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Best place to order a new rear wiper arm? Help!

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the whole thing??? or just the blade???

Either way you have to get it from the dealer. Nobody makes a replacement blade that size. And if you need the whole arm assembly you def. have to go to a dealer or a parts yard. But I think the blade is likke $2 at the Toyota dealer vs. $4 at Pontiac, just go and pick one up.

My son's Vibe was parked on a side road where he goes to college and someone broke the wiper arm off. He doesn't get to park in the same place, so when he noticed that it was gone, he walked to where he remembered parking a few times and didn't find it.It has been snowing out there quite a bit, so someone could have slipped and taken the wiper arm out on the way down. It was definitely broken off. I'll try a used parts place first. I didn't know the blade was a Toyota / Pontiac only part. Good to know. Thanks!

Thanks, Whelan... your link set me up with a local parts place. Sent email request. Will see if this works.

Quote, originally posted by Whelan »But I think the blade is likke $2 at the Toyota dealer vs. $4 at Pontiac, just go and pick one up.I wish! I just called two Toyota dealers and a Pontiac dealer on the north side of Chicago... the first Toyota dealer wanted $12, the second wanted $14, and the Pontiac dealer (owned by the same company as the one of the Toyota dealers) wanted $25!!!What part of the country are people getting them for $2?!

Mine was $38 from the pontiac dealer and the Toyo guys didn't have them in stock...I tried getting a longer arm and cutting it down...I don't recommend that either

Turns out the $25 quote from the Pontiac dealer was for the whole blade assembly, not just the rubber insert. They want $14 for the insert, and they don't have it in stock because they usually just change the whole blade. Quicker and more expensive; that's a win-win for the dealer.The Toyota dealers were probably quoting just the insert. They have them in stock, at least. I'll have to pony up I guess, since aftermarket inserts don't exist. I don't want to deal with cutting down a bigger one.

Ha, well I went to the Toyota dealer ready to pay $10-12 for the wiper blade insert (they quoted me a different price through email than over the phone)... it ended up being $2.43 + tax. Excellent. But I don't understand why they would give me bad information in advance that would potentially stop me from coming. Idiots.