Stephen, I guess we got off onto another track and didn't answer your question. If your bent on keeping the rear wiper, I guess what most of us did was just pick the wiper up from the glass as far as it would go (a couple of inches) with one hand, and wipe the glass underneath with whatever your using to clean the glass. Yes, CD should have made the wiper so it would go 90 degrees away from the glass and hold itself up away from the glass, but they didn't and we can only assume some engineer had a reason for doing so.
