Does anyone else have the same gripe as me about the park position of the rear wiper? Because it parks to the nearside, invariably streaks of water run down from the highest position the wiper blade reached on the offside of the rear windscreen. That side, however, is the part of the screen I am invariably looking to, through the rear mirror, and I find that looking through streaks of water making their way down the window annoying at the least and less-than helpful when assessing traffic behind me in rainy conditions. Dealerships say that no one has ever complained about this before and that there is no way to make the blade park on the other side, presumably because of the camera position.

Any thoughts? Current car: 2012 FFRR Autobiography TDV8.
Previous: 2010 FFRR Vogue SE TDV8
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I've just removed rear wiper!

Nothing which can be done (easily at least) and yes, one of those annoying things which Land Rover seem to manage to design in to every one of their products.

Even worse IMO is the washer fluid being pumped through the spindle, just waiting to fill the motor with screenwash. Uttlery useless design.

No complaints here, I have a Left Hand drive

It is annoying though to have streaks down the rear window on a car like this. At least they could program two or three delayed wipes to clean it. MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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I just leave the intermittent on for a few minutes after and it seems to do the job for me  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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What are you using your rear window for anyway? It's a Range Rover, surely you can just do what you want and anyone that gets in your way is a pleb?  
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Dont hurt those plebs,

I need them to wash my car, do my dishes.......  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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Also,the park position tucked away is good for the aesthetics but lousy for practicality. It lifts dirt up off the back screen and tucks it away under the rear spoiler. It seems more difficult on the later cars (with a starter button) to park it vertically while washing.

It is one of the stupidest design decisions on the car. Having the pivot at the top means sweeping the water to the top of the screen which, given the universally understood action of gravity, will inevitably do all it can to track down the glass again from there. The "leave the wiper on longer" trick always fails as predicted by an extrapolation of Newton's well known 4th law (No matter how hard you shake it there's always one drop left to run down your leg). Of course if you leave the wiper on long enough to start scribing arcs into the glass then it may avoid the runs, but there will be rather too many unfortunate side effects - not least the smeared detritus resulting from the reknowned aerodynamics which hoovers up every spec of roadmuck onto the back window once progressing at speeds in excess of 30mph. While I accept it would be a bit sheep like for RR designers to move the wiper pivot to the base of the glass like everyone else, it would then at least have a chance of working at its primary function of keeping the rear window clear. Mike - MPx

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There's a rear wiper?????????????????????????????  Land Rover Addict
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By really there should be no wiper and being an Ffrr it should be a super laser beam that blasts the water off across the screen in fine with leaving it on a little longer or just doing the odd wipe afterwards

I don't get any drips on my legs strangely enough... FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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kingpleb wrote:

I don't get any drips on my legs strangely enough...

I've heard that sitting down prevents that happening

The new model handles with this problem. Maybe buying the new one.

I'm always amused by 1st world "problems"

I had this week a replacment car from the dealer, a L405 3.0 aubiography.

And the rear wiper problem as described above is solved.

But on the other hand the rear window takes much more spray than before  2017 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 silicon silver
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