Table of contents: Removal ↓ Installation ↓
Keeping your windscreen wipers in perfect condition is essential to ensure good visibility.
To avoid deformation of the brushes, it is necessary to regularly clean the windshield wiper blades with a glass cleaner. If the brushes are heavily soiled, for example, with insect residue, the brushes should be cleaned with a sponge or a clean cloth.
For safety reasons, you should replace your windshield wiper blades once or twice a year.
In freezing temperatures, before turning on the windshield wipers for the first time during a trip, you should check whether the brushes are frozen to the glass!
If the wipers do not clean the windshield well enough, the following reasons may be the cause.
When your car goes through an automatic car wash, wax particles get on your windshield. These particles can be removed by adding a wax-dissolving glass cleaner to your windshield washer fluid.
Filling the reservoir with a glass cleaner with wax-dissolving properties can significantly improve the performance of the wipers. Grease-dissolving cleaners are not able to completely clean the glass.
Damage to the brushes can also be the cause of poor glass cleaning; the brushes should be replaced.
Work on checking and adjusting the installation angle of the windshield wiper arms is carried out by Volkswagen service companies.
Removal
Lift the wiper arm away from the windshield. Rotate the wiper blade at a 90° angle to the wiper arm.
Press the wiper blade release (arrow A, Fig. 1.50), then move the brush along the lever (arrow B) and, moving it in the opposite direction, remove it from the wiper arm.
Press the steel reinforcements of the wiper blade rubber band together on both sides and remove the wiper blade rubber band from the end of the blade (see fig. 1.51).
Installation
Insert a new rubber strip without steel reinforcements into the lower wiper blade clips.
Insert the steel reinforcements into the first groove of the rubber band.
Using pliers, squeeze the steel reinforcements together with the rubber band and insert them into the upper clamp of the windshield wiper blade. The clamp's tabs should engage the latches on the rubber band (see fig. 1.52).
Install the wiper blades on the arms in the reverse order of removal. The retainer should firmly secure the blade on the wiper arm.
Lower the wiper arm onto the windshield.
For safety reasons, change the brushes once or twice a year.
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