{"id":7797,"date":"2015-06-30T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2015-06-30T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T22:36:21","slug":"wiper-blades-for-mgbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/?p=7797","title":{"rendered":"Wiper Blades For MGBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Cooke told me about his MGB wiper blade incident:<br \/>\n=========================================================<br \/>\nLen, as you will remember I lost a wiper blade travelling to your tech session.<br \/>\nIt just separated and flew off. So today I went hunting.<br \/>\nTried Moss online and got this result (US dollars, plus shipping plus, plus, plus)<br \/>\nClick on the image to see the search results<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wipers_at_Moss.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wipers_at_Moss-150x147.jpg\" alt=\"wipers_at_Moss\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7800\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLooking for something else I popped into the:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acautoparts.ca\/\">A & C Auto Parts Ltd\/Auto Plus<\/a><br \/>\n2525 Baseline Rd, Ottawa, ON K2C 0E3<br \/>\nCoincidentally the Bosch rep followed me in and I jokingly told him I was interested in some Bosch wiper blades.<br \/>\nHe looked on his tablet for 'MGB 1973' and came up with the code (10 inch 40710, or 3 397 004 439-34s).<br \/>\nMeanwhile the A&C owner was already in the store room pulling them from stock (no delivery charge!).<br \/>\nI paid CAN$26.61 for 3, all-in.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve fitted the replacement and can say it works but is a little chunkier than the OEM all-metal ones.<br \/>\nRats, it\u2019ll probably add a millisecond to my 0-something speed \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nCheers, Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Cooke told me about his MGB wiper blade incident:<br \/>\n=========================================================<br \/>\nLen, as you will remember I lost a wiper blade travelling to your tech session.<br \/>\nIt just separated and flew off. So today I went hunting.<br \/>\nTried Moss online and got this result (US dollars, plus shipping plus, plus, plus)<br \/>\nClick on the image to see the search results<\/p>\n<p>Looking [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mg-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7802,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.omgc.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}