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<x-charset iso-8859-1>I looked at my very worn/breaking apart scrapers on my baby, then looked at the good ones on my Jetta. Ya know what causes the old scrapers to break down? Arms. If you roll down the window all the way and rest your arm in the window sill area you will be scrunching the scrapers and, during the warmer times, depositing caustic human skin oils and salty sweat on them. Through better engineering, I assume, my Jetta scrapers are more in the door and away from my arm. What I have been doing for a long time is NOT rolling my window down all the way in my baby. I roll it down so the top edge of the glass is even with the (remaining) scraper. This way I can rest my boney arm on the sill without tormenting the scrapers. Every little bit to make 'em last, ya know :) BTW, I have a decades worth of VW magazines (and probably more). If some one can tell me the magazine title, year and month then I can scan the article and email it -- I'd post it to my web page but that could be violating copyright laws and I don't want to get on the bad side of any of the mags :) Toby Erkson air_cooled_nut@pobox.com '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed '95 VW Jetta III GL 2.0L, P-Chip, Jamex suspension, 2.25" MagnaFlow exhaust, etc. Portland, Oregon, http://www.icbm.org/ >-----Original Message----- >So I need to bite the bullet here and replace the outer window >scraper... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe </x-charset>