I've always been a stickler for a clean windshield. One that has no marks, especially in my field of vision. The rain has finally started falling and I've suddenly found the single, most irritating design flaw that the Jeep makers have ever made. They made the wipers wipe in such a way that it leaves a line right in front of my field of vision when driving. Whoever was the designer of that part of the vehicle should be fired immediately. Didn't any of the test vehicle drivers report this?
The line you see in the picture isn't a crack in the windshield, but that stupid line the right hand wiper leaves behind and the left one can't remove.
So now, along with the design quirk that the roof rails don't have a place to add tie downs and forces us to buy cross rails, the wipers stop at the most irritating place. ARGH!
A clay bar, 0000 steel wool + glass cleaner or glass scrub should take that right off. Also, it helps to occasionally clean your wipers with the 303 wiper restorer or some type of silicon.
It may also help to invest in a better set of wipers. Silblades come to mind...
Thanks for the suggestions. I just find it really irritating that the stopping point of the wipers is right there. I can understand if the stopping line was in the middle of the windshield, maybe under the rear view mirror, but for it to stop in my driving field of view?!!! Makes me wish that Jeep just made a single wiper like the MB 190E had.
I agree that better blades and some rainx washer fluid helps. When I detail my cars, I usually run a polishing wheel over the front. You'd be shocked at the amount of crap on there.
The manual said not to use Rain-X or any product like that because it'll interfere with the auto-sensing wipers not working properly. Also, I don't like using the product.
I'll probably end up just cleaning my wiper blade and hope that deals with the problem. I'm much more calm now than when I originally wrote the message.
Yeah, sounds like you had some kind of contaminant on the windshield and needs a good cleaning and replacement blades; mine wipes pretty clean, no line.
nathantw, totally agree! I have heard Jeep monitors these forums and I can't believe the designers/testers missed this!!!! Hopefully someone from Jeep will see this and do something about it for us (not likely but I can wish). I found several of these what I consider poor designs in an otherwise great Jeep. I volunteer to become a tester for Jeep so we can get rid of these distractions.....
OT but are those parking spaces opposite you in the photo for cars? Motorcycles I could understand but they don't look wide enough for cars. Unless it's the camera lens.
Yup. They're for cars. They normally fit two cars in each stall. The Jeep has about a couple inches to spare between both lines. It's a really, really tight parking lot, but since I get there before all the cars arrive I usually don't have a problem getting into the spots.