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Old May 15, 2024 | 04:32 AM
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Have you taken off your wiper arms and broken the plastic cover ? Well they are NLA from GM....I see from google that there are repos....I found some on Ecklers and I ordered them....I thought Hawks 3 rd Gen had some but saw none on their website.....got them in today.....THEY ARE TOTALLY WRONG....they are WAY bigger that the stock ones and could not fit if they wanted too....the stock ones are different between left and right....these are both the same..... I ordered 2

I found Hawks does have repos...they look correct by the pics......they are on their ebay site instead of their website ( strange ) and upon looking ....these covers did NOT come from Ecklers....the return address is....HAWKS .....double strange
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^ Yep, I can tell just by looking at that piece that it's not correct at all.

I'm surprised that Hawks would be the ultimate supplier of these; they are usually quite good with their repros in terms of correctness. It looks like this was designed for an entirely different application. Have you tried calling them? Maybe it's a mistake.
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I am just returning them to Ecklers....with the reason being these are incorrect for the application....and should be removed from their website

if you search on ebay you can find these for f bods
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I see on hawks ebay site they list these as for 93-97 cars.....that would mean that GM changed wiper arms for 98-02 yrs.....anyone out there with a 93-97 car that can verify this ?
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Yes the 93-97 and 98-02 arms are very different.
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I see on hawks ebay site they list these as for 93-97 cars.....that would mean that GM changed wiper arms for 98-02 yrs.....anyone out there with a 93-97 car that can verify this ?
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I saw a 93-97 car just the other day.....yes they are different.....shame on Eklers for listing those covers for 98-02

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