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Originally Posted by higher planes
it's a w201. All the nuts that hold the wiper assembly to the frame of the car are off. The nuts you see in the picture are part of the wiper assembly itself. The wiper arm motor is the actual component that's giving me clearance problems. Perhaps I need to detach it from the rest of the wiper assembly?
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On a 201 there are two nuts one on either side of the mechanism you have to look up under there to see, if you've already removed those fine. There is a bracket at the front of that compartment which holds a plastic and metal bracket into which a prong at the bottom edge of the wiper transmission fits. You need to remove the 10 mm nut at the front firewall on the engine compartment side to free that bracket, usually then you can either pull the bracket of the prong or the prong from the not loose and unsecured bracket.
I see that you're eventually going deep for the blower motor/fan assembly, then you need to remove the panel at the front of that compartment, it's part of the engine compartment firewall. There are two plastic screws and if I remember two or four other 8 mm screws that hold that panel in place, there is a sponge weather strip along the top edge, two little spring steel clips where the two edges of sheet metal overlap on each side. If you have a tool with a 90 degree hook/bend on it's end that is the easiest way to pop the spring clips that hold the blower box together.