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Originally Posted by Arminius
Has anyone here experimented with putting their wipers in the vertical position when they are off? I know people do that, but I haven't seen any evidience that it works. It seems common sense to me, but I want emperical evidence.
Perhaps Landon can try it out on his cardboard box?  |
Arminius,it may not make a difference.Since modern cars pull ventilation air from the cowl area,immediately adjacent to the windshield base,this area is usually denoted as an area of stagnated flow reaching quite a bit forward over the hood.As in attached vortices,the free field flows over this region as if it were solid.Typically,the wipers are embedded within this region and the airstream doesn't actually impinge on them.Removing them altogether on my CRX demonstrated no measureable difference in performance at top speed,and I personally consider them a dead-end with respect to mileage improvement.