Windscreen Wiper Arms - Respray

[zippypooz]

I was thinking of doing them colour coded, mine's gun metal so was thinking of spraying the same...although having seen everyone's attempts i may go the matte black route!...to be safe!!

[Payco]

Gun metal will look awful. You would be better wrapping them !!!

[Science_GT]

On 26/10/2017 at 16:24, zippypooz said:

I was thinking of doing them colour coded, mine's gun metal so was thinking of spraying the same...although having seen everyone's attempts i may go the matte black route!...to be safe!!

Dont do it! Black all the way! 

 

I used hammerite in the end on Mine. 

[alfa_owner]

Does anyone fancy doing mine for me?

[coldel]

I did mine on the Celica it's pretty straight forward with rattle cans. Unbolt the wiper arm, remove the wiper, sand down, prime and spray 

[alfa_owner]

Just not sure I've got the patience to sort them... Really struggling with progression at the moment

[fellsteruk]

It’s possible, it’s the easiest job to do yourself and doesn’t take too long but obviously the more time you take the better the end result. 

[cearnshaw85]

i did the same on my old 350z they never went bad again. 

[alfa_owner]

Does anyone do this as a service?? I'd happily pay for a good job 

[ShortPaul]

Just take them to a body shop mate probably won't charge much

[Flashback]

or a wheel refurbisher.. although by the time you pay for that you might be better just buying new arms off one of the traders.

 

It really is an easy job.

1. Sand off with wet and dry (whilst wet), clean arms and let dry.
2. Prime wait 20 mins prime again
3. Let dry and go watch the tv
4. Spray with matt black, wait 20 mins spray again
5. Let dry and go watch the tv
6. Turn over and spray the back 
7. Let dry and go watch the tv
8. Refit

Simples

[zippypooz]

And i've still not done it! But now the weather is getting better i think its time!

[Rich350z]

Hey Fellsteruk, thanks for the guide.....it enabled a completely inept person like me to successfully respray his wiper arms :-)

 

 

to this:

 

 

Not perfect as there are slight ridges where I obviously didn't sand the pain back enough in all areas, but other than that I am really happy with it.....you can't notice the imperfections unless you are stood less than a metre away