Re: Wiper problems - need advice

["Braden Sayer" <sayerbj@hotmail.com>]

You should start by just trying to tighten the nut that holds the arm onto 
the shaft, as it may just be loose.  If, the shaft is broken, you will 
realize it pretty quickly.  This happened to me lately, and I just went to 
the junk yard, and got the whole assembly to swap.  cost me $10 and only 
takes about 15mintues to swap out.  Not sure, but it looks like most A1 vws 
have the same assembly (except early scirocco, with only one arm!)


>From: Vaughn8v@aol.com
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Wiper problems - need advice
>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:52:25 EST
>
>Okay, so we just got the year's first snowfall here.  And my girlfriend 
>goes
>out and hops into the Scirocco (which has about half an inch or so of snow
>covering it) and what does she do?  No, she does not wipe the snow off the
>windshield before trying to actuate the wipers!!  So now, only the 
>passenger
>side wiper wipes and the driver's side acts like it wants to and sometimes 
>it
>will come up halfway before falling back down.  Do I need to replace that
>wiper arm shaft?  Has anyone done this?  Do I need to rip out the whole
>linkage frame assembly?  Is it wrecking yard material?
>
>Thanks
>Ben
>
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