Table of contents: Removal ↓ Installation ↓
Windscreen wiper blades should be replaced if the glass cleaning quality is poor. Complete windscreen wipers are available for sale (rubber with holder), as well as individual brushes. If only the rubber is replaced, be careful not to bend the holder.
Warning: If the brushes move jerkily, it is usually not enough to replace the brushes or rubber. Just in case, it is necessary to check and, if necessary, adjust the angle of the levers, while referring to the subsection Removal and installation, checking and adjustment of the final position of the windshield wiper arms.
Removal
1. Fold the lever up and place the brush at a right angle to the lever.
2. Press the spring clip (A) (direction of the arrow) and slide the brush down (B) from the hook on the lever. Remove the brush from the hook on the lever.
3. Squeeze both steel tires with pliers on the closed side of the rubber and remove them from the upper bracket. Then remove the rubber together with the tires from the remaining brackets of the brush.
Installation
1. Insert new rubber without tires loosely into the lower brackets of the brush.
2. Insert both tires into the first groove of the rubber so that the grooves of the tires point towards the rubber and fix them in the rubber tabs of the grooves.
3. Press both steel bars and rubber together with pliers and insert into the upper bracket so that the bracket tabs on both sides are fixed in the clamping grooves (arrow on the illustration) rubber.
4. Insert the rubber through the lever and secure the spring clips into the hooks of the lever. The fairing on the brush, if any, should be facing downwards.
5. Lower the lever back. Make sure that the rubber is in contact with the glass everywhere, otherwise carefully bend the holder.
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