Weekend Boredom - Window Wiper Referb

Got a little bored on sat morning, so before the Wales rugby game i deceded to clean the supra.

The rusty windo wipers have been gettin on my tits since i baught her, so i went down to my town, got some wire wool andblack spray paint. I deceided to make use of some old primer and laquer too.

You can see the rust here...

So i took them all off, and marked there locations.

Next i used the wire wool and rubed them down to the origional steel. It took just under a hour to do each.... and i still have metal spliners today you can see the mess they were in.

Next came a coat of grey primer

After it dryed i gentely rubbed it down with very fine wire wool and put the first coat of black on

Then put another coat of black paint followed bye two coats of cleare laqure

Finally i fixed them back to the car

Not bad considering it only cost me £7 for materials

They look like bran new ones now

I know its no big deal, but im a fussy kinda person

Looks a lot batter mate! Top Job!

very nice, i did my front ones recently too, im removing the rear one so left it. gota love that halfords paint, i find it excellent stuff for out the can.

Best stuff by far is what you get from UniPart... really good! for an aerosol

Best stuff by far is what you get from UniPart... really good! for an aerosol

the worst is that CRAP in the green or yellow tins you get from places like motaman, god that stuffs bad.

LOL i had the primer and laqure from when i had my scooby WRX,i was going to spray my intercooler, with a stencil i made for it, butit never happened.

The primer and laqure were great for a couple of quid, I dont think you need TOP DOG stuff for window wipers???

The primer took out a lot of little minute scratches, and the laqure put one hell of a shine to them

ohh thanks for the post mate im fed up with my rusted wiper arms aswell. Im gona go get myself the paint and sort mine out and great job by the way

Nicely done mate. Think I might well do that myself.

I can wack together a ''Guide'' for the rest of you to use if ya like?

Might be usefull - Probably get laffed at tho!

A Guide will be Greatly appreciated

Will do one tomos for ya mate and send it to you, ill put as much detailin it as i can

nice little tip i was thinking about how to sort out mine as though they arnt rusty the paint is wearing away and this looks very effective

looks good im gonna do mine tomorrow

thanks mate gona go and see im a can steal sum primer and laquer from my uncle and start on the rear wiper as i dnt really use that much

Ive created a new thread in Supra Chat - Ive attached my guide as a pdf formatt. You can save it, print it or whatever

Hope it helps

Excellent - the silver and small rust patches on mine are getting on my nerves ... I'll put this on the things-to-do list, after 'attach new wing' and 'replace front tyres'!

Did mine about 2 years ago in black smoothrite (Spray on hammerite) Looked ok but to shinny for me. Just re done them by stripping them down with a wire brush and a drill (takes about 5 mins each one). This time I have re sprayed them with matt black halfords paint, looks much better now.