Mum in £270 dispute with car wash over windscreen wiper 'damage'

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A motorist left hundreds of pounds out of pocket is locked in a windscreen wiper dispute with a car wash. Mum of two Libbi Kirkby says soon after she left Star Wash car wash in Leek one of her wipers began making an 'excruciating noise’, the Stoke Sentinel reports.

Libbi says both the windscreen and the wiper fittings of her VW Golf Plus needed to be replaced at a cost of £270 - plus VAT and labour.

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Libbi says the windscreen needed to be replaced after the scraping of the metal arm of the wiper gouged a hole in the glass.