2003 Passat wiper blade change confusion

Roger Hempel > wrote:
> your really going to feel stupid lift arm all the way up turn blabe 90
> degrees and remove from arm its only on a pin

I'm not talking about removing the wiper assembly from arm. I'm trying
to remove the rubber blade from the assembly.

The URL posted elsewhere in the thread does a good job of showing most
of the bits, but the end caps on my wipers may be slightly different.
I'm not certain.

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Darren Dunham
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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Darren Dunham wrote:

> Roger Hempel > wrote:
>
>>your really going to feel stupid lift arm all the way up turn blabe 90
>>degrees and remove from arm its only on a pin
>
>
> I'm not talking about removing the wiper assembly from arm. I'm trying
> to remove the rubber blade from the assembly.
>
> The URL posted elsewhere in the thread does a good job of showing most
> of the bits, but the end caps on my wipers may be slightly different.
> I'm not certain.
>

If they are like the ones on the '02 GTI I had, you just squeeze the two
stainless rails together gently with a pair of pliers and then the
insert and the rails slide out of the blade. Then you cut the refill to
length, put the rails in their little grooves, and reassembly is the
reverse etc. You have to look at it close to see which end you have to
squeeze together, one of the ends will have a little raised area around
the fingers on the blade. It will make sense when you have it in front
of you. Of course, it could be completely different, in which case
you'll be sadly confused.

nate

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Nate Nagel > wrote:
> If they are like the ones on the '02 GTI I had, you just squeeze the two
> stainless rails together gently with a pair of pliers and then the
> insert and the rails slide out of the blade.

I'll give that a try, but it doesn't sound correct. The end cap has a
plastic clip that fits into the bottom of the metal guide. Without
being able to see the clip, I wasn't able to guide something in to undo
it.

> Then you cut the refill to
> length, put the rails in their little grooves, and reassembly is the
> reverse etc. You have to look at it close to see which end you have to
> squeeze together, one of the ends will have a little raised area around
> the fingers on the blade. It will make sense when you have it in front
> of you. Of course, it could be completely different, in which case
> you'll be sadly confused.

Sounds completely different. I've completed the refill (normal fixed
metal guides in the wiper assembly), I've just managed to damage one of
the end caps in the process and would like to avoid doing so in the
future.

Basically the earlier link shows the wipers I have. The only difference
is that one of the shots seems to show an opening on the end cap for
releasing it. Mine don't have any such opening.

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Darren Dunham
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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