Great help! Thanks so much. Some strange faults occur after fixing the wiper arm back. I pushed the water button and the right arm stand still while the left was moving. I switched the ignition off and disassembled the whole arm. Now I wanted to bring the left arm in the right position by switching the ignition on and turning the wiper handle on pos 1, but nothing happend. No movement any more. So I assembled the left arm again by tightening the bold tough and decided to check the fuse No. 46 (motor cabinet left side if you are watching in front). Fuse ok. ??? Wiper motor defect? I was reading out the fault log, but no fault in the ECU. ??? I turned on the motor and magic magic, the wiper was working properly. Thanks again for this money saver (149,00 Euro without fixing in Germany).
Hi G, I’m not sure that will make a difference. While I was fixing this, I noticed the main bolt the wiper arm was attached to moves up and down (ie you can pull it up by about half centimetre). This motion lifts up the wiper blade causing the mis-wipe. I’m also not sure if that is normal for that bolt to do that.
Hello MrZpiros, unfortunately I haven’t found another solution (at least for my car. I suspect the root cause of this problem is because the shaft of the wiper motor where the arm is connected to is damaged (due to bad design) and it now moves up and down causing the whole arm to lift the blade away from the windsheild. If the wiper blade on you car is not “lifted” too much, I’ve seen some videos where they bend the ends of the wiper blade away from the windsheild to reduce the upward pressure it imposes into the wiper arm.
Hi, Im sorry I don’t know the code for the bearing in the wiper arm but you can try the guys who made the below video. They seem to be selling the bearing kit in their website. th-cam.com/video/DR-N0Xd0274/w-d-xo.htmlsi=t6ebjVa7_cqrIVDy
From what I can see, its seems to be caused by either a failed bearing mechanism similar to what is shown in this other video: th-cam.com/video/DR-N0Xd0274/w-d-xo.htmlsi=RwJlT2kRKv1OvkkX Or the actual motor shaft itself. Either way, not sure why yours would start to fail after your mechanic “serviced” your car 🤷♂️ I mean did the mechanic turned on the wiper while servicing the car?
Great help! Thanks so much. Some strange faults occur after fixing the wiper arm back. I pushed the water button and the right arm stand still while the left was moving. I switched the ignition off and disassembled the whole arm. Now I wanted to bring the left arm in the right position by switching the ignition on and turning the wiper handle on pos 1, but nothing happend. No movement any more. So I assembled the left arm again by tightening the bold tough and decided to check the fuse No. 46 (motor cabinet left side if you are watching in front). Fuse ok. ??? Wiper motor defect? I was reading out the fault log, but no fault in the ECU. ??? I turned on the motor and magic magic, the wiper was working properly. Thanks again for this money saver (149,00 Euro without fixing in Germany).
Did this to my S203 c220 CDI. All fixed in 10 minutes. Thanks
Awesome! Mine is starting to separate again that no amount of bending can fix 😢
nicely done!!
Perhaps your wiper position is a bit too low to hit the cowl plastic - - Shift it up by one tooth then Loctite the nut.
Hi G, I’m not sure that will make a difference. While I was fixing this, I noticed the main bolt the wiper arm was attached to moves up and down (ie you can pull it up by about half centimetre). This motion lifts up the wiper blade causing the mis-wipe. I’m also not sure if that is normal for that bolt to do that.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I have the same problem. Have you found another way other than bending the wiper?
Hello MrZpiros, unfortunately I haven’t found another solution (at least for my car. I suspect the root cause of this problem is because the shaft of the wiper motor where the arm is connected to is damaged (due to bad design) and it now moves up and down causing the whole arm to lift the blade away from the windsheild.
If the wiper blade on you car is not “lifted” too much, I’ve seen some videos where they bend the ends of the wiper blade away from the windsheild to reduce the upward pressure it imposes into the wiper arm.
@@AutosNGizmosThey developed this new type of issue to sell wiper arms because arm has a pivot that wears out 👍
hi, any ideea of the code for the bearing in that wiper arm?
Hi, Im sorry I don’t know the code for the bearing in the wiper arm but you can try the guys who made the below video. They seem to be selling the bearing kit in their website.
th-cam.com/video/DR-N0Xd0274/w-d-xo.htmlsi=t6ebjVa7_cqrIVDy
@@AutosNGizmos thanks! I have fixed it! New bearings in it. Manage to find a faster and better way to take out the outer raceway of the bearing!
What causes this? Because i got my car back from the mechanic then it was like yours
From what I can see, its seems to be caused by either a failed bearing mechanism similar to what is shown in this other video: th-cam.com/video/DR-N0Xd0274/w-d-xo.htmlsi=RwJlT2kRKv1OvkkX
Or the actual motor shaft itself. Either way, not sure why yours would start to fail after your mechanic “serviced” your car 🤷♂️ I mean did the mechanic turned on the wiper while servicing the car?
An other solution is don't buy original because the wipes are very slim....install for example boss which are cheaper with bigger surface....
Thanks Panos, thats a good suggestion!