Using the rear wiper

[Peel]

Don't have a handbook so I don't know to switch it on! Wiper works when I push the stalk away for rear wash-wipe but I don't know how to have it on 'normally'.
I might sound like a girl but I'm not 

[mattneck(Beavis)]

it only works one way on the stalks, the way youre doing it?

or do you want it to be intermittent.. cause iirc yours was an early car asnt it.. around c? i got a number 20 relay from an early mk2 which means it only does one wipe when i want it to. not intermittent...

[Mew]

I didn't know the early cars weren't intermittent. Thought mine was knackered.........

[dubslug]

so i need to lok out for relay 20, i hate it when it has a mind of its own

[Dec]

hmm i dont know how to work mine then lol cant say ive used it yet other than sitting still and pushed the stalk

[mattneck(Beavis)]

I didn't know the early cars weren't intermittent. Thought mine was knackered.........

relay 72, later cars, intermittent, stopped by pushing the stalk a second time..

relay 20 early mk2 and mk1s, single push, thats it. seems to be the quicker you push it the less wipes it does.. if you hold it a moment longer itll do a few extra 

[mattneck(Beavis)]

so i need to lok out for relay 20, i hate it when it has a mind of its own

if you find one and fit it in place of 72 it will be a single wipe only.. not interm

EDIT: replace number 72 with 20, 19 is front wiper 

[Goops]

pushing once away from you, rear wiper starts and continually runs.......push again to stop!
Works for me anyway (post 90 gti) 

[Jay]

pushing once away from you, rear wiper starts and continually runs.......push again to stop!
Works for me anyway (post 90 gti) 

Peel has an 85 MK 2 which only does one wipe then stops, which is what they done back then, the later models sorted that out. Would be worth knowing what year they change it, wouldn't it? Maybe one of teh dub gurus can enlighten us? 

[Peel]

Right that all makes sense. Thanks gents.