Does your passenger side wiper "stick up" when at rest?
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Does your passenger side wiper "stick up" when at rest?
UPDATE 10/10/2014 - Got the car back from the dealer yesterday and all is fixed (had a few issues taken care of). The wiper was a good 1-2" too high. The technician compared it to other GLKs on the lot and the wind noise is gone.
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I think I may have found the source of the wind noise at 70+. It's at the RF of the cabin and almost sounds like air gusting against the side mirror. I always thought it was odd that the wiper arm on the car stuck up so high. Looking at pictures of other GLKs online and driving by the dealer they all appear to be lower. Specifically they're all below the black tinted area along the base of the glass where as her's is on it.
Hers... up over tinted area. Very visible over the hood line.
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Took two better pictures today.
Wiper below tinted area
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I think I may have found the source of the wind noise at 70+. It's at the RF of the cabin and almost sounds like air gusting against the side mirror. I always thought it was odd that the wiper arm on the car stuck up so high. Looking at pictures of other GLKs online and driving by the dealer they all appear to be lower. Specifically they're all below the black tinted area along the base of the glass where as her's is on it.
Hers... up over tinted area. Very visible over the hood line.
\Took two better pictures today.
Wiper below tinted area
Last edited by BCBowers; Oct 10, 2014 at 10:52 AM.
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Mine are both below the edge of the hood unless I pull them out to wash the windshield.
I would think that would definitely cause noise at speed...
I would think that would definitely cause noise at speed...
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Mine sticks up not as much as in the pic, but I can see it from inside the cabin.
Got the blades replaced with OEM but I think different from my last set is the new set has the Mercedes emblem on the end, so it sticks up with yet another star to make some of us happy I guess?
Got the blades replaced with OEM but I think different from my last set is the new set has the Mercedes emblem on the end, so it sticks up with yet another star to make some of us happy I guess?
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Car is under warranty so the dealer did it. On most cars you remove a plastic cap at the base of the wiper arm revealing a nut holding the arm down. Remove the nut, pull the arm off the stud, and re-install it oriented a little differently... one or two teeth on the spline.
