Honda Prelude UK

vtecmec · Lude-aholic Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 447 Location: Leeds

Hey,

I bought one of these a while back direct from storm.

I thought I'd write my first review. Very Happy

Delivery was fast, well packaged and with good (pictures and text) instructions.

Fitting time was about 1 hr.

Good points

Looks great.
Easy install.
Well crafted.

Bad points

I had to trim a piece of the cover over the wiper mechanism so to prevent fouling of the wiper arm (as instructed!). And unless you do some rework you'll be left with a dirty hole in it.

A bung was supplied to cap the unused wiper, unfortunately it was too small and therefore useless. I had to source another one.

It was suplied with a sprung moulded wiper blade, which looked neat, though this was too small and did not touch the screen in the middle. I had to replace this too.

Despite the above points, I would still recommend one of these.

The mechanics of the kit are of an excellent quality and I have not had any problems at all.

Just bear in mind that you may have to replace a few cheap items.

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nitin_s1 · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject:

Any pics

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vtecmec · Lude-aholic Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 447 Location: Leeds

Yeah, forgot about that. Embarassed

The cars in a bit of a state at the mo so it may be a while till 'i can take some pics.

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Bri · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

Whats the speed like for clearing heavy rain?

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gillywig2 · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject:

You dont get as bigger wipe area on the drivers side with singles.

MaDMaXX · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject:

What's the point in a single? it just gives you less sweep area and a single point of failure :/

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Ammo · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject:

I've got a single wiper conversion on my BMW, mainly cos the drivers wiper fell off on the M4 Laughing

vtecmec · Lude-aholic Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 447 Location: Leeds

bri wrote:

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Whats the speed like for clearing heavy rain?

It's fine, it still takes the same amount of time to do a full sweep of the wondow, so no problems.

gillywig2 wrote:

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You dont get as bigger wipe area on the drivers side with singles.

It is a little less thats true, but i've not really noticed as its the upper right. Also its better elsewhere, like the bottom centre of the window.

MaDMaXX wrote:

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What's the point in a single? it just gives you less sweep area and a single point of failure :/

Well, I wanted some replacement wiper arms and this was the easiest answer. Also it looks a bit cleaner. OEM has 2 points of failure.

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MaDMaXX · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

Fair point for getting it, but 2 points of failure is better than one, that's called redundancy Wink

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