'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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!