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GoldMerc 02-05-2012 09:41 PM

'86 230E how to put the wiper back!
 
Hello there. I hope someone can help me with this.
It might be something really stupid but I can't find a way to click the mono wiper back into its place after I pulled it up to clean the window. :confused:
There must be a way to click it back but I don't want to force it in and break something.
Please help..:(

'86 230E

Gilly 02-05-2012 11:40 PM

Well, force it but don't break anything!

There really is no trick. If you just pulled it up and it clicked in to place, you just push it back.
Only suggestion I can make is if you are afraid you might break the windshield, take a big stack of old towels and put them on the windshield underneath where the wiper will hit the glass.

GoldMerc 02-06-2012 04:11 AM

Thanks Gilly, I shall try that tomorrow first thing. I'll report back.
cheers

S124300 02-07-2012 07:21 AM

A good shove is usual to push it back down. The click that you heard when lifting the wiper arm up is just the retaining spring engaging.

GoldMerc 02-08-2012 01:57 AM

Wow, it worked! :)
I guess I am used to trouble shooting/fixing gentle electronic equipment and disregarded the potential usefulness of brute force in this case. :D
It was pretty hard though, it must be the age showing.
So I am glad I took the towel on the windshield advice.

Gilly 02-08-2012 04:43 AM

You are right though, it shouldn't be that you feel you are going to damage the arm, possibly a few shots of a spray lube under the arm is in order sometime. Glad you got it. I know there were a few times in my professional career I wish I had grabbed some towels!


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