Dear fellow Punto owners,
I have one big mother of a headache to deal with. Last night my driver side windscreen wiper decided to call it a day (not much fun driving whilst having to lean over to the passengers side to look when it's raining). I stop, popped the bonnet and noticed that the mechanism (series of arms rivetted together that basically go left to right left to right for the wiper blades to work) had come away from it's mounting.
The only way of describing it is the fixing (the arm which has a hole and where the "bolt" goes through) has somehow come away, thus leaving the wiper in a vertical position. I looked to see if a nut or screw had come away but it seems that it was secured by a compressed rivet. I can slot it into place and it works for a few swipes and then does a repeat. I tried for five hours last night with bolts and nuts, drilling thru the arms to mount bigger bolts etc etc etc and then called it quits. The area is not the most ample in size. To get in there I think you have to remove the plastic guard civer than surrounds the blades but to get that off you have to remove the bonnet.
Has anyone experienced this and does anyone have any advice on how to do it? Thanks a mil !
:bang:
I have one big mother of a headache to deal with. Last night my driver side windscreen wiper decided to call it a day (not much fun driving whilst having to lean over to the passengers side to look when it's raining). I stop, popped the bonnet and noticed that the mechanism (series of arms rivetted together that basically go left to right left to right for the wiper blades to work) had come away from it's mounting.
The only way of describing it is the fixing (the arm which has a hole and where the "bolt" goes through) has somehow come away, thus leaving the wiper in a vertical position. I looked to see if a nut or screw had come away but it seems that it was secured by a compressed rivet. I can slot it into place and it works for a few swipes and then does a repeat. I tried for five hours last night with bolts and nuts, drilling thru the arms to mount bigger bolts etc etc etc and then called it quits. The area is not the most ample in size. To get in there I think you have to remove the plastic guard civer than surrounds the blades but to get that off you have to remove the bonnet.
Has anyone experienced this and does anyone have any advice on how to do it? Thanks a mil !
:bang: