Some asswipes stole my windshield wiper and arm assembly off my 94 aerostar. I just have the two shafts there. Ive never looked at them before, Im going to go to pull and save to tank a pair off another van. How do these mount and dismount?? Thanx

 

it is easy. They have small levers. Pull lever, rise arm and holding lever pull it out shaft.

10-20 seconds to steal both arms.....

 

If you find a van at your local salvage yard, you can play with the wiper arms and see what Pablo is talking about. When you lift up the arm far enough, you can pull out a tiny lever at the base of the arm that keeps the arm from returning to position, and relieves then tension of the spring against the post. Then you just pull the arm straight up.

I think the 1990 and earlier models are different from the later models. The earlier models have the spray nozzle in the wiper arm, and the later models have the spray jet in the cowl. Something to keep in mind when hunting for your replacement.

Not to belittle your situation, I'm surprised that the profanity filters missed the word "asswipes".

During one holiday where a number of parties were going on in my block, someone pulled the side view mirrors off of one of my friend's van. They caused pretty severe body damage in addition to stealing the mirrors. I don't think the alarm picked up that motion, so I don't know how to prevent things like this from happening.

 

thanks guys

 

Well, back in high school some "baby-wipe" stole my factory hubcaps off of my 1976 Nova Concours. Sweet little car with a 305 cube. Anyway, I was super P.O.'d. I thought, what to do, what to do. I didn't want the 2nd nice set of caps I had found to go the same way so I opted for a set of AMC Pacer hub caps. Remember them? They were very chromey with the cent coming out into a point just like 1957 Plymouth hubcaps.

I rigged the hub caps by super gluing strategically placed razor blades just under the rim flange lip. As "LUCK" would have it when I got out of school and walked back to my car the 1st cap (that did the damage) was laying on the ground all dented in with a puddle of blood next to it and all of the other 3 were kicked in. Was it worth it?---"H"--"E"--Double hockey stick "YEAH! I saw one of the wacky weed smoking pot heads at school the next day with bandages all over his hands. I kicked his @$$ that day after lunch. Oh the fond memories they take me back you know?

Since this isn't a common issue and probably isolated I wouldn't worry so much, but if it happens again-let mother ingenuity run its course. Hook up a mini guillotine for the finger tips, then when you see someone that looks like they did it you can call them 9 fingered Sally.

This has gotten me all revved up. Where is my molt-o-meal? Time to put on my Masked Avenger costume and go outside to rescue a kitten up a tree. Good luck Boz

ps-the capped teethed mechanism that the wiper sits on-well-the cap seems thin, but maybe a small drilled hole and a sheet metal screw would do the trick? This is such a random act-most thieves wouldn't have a tool in their hand because it would take to long-just a thought-cheers

 

in USSR in 80-s bad guys used to steal wipers, stereo and wheels (especially alloy ones with good tires) and we saw drivers with wipers in markets... looked so funny! Man carries wipers, car stereo and some other things he cant leave in a car....

 

thats funny, Because I knew a guy in highschool(a long time ago) someone broke into his mustang and stole his stereo and messed up the dash. he put a new stereo in and he put razor blades under the dash all around the stereo. He got home one day and there was blood all over the inside and even outside on the fenders. That guy got toasted

 

That's diabolical...razor blades around your valuables. The would-be thieves deserve everything that they get.

But I don't know how you would protect yourself against the FIRST occurrences of these random acts of theft and vandalism. They swipe your wipers, or wheel covers, or stereo today, but you don't know what they will hit tomorrow.

A few years ago, someone smashed the rear glass of my Aero to try to steal my mountain bike. I'm certain it was one of the kids in the neighborhood, as some of them were around earlier that afternoon while I was working on it. They saw that I kept it in the back of the van. I never figured out who it was, nor if they're still around, but I stopped keeping the bike in the back of the van.

Of course, now I know to keep a low profile; don't display anything that might tempt anyone into wanting it.

But who would suspect that your wipers would be a target? Someone who steals the wipers from an Aerostar has a very limited market to fence them off to. Most likely, he needs them for his own van, so you can probably guess that the culprit is an Aerostar owner.

 

mantrap in a car....

 

WANTED

Wiper thiesf

description:

Drives old aerostar
Has not enought money for wipers ore just doesnt want to purchaise
how he looks is unknown

Suspected all aero drivers

LOL!

 

So Pablo, where were you on 04-17-2009 at 09:54 PM?

 

my van without wipers, I can tell everyone its a race van with a big ol cam in it

 

LOL

My have stock wiper arms....

 

Here in California, it is apparently a pretty serious offense to drive without wipers. You can lose you license because of that.