Squeaky wipers- pivot bush worn.

My windscreen wipers have a very persistent squeak which I'm certain is caused by a massive amount of play in the arm pivot bushes. Are replacement bushes available or is it a case of replacing the whole linkage?

Busta when I first got my Jimny (last Feb/March) I had terrible wiper blade squealing and juddering - this is probably not the same issue as you have as you mention you think yours is a worn bush - but the whole wiper blade issues that I did have vanished the moment I fitted those Bosch flat-blade jobs.
Theyre pricey but once I started using them on other cars I've owned they were so effective I now put them on everything; they do seem to make a big difference and certainly cured the issues I had with the Jimny. If you are refreshing your wiper system they could be worth considering if you haven't already got them.

(I've tried the Valeo ones - they're good too and a bit cheaper, but dont last as long)

Mine have been squeaky since i bought it. I just lube all i can with a spray on lithium grease and it shuts up for a while.
Works OK and not too much play and slack yet to change it, but sometime...

Bought the wole mechanism on my 2006 VW T5 just to change the motor.
Suprised that it wasn't too expensive brand new, hoping that is the case for the Suzuki one as well.

Max Headroom wrote: Busta when I first got my Jimny (last Feb/March) I had terrible wiper blade squealing and juddering - this is probably not the same issue as you have as you mention you think yours is a worn bush - but the whole wiper blade issues that I did have vanished the moment I fitted those Bosch flat-blade jobs.
Theyre pricey but once I started using them on other cars I've owned they were so effective I now put them on everything; they do seem to make a big difference and certainly cured the issues I had with the Jimny. If you are refreshing your wiper system they could be worth considering if you haven't already got them.

(I've tried the Valeo ones - they're good too and a bit cheaper, but dont last as long)

The Bosch ones do not work on cars with more curved windshields and/or in colder weather. Have been working good until now on my Jimny but the cold weather makes them too stiff so they do not touch the surface except here and there. not a streak in them when it is more than +1C but I will have to change them for the stiffness and not because they are worn so to say...
And on my VW i only use the original ones. Bosch is awful on that car but works ok on the Jimny.

yakuza wrote:

Max Headroom wrote: Busta when I first got my Jimny (last Feb/March) I had terrible wiper blade squealing and juddering - this is probably not the same issue as you have as you mention you think yours is a worn bush - but the whole wiper blade issues that I did have vanished the moment I fitted those Bosch flat-blade jobs.
Theyre pricey but once I started using them on other cars I've owned they were so effective I now put them on everything; they do seem to make a big difference and certainly cured the issues I had with the Jimny. If you are refreshing your wiper system they could be worth considering if you haven't already got them.

(I've tried the Valeo ones - they're good too and a bit cheaper, but dont last as long)

The Bosch ones do not work on cars with more curved windshields and/or in colder weather. Have been working good until now on my Jimny but the cold weather makes them too stiff so they do not touch the surface except here and there. not a streak in them when it is more than +1C but I will have to change them for the stiffness and not because they are worn so to say...
And on my VW i only use the original ones. Bosch is awful on that car but works ok on the Jimny.

Is that the aerotwin ones? I have the Biltema clearview on mine, and they freeze up _very_ quick when it snows. Was planning to buy the aerotwin`s, but youre comment made me rethink that now..

OlaGB wrote:

yakuza wrote:

Max Headroom wrote: Busta when I first got my Jimny (last Feb/March) I had terrible wiper blade squealing and juddering - this is probably not the same issue as you have as you mention you think yours is a worn bush - but the whole wiper blade issues that I did have vanished the moment I fitted those Bosch flat-blade jobs.
Theyre pricey but once I started using them on other cars I've owned they were so effective I now put them on everything; they do seem to make a big difference and certainly cured the issues I had with the Jimny. If you are refreshing your wiper system they could be worth considering if you haven't already got them.

(I've tried the Valeo ones - they're good too and a bit cheaper, but dont last as long)

The Bosch ones do not work on cars with more curved windshields and/or in colder weather. Have been working good until now on my Jimny but the cold weather makes them too stiff so they do not touch the surface except here and there. not a streak in them when it is more than +1C but I will have to change them for the stiffness and not because they are worn so to say...
And on my VW i only use the original ones. Bosch is awful on that car but works ok on the Jimny.

Is that the aerotwin ones? I have the Biltema clearview on mine, and they freeze up _very_ quick when it snows. Was planning to buy the aerotwin`s, but youre comment made me rethink that now..

Have no idea what they were sorry..
They did well when newer I think, might be two years old, but I thought they were just a bit over one year.
Haven't found a marking on them that changes color like on some others so not sure if they are too old..
Helps to put heat on the floor instead of the windshield some say. ice doesn't build up as fast then.

Really???

I simply just haven't had any issues with the Bosch flat wipers whatsoever - they've always been a vast improvement no matter what temperatures, winter or summer.
The cars I fitted them to with huge success were: Daewoo Matiz, Peugeot 206, Peugeot 208 Convertible, Vauxhall Meriva A, SAAB 93 Convertible, Vauxhall Agila, and more recently the Jimny. The guys I used to lift-share with also had them (Rover 75, Vauxhall Astra & Ford Mondeo) and none of these presented problems or temperature related issues.

Maybe I've just been lucky

Lambert wrote: Or we don't live in the frozen hell of Hoth!

Probably spot on

I have heard onl positive on the aerotwins though , i will try a set anyway.

just about a couple below zero here now, so not that cold.
I have been removing all visible ice from them but they still do not clear the windsheild.
The melting water on the windshield just stays there..

Could be this is the cheapo version of bosch or something?
it is a single blade rubber thing with a spring inside the rubber, looks like the aerotwin I googled.

I will never forget one year being in Norway after finishing the huge NATO excercise "Hardfall" which I'd been doing for 3 solid months (Jan Feb Mar) we were stuck in a "holding area" for days on end, and all the RAF lads were getting pretty angry at the fact that our RAF planes seemed to be flying the British army out of Trondheim, yet here we were living sleeping and eating on the floor of a huge hangar and unable to get out on OUR OWN planes!
The hangar was brightly lit even at night, with different nationalities of troops continually herding in, setting up for a short while before getting called forward and going off again - so it was never quiet and always busy. We were there for days on end it seemed.

What struck me was the name of the place...

Hell