New car .................well it's new to me.


Ongoing maintenance on my 2011MY, SD4 HSE

There was an annoying loud ticking sound when the wipers came to their right hand extent. I took them off and removed the plastic cover (do they call it the plenum cover) to find the wiper mechanism arm was scraping on the windscreen heater elements, A quick fix using using three cable ties to hold the elements away from the arm and it's now cured.

Is the chamber easy to get off ? Now you've done it any tips ? My heated screen is dodgy would like to check the connections.

The main problem I had was in spite of using a small purpose made puller,was getting the wiper arms off the splined shaft. Or rather one was easy the other one a pig. I resorted to using penetrating oil and turning the puller with a pair of grips.



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Once off it's just I think five screw clips and the plenum cover just pulls forward starting at one edge. It simply comes off.

It easily goes back into position.

Last edited by I Like Chips on 8th Aug 2017 8:36 am. Edited 1 time in total

Thank you for that

Not much help to you now but for the future I have found this invaluable from Halfrods.
It's actually a ball joint splitter but works amazingly well, they just pop right off. Just remember to leave the nut on the thread so the tool doesn't skate off the spindle

http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/too...tsid:94971|cid:865695754|agid:42483195983|tid:pla-331463654878|crid:203186066553|nw:g|rnd:2386388301506946827|dvc:c|adp:1o1|loc:9046830&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs9DRsJTH1QIV8TLTCh0z6gg5EAQYASABEgJDePD_BwE

It's a pity there isn't a like button to push. There is always some way to do stuff.