E30 Zone

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 !

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.

You sure its not on this diagram??

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do ... fg=45&hl=9

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?

Sure it's not just a part that comes free with whatever brand of wiper blade you're using?

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

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?

willnz wrote:If Brianmooooooooore says it is not part of a MoT, you can take it as read...

Failing that, IIRC, hennabm is a MOT tester!

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).