Just back from a 3000km gentle cruise at 75/80 mph up to the UK and back. About 40 mpg except for the last stretch with a violent headwind which knocked it back to about 36 mpg. The car ran like a bird, the only problem being when the driver's side windscreen wiper decided to give up – and foul the other wiper too in torrential rain on the M11. Funny how they never give a problem ... when it's not raining! Anyway, a quick assessment on the hard shoulder with traffic thundering past in close proximity, decided that I could do nothing there, so I unscrewed the loose lock nut and threw the wiper arm disgustedly into the back of the car before proceeding off the motorway (fortunately I was only about a mile off the A120 Stansted where we were turning off anyway) leaning to the right (LHD car!) to peer through the passenger side. On arrival in Chelmsford I could see that the splines on both the spindle and the arm were buggered so had to be satisfied with tightening down the locknut as much as possible and hoping that friction would hold it. It did. Back to the south of France with no problem despite a fair amount of rain most of the way down. On a more positive note, I saw only one Rover of any sort during our 8 days in the UK, but – guess what? – it was a BRM on the car park of the M & S Foodhall in Ashby de la Zouch! Took photos and the owner, Paul Busby came out to have a chat. You probably know him as he has several BRM's in various states of (dis)repair, although he's not on the forum. A man who drives around with various clutch kits, camshafts etc, etc in the back of the car is obviously fairly keen! And that number plate! GB BRM!
Well done for a bit of slewthing! I do know of the car, but didnt know the current owner, however meeting at Ashby makes me wonder if he is a breaker of and trader in rovers with a coalville address...Regardless welcome here. Especially if we can help save more BRM's. Try a wrap of silver foil before clamping down the wiper arm, usually enough to effect a near enough permanent fix, until we can get another good part to you.
Could well be. He said he had 15 BRM's!!!! And, do you know, I stuck a bit of aluminium foil in my pocket before setting off from the Midlands to the South of France - just in case. Great minds ...
Ah, well, we have 'heard' many times of 'the man with a dozen BRM's'. I confess to having parked it in the folklore file, but now we possibly know where and the gents name, so, well done you! I suspect he must have a number we currently dont know, or at least dont have recent owners logged...
15 that's a man with a lot of space ,ditto on wiper arm as that happened to me last year ,tightening down seems to have done the trick for now though.
Back to the wiper mechanism. I'm going to have a look at mine this afternoon, but I reckon I could get away with a RHD mechanism, but changing the link arms. Found this on Ebay: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/22545779649...YzHUisA/KqDraTP+RF6PqbyA==|tkp:Bk9SR-z8g5P1Yg
On closer inspection I see that the splines are "satisfactory" on both drive spindles. I had thought of changing the spindles over, assuming the passenger side would be in better nick, but not the case. I then unpacked two brand new wiper arms bought some time ago in a Rimmers sale. No splines there either! So the original arms hadn't lost their splines - they were never there! I shall fit the new arms anyway, and just make sure they are VERY firmly tightened down.
