[davelobi]

I have not seen this mentioned but then again there are a bazillion posts on here..

I just put a new wiper motor in a saturn. The little arm that goes around in a circle geared off the motor had to be set at 9-oclock for proper parking of the wiper arms. Well, you guessed it, I had the entire apparatus 180 degrees off when I set the lil arm at 9-oclock. Upon putting it in the car it was now at 3-oclock. Works fine but parks in full up rather than down.

Tonight I happened to remove my passenger side wiper arm and blade. My brother was riding with me and noticed it missing. I'd love to take the credit but he said, "Why dont you set the other one to park in the straight up position?"

Think about how much less drag sticking straight up on the windshield it would be than the frontal area and drag of the sideways arm and wiper blade. The blade would be fully functional in this manner. It would simply swipe down then up rather than up then down.

I mean some would scoff at shuch a miniscule savings but others are deleting their antenna. It adds up right? Anyone doing this?