Rubber Blade

Mileage: 24,612KM
Do It Yourself: Yes
Difficulty: Easy

My rear wiper rubber blade gave away early this week. It was tore at both edges. Instead of buying a replacement unit, I decided to do DIY using wiper blade refill.

Sorry for the out of focus picture

Another view of the ill fated rubber blade

I went to Eneos 1U and got myself the blade refill. The length of the rear wiper is 14 inch and make sure the width is not less than 6.5mm, best if you can get 7.5mm.

The refill, claimed to be made from silicone rubber

To remove the old rubber, just pull at either one of the edge and slide out the whole rubber lining.

Slide out the rubber....

The parts, from the top.... the wiper frame, the original metal brackets, the original rubber and the refill unit

I'm using back the original metal bracket. After swapped the bracket, I just cut out the extra 2 inch from the refill unit. If using the original metal bracket, then it will be easy to estimate the length. Did I mentioned the refill is 16inch in length?

Chop off the extra

Done... waiting to fix back at the car

Viola... it's done. Took me about less than 30 minutes to assemble it and cost me RM12.80.

Wet Light

Mileage: 23,200KM

Months ago, I've posted a blog about "Wet Tail". Today, I have the same issue again with the other one. Last time it was the right side.

Anyway, the DIY steps are same as previous entry.

You can see the water line inside the light, look at the bottom right corner

Another view of the light

Note:

• I use the same steps as previous DIY. Using silicone adhesive sealant.
• After a close inspection, I could not figure out how the water got into the light. Seems this case a bit different. The water might got into the light through the waterproof padding, coz it was damp.

Bumper Scars...

Mileage: 22,815KM

Last weekend, parked my car after done weekly grocerry shopping. Then I noticed something which is not look so good to my eyes. How did the scars end up there, at my front bumper?

The whole night I've been thinking about it, I did not bump to anyone nor hit any pillars (not again!) or curbs. I did not even feel any knocking vibrations through out the whole journey...

The scars (pic without flash)

The scars (pic with flash)

The scratch is quite deep. The impact chipped off the paint and also the bumper fibre. Luckly it did not crack.

Suddenly, wifey broke the silence. She said a rider bumped the car when she was on the way home from office. The impact even ripped off the black plastic moulding but she clipped it back to the bumper after the accident.

And not so funny part is.... the accident happened two days earlier. Tisk.. tisk... tisk...

I think I won't repair the scratch as it is not so obvious. The bumper material is made from a white colored fibre and my pug is quartz blue. The scratch is not so apparent. I will leave it until I'm ready to paint the whole bumper.