{"id":1669,"date":"2016-10-06T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:00:29","slug":"repainting-wiper-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/06\/repainting-wiper-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Repainting Wiper Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a while the paint on wiper arms can turn into bare shiny metal, which can cause sun glare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1673\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_10_06_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_06_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mine have been that way for a while, so I finally got around to fixing that. Normally you would remove the wiper arms to do this, but mine are seized onto the studs, so I had to do this all on the car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1674\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_10_06_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_06_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First step is to sand them down with 150 grit sandpaper to remove any loosening paint, rust, and to prep the surface to accept paint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1676\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_10_06_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_06_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I had the wiper arms off the car I&#8217;d hang them on something to paint them, but because I couldn&#8217;t I just covered the whole front end of my car with newspaper to protect from overspray.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1677\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_10_06_04.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_06_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks a little sloppy if you get up close, but from regular viewing distance the paint job looks fine. I also got some new wiper blades to compete the makeover. You don&#8217;t appreciate black wiper arms until you don&#8217;t have them anymore.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a while the paint on wiper arms can turn into bare shiny metal, which can cause sun glare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,14],"tags":[31,52,69],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-how-to","category-my-car","tag-diy","tag-paint","tag-wipers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}