2010 1.33 : How Do I Remove Rear Wiper Blade?

[oldie68]

I've just bought some new wipers blades for my Mk2 Yaris, French built.

The front ones I can remove easily, but I just can't get the rear blade off. According to the instructional video, the old blade just slides off, and you slide the new blade on.

The new blade has a single crossbar slightly less than half way down the fitting at the end of the arm, so I assume the old one is the same. Whichever angle I turn the blade to, relative to the arm, I can't move the blade from the arm in the slightest. Obviously I don't want to apply too much pressure, in case I damage the arm.

Could there be a catch I have to press up, or possibly down?

There's actually no urgency; I was buying the front blades anyway, so I added the rear one because the P&P would cover it. I could probably leave it till the next time I have the car serviced (next September), or until I'm near a Toyota dealer..

[TomdeGuerre]

Is your wiper like the one in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk1s-8WXp8A

[oldie68]

Thanks, they look similar, but there are differences. The wiper arm in the video has a "jaw" into which the crossbar goes. Also the wiper blade has a sort of step in the side. The Yaris wiper has a diagonal slope from the highest point to the arm.

My blade has a "cutout" 4.5cm long, with the crossbar about 2cm from the top. The top of the fitting at the end of the wiper arm is curved, and the bottom is flat.

This is the blade I've bought :

http://www.wiperblades.co.uk/french-build-years-2006-to-2011/wb-rb-12-2-specific-fit-rear-screen-wiper-blade/

I've no idea how good it is : until I can get the old one off, I can't get the new one on.

[mrpj]

On the Mk2 Yaris I briefly owned it was removed by lifting the arm off the window and turning the blade very similar to the video in Tom's post. The blade then just pulled off but not at right angles to the arm. Sort of away from the arm and towards you, hard to describe! I'm sure it was shown in the handbook.

The "crossbar" is clicked into the slot on the arm by installing at the same angle as removal. Just make sure the new one is the same way round as the one that comes off. It does need a reasonable pull to unclick.

The blade on my Mk 3 is like that in the video. I'm fairly sure the Mk 2 didn't have that secondary locating slot.

[oldie68]

Thanks, I've managed to do it now.

If you hold the fitting at the end of the arm vertically, there's a slot at an angle of about 40 - 45 degrees above horizontal. This terminates in a circle. Obviously, there's only one angle at which the blade can be removed. It's just a pity that that's only clear when the blade has been removed.

If you bend slightly over the point where the blade and arm meet, you can actually see the outside end of this slot. So you just need to push from the centre of the fitting in the direction of the outer end of the slot. With the blade at whichever angle you feel most comfortable with.

To fit the new blade toy just push the crossbar down the slot.

Having fitted all three wipers, I tested them using the screen washers. The rear one left streaks of water within the swept area : does the blade just need to settle in?

[TomdeGuerre]

Thanks, I've managed to do it now.

If you hold the fitting at the end of the arm vertically, there's a slot at an angle of about 40 - 45 degrees above horizontal. This terminates in a circle. Obviously, there's only one angle at which the blade can be removed. It's just a pity that that's only clear when the blade has been removed.

If you bend slightly over the point where the blade and arm meet, you can actually see the outside end of this slot. So you just need to push from the centre of the fitting in the direction of the outer end of the slot. With the blade at whichever angle you feel most comfortable with.

To fit the new blade toy just push the crossbar down the slot.

Having fitted all three wipers, I tested them using the screen washers. The rear one left streaks of water within the swept area : does the blade just need to settle in?

It's good that you came back and updated the post to say how you got on. I'm sure what you describe makes perfect sense to you but it might not to anyone who hasn't actually changed one of those particular blades. I had a look at mines the other day and it works just like that one in the video.

re the streaks of water left on the screen - hmmmm. i wouldn't have thought the blade would have needed much settling in. Used to get these if you changed the rubbers only and they weren't exactly the right size. Clean the rear glass as vigorously as you like but be very careful cleaning the actual rubber blade, it's not hard to do more damage than good.

[oldie68]

TomdeGuerre.

It's actually difficult to describe, but hopefully it'll make sense to anyone trying to remover theirs. I didn't bother to mention that it's actually possible, from one particular angle, to see past the rubber into the fitting, so you can see the slot and the crossbar. If you're discarding the wiper, it's probably easier if you take the rubber off first.

I can only assume that the Auris fitting is different to the Yaris one.

There were only two or three thin arcs of water; I imagine that in use they'd just be a couple of streaks of dirt. I'm now waiting for it to rain so that I can test them : at the moment, I shouldn't have long to wait.