Wiper blades for Falcon/Territory - hook type?

[Franco Cozzo]

Question for everyone here who owns a Falcon/Territory

Do they all use the hook type wiper blades? If they do does anyone have the dimensions of the hooks and can confirm?

Usually this type of wiper blade is 9mm long, 3mm wide (or 4mm wide)

What model is your Falcon and what wiper setup does it have?

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Question for everyone here who owns a Falcon/Territory

Do they all use the hook type wiper blades? If they do does anyone have the dimensions of the hooks and can confirm?

Usually this type of wiper blade is 9mm long, 3mm wide (or 4mm wide)

What model is your Falcon and what wiper setup does it have?

9mm long ??

[Franco Cozzo]

Mean the hook length on the arm, oops.

[Giant Cranium]

i have put bosch aero twins on all my falcons. they have the standard hook type.

[Franco Cozzo]

Whats the going rate for Bosch Aerotwins or their Trico equivalents these days in Falcon sizes?

[ozrunner]

Franco take your pic. I use the Braumac on my ute and they are great.

Genuine
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/25503496...sAAOSwJC9g3AW1

Aerotwin
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/13243308...UAAOSw7VhhX6h1

Braumach
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/32441535...gAAOSwz4hgXyAd

[BENT_8]

I put Trico on my FG a few weeks ago and to be honest im not happy with them, they perform well enough but just feel sloppy in the fitting compared to the factory items.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

I put Trico on my FG a few weeks ago and to be honest im not happy with them, they perform well enough but just feel sloppy in the fitting compared to the factory items.

Anything designed for use on both 9x3mm and 9x4mm hook will have that sloppiness with that little bit of side to side play you get.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by ozrunner

Franco take your pic. I use the Braumac on my ute and they are great.

Genuine
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/25503496...sAAOSwJC9g3AW1

Aerotwin
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/13243308...UAAOSw7VhhX6h1

Braumach
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/32441535...gAAOSwz4hgXyAd

Just realised those are pair prices, for a front set - thats pretty cheap $60 for genuine.

[Bossxr8]

I use the aerotwins on my FG. Very happy with them.

[Franco Cozzo]

$40-$45 for a front set seems to be the place to be, I'm assuming you're all buying online via eBay and receiving said wiper sets in the mail?

[ozrunner]

Yep and the Braumach are cheapest with no postage cost

[383hq]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

$40-$45 for a front set seems to be the place to be, I'm assuming you're all buying online via eBay and receiving said wiper sets in the mail?

I'll let you know - took ozrunners advise yesterday and bought the Braumachvic
Thanks for all the legwork- too easy
(Although buyers remorse had me thinking another $25 for OEM was the ticket right after I hit the buy it now button)

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by 383hq

I'll let you know - took ozrunners advise yesterday and bought the Braumachvic
Thanks for all the legwork- too easy
(Although buyers remorse had me thinking another $25 for OEM was the ticket right after I hit the buy it now button)

I'm introducing a new range to one of our categories, we do industrial platforms.

I guess there's going to be a lot more excavators and forklifts getting around with beam blade wiper blades on them

The light vehicle stuff is so cheap in comparison, the stuff on bigger excavators, trains, trams, ships et al you're paying $300 per blade..... and you can't refill them.

If said new industrial range just happens to also suit Falcons, Commodores et al..... I guess they need to be around $20 each

FG/FGX went away from the E series/AU and B series wiper sizes of 550mm long for both driver and passenger, to having 500mm passenger and 560mm driver length blades. Wonder why the change for something that ran for so long?

Braumach drives a hard bargin with free freight.

Its interesting comparing what things cost on light vehicles compared to other platforms, the more what you're repairing costs the prices exponentially increase for everything, curious to see what consumables cost on aircraft, anyone here fix planes?

[xb74_black]

I cant remember the length now, but when I fitted new wipers to the XF Pano, I used a longer one than the factory recommended on the drivers side. It made a much nicer sweep for me to see through (I'm tall).



Factory fittings arent always right for you.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

I'm introducing a new range to one of our categories, we do industrial platforms.

I guess there's going to be a lot more excavators and forklifts getting around with beam blade wiper blades on them

The light vehicle stuff is so cheap in comparison, the stuff on bigger excavators, trains, trams, ships et al you're paying $300 per blade..... and you can't refill them.

If said new industrial range just happens to also suit Falcons, Commodores et al..... I guess they need to be around $20 each


Its interesting comparing what things cost on light vehicles compared to other platforms, the more what you're repairing costs the prices exponentially increase for everything, curious to see what consumables cost on aircraft, anyone here fix planes?

My Kenworth and Louisville both use Trico, buying from Kenworth in packs of 20 is cheaper than buying car ones. I use the same Trico ones on the Mazda/Ford trucks. Just cut to length.

Truck stuff is reasonably priced compared to some car stuff.
example.. I can buy rear drives Spider (5 spoke Dayton) wheel drums new from Kenworth for around $120 ea.

I think they are a little wider than the XF panel vans. Tried to bend the pano's wiper arm hooks to fit but they just break off.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

My Kenworth and Louisville both use Trico, buying from Kenworth in packs of 20 is cheaper than buying car ones. I use the same Trico ones on the Mazda/Ford trucks. Just cut to length.

Truck stuff is reasonably priced compared to some car stuff.
example.. I can buy rear drives Spider (5 spoke Dayton) wheel drums new from Kenworth for around $120 ea.

I think they are a little wider than the XF panel vans. Tried to bend the pano's wiper arm hooks to fit but they just break off.

Commercial platforms usually use 8mm wide blades and the light vehicle stuff is 6mm blades.

Then there's the massive array of clip types, is it 9x2mm, 9x3mm, 9x4mm, 6mm clip, 12mm clip, 14mm clip, 16.5mm clip, 22.5mm clip, 25.6mm clip?!

K200 cab over uses 16.5mm clip blade from memory

Imagine a world where everyone just used the good ol' 9x3mm hook like the past 40 years of Falcons

With truck stuff, volumes are lower than light vehicle and the companies appear to work together with standards, at least in comparison to light vehicle where every man and his dog has their own standard for the same thing - CAN communication protocols for example, commercial, industrial and marine uses SAE J1939 and its across everything, from truck, bus, marine, stationary engine platforms et al.

On light vehicle Ford uses MSCAN and GM uses GMLAN - why?

Even if you look at trucks with disc brakes, they all use various 'off the shelf' calipers from OEM's in that sector, there's not that many variations of brake calipers on trucks in comparison to cars.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Commercial platforms usually use 8mm wide blades and the light vehicle stuff is 6mm blades.


K200 cab over uses 16.5mm clip blade from memory

Newer trucks with their bigger aero windscreen area is probably why.
K200 has a much deeper curved windscreen than the older K100 series flat glass.

off topic....Yep sharing components helps, for instances, I can use new Isuzu front shocks on my old Ford Traders.

[383hq]

The braumachvic fit and work well, His Russian brother, Abraumavich, probably developed them for use on his sub -@ozrunner thanks for the leg work