when you hit the washers was very obvious.

 

Got through a fair amount of washer fluid though!

[Snipes]

I found Rivas when I was searching for the s12 picture.

[mk2_craig]

One of these threads that pops up from time to time

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/10596-headlight-wipers-are-sexy/

[TagoraSX]

[CortinaDave]

I've always been a fan of headlight wipers. Used to love watching them on my old Sierra Ghia. Last car I owned that had them was a Saab 93.

 

My Cortina has the optional headlamp power wash inbuilt to the overriders, but no wipers.

[myglaren]

[RobT]

Facelift Cavalier CD ones, quite unobtrusive and boring really. But they still work.

 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

One of these threads that pops up from time to time

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/10596-headlight-wipers-are-sexy/

 

An even better thread is @Zantimisfit's Swedish Spottings thread, which is PACKED with weird headlamp wipers. He even posts close ups of those on the Mini, Allegro and Princess. 

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/21523-summer-holidays-cars-old/

[Snipes]

[chodweaver]

Confession time: I was so enamoured of the headlamp wipers on the ovlov of much regret that they were the only parts I saw fit to remove before it went to see JB. Somewhere, I still have the wiper arms, jets and tubing if someone wants to reinstate or upgrade to such a system on an early V70...

 

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[fordperv]

Facelift Cavalier CD ones, quite unobtrusive and boring really. But they still work.

 

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I absolutely love how the underlight strip has a holder for the wiper on Cavs

[fordperv]

For some reason these look so happy

 

[brownnova]

Always wanted a car with headlight wipers... now I have one!

 

[richardmorris]

Another w124. They don't work though- well one does a bit but the other is seized solid. They've got new ex 2cv cut down rubbers on them though.

[Hendry]

Why did car manufacturers stop fitting headlamp wipers?

 

I used to love seeing them, they were a sign on the likes of mk3 Cavaliers and Sierras of a high spec one, in the same way certain other things marked the car out as not being a lowly Envoy, L, LX, or any of the myriad low spec special editions they did on those cars.

[Noel Tidybeard]

prolly cos plastic lenses would get scratched to fcuk

[Hendry]

prolly cos plastic lenses would get scratched to fcuk

 

Hmm possibly, they get scratched to fuck anyway, so wouldnt make a huge difference, also the lenses go all cloudy and stuff as well, they probably shouldnt have stopped fitting glass lenses, but thats another discussion entirely I guess. 

[fordperv]

When I was about 14, I decided my ideal spec Sierra would be a GLX hatch in Aqua Jade. Mostly because it was the first trim level to get headlamp wipers.

Live the dream

 

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Sierra-1-8-glx-project-garage-find-rare-2-owners-99p-start-no-reserve-/162682234775?hash=item25e09de797%3Ag%3AGawAAOSwbihZxAzl&_trkparms=pageci%253A3b75db44-a040-11e7-9f80-74dbd1807d32%257Cparentrq%253Aae08651f15e0ab1db5f8a66cffd13f64%257Ciid%253A10

[Zantimisfit]

Hmm possibly, they get scratched to fuck anyway, so wouldnt make a huge difference, also the lenses go all cloudy and stuff as well, they probably shouldnt have stopped fitting glass lenses, but thats another discussion entirely I guess. 

 

They changed to washers. Over here that was a requirement 'til a couple of years ago and then it was dropped as it was deemed anti compeititive to have a requirement that stopped people from buying their cars elsewhere in the EU if they wanted to

[MorrisItalSLX]

Depression in a picture:

 

[Guest blx]

Here is for my Fiat 126…

 

 

[Zelandeth]

This needed to be added to this thread I thought...