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Offline s4lek

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Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« on: June 17, 2010, 02:37:48 pm »
Hi does anyone know where I can get some good quality wipers from without
paying dealer prices.  Has anyone bought the ones from eBay which are selling for £9.99
and if so are they anygood. 

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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2010, 02:59:47 pm »
I don't remember the dealer ones being particularly expensive. Think I paid around £25-30 for the pair, compared to £22 or so from halfrauds.

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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2010, 03:04:10 pm »
Hi does anyone know where I can get some good quality wipers from without
paying dealer prices.  Has anyone bought the ones from eBay which are selling for £9.99
and if so are they anygood. 
I bought the ones from ebay for £9.99. Not surprisingly, they're crap! I then bought Halfords own brand ones and they were also crap.

Stick with the dealer stuff, it'll be cheaper in the long run  :happy2:

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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2010, 03:19:31 pm »
Get them from the dealer especially as the design changed during the MY05 run i.e. you may buy the wrong ones from a non-VW source.
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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2010, 03:19:53 pm »
I agree with the above, ebay can be a false economy sometimes!

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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2010, 03:33:14 pm »
Get them from the dealer especially as the design changed during the MY05 run i.e. you may buy the wrong ones from a non-VW source.

The design changed in 2006, the year not the MY

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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2010, 05:16:29 pm »

The wipers were £12.44 (ish) each when I bought them from VW a couple of months ago.
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Re: Windscreen wipers for 2005 golf
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2010, 05:36:23 pm »
Thanks for all the feedback. , will definatly order some from Vw
sometimes non oem parts seem to be better but a in this case  I'll take yout advices.