Can anyone help with a part number?

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mad4amanda
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:47 am

for the black plastic sleeve that slides over the rear wiperarm and connects to the blade on a 1990 touring ? second time mine has broken got one from a breaker last time with blade . this time bought new bosch blade but not supplied, its about 100mm long and I cant find it on realoem anywhere?

Please help as mot due !
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:41 am

I have a dozen E30 tourings, but I still can't work out which part you mean.
Rear wiper isn't covered by a MOT test.
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Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:30 pm

right that diagram is what I saw ! But the car does not have a hook type rear wiper arm the wiper arm is metal and has a flat push on fitting that clips to the blade but whereas normal flats are 2" or so long this is or was about 4" and slides over the unfinished bare metal part of the arm . Hence my descibing it as a sleeve , any ideas? It looks original and andyp gave me one off his 316I T but that got vandalised too!

thought MOT said if fitted has to be working now?
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Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:35 pm

Sure it's not just a part that comes free with whatever brand of wiper blade you're using?
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Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:54 pm

Take a look in the manual and you will see that rear wipers are not covered by the test.

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/internet/htdo ... 000001.htm
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Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:51 am

Grrrmachine wrote:Sure it's not just a part that comes free with whatever brand of wiper blade you're using?
nope got a new bosch one and it has no fitting from a sealed box!

thanks for the MOT info very useful but nowhere does it differentiate between front and rear just says wipers .
can a MOT tester confirm?
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Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:50 am

willnz wrote:If Brianmooooooooore says it is not part of a MoT, you can take it as read... winkeye
Failing that, IIRC, hennabm is a MOT tester!
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Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:46 pm

I think that number 5 on the Real OEM should end up to be the right part number. Its just that the drawing is inaccurate.

I got one for my old touring from the dealer (they werent silly money).
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