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I did check that he has been logged in this February. Seemed very similar to my issue so do not see the problem with checking if he ever got to the bottom with it.

Did you ever resolve this issue and could you share what the problem was?

Did you manage to do this and have info and pictures to share?

Anyone who have a picture of this? I need to adjust one of the fogs on my Mk2 (2012).

Nope, they were really worn and corroded so scrapped them. And the car is only used for short drives near home - until they this 500 ride a few days ago… If OEM is not stupid expensive I’ll buy a new pair. I bought really cheap ones from AUTODOC, looked and felt “the part” but apparently did not cut it.

I’ve swapped the arms since they were corroded. The blades were swapped for new Bosch Aeroblades (used those many cars over the years) and pretty sure the new non-OEM arms apply too little pressure, tried to bend a “C” shaped part to get extra tension but did not work. Never thought of trying to bend the actual Bosch blades, does it really work since they are so flexible? Will try anyway. Leaning on getting OEM arms since this is super annoying even on a 2nd car.

Gah, bought non-OEM wiper arms since the original ones were worn and bad looking. Now the pressure is too low on the middle part and I get streaks and water film right in the field of vision. Quite tiring on a 6 hour drive with rain for 5,5 hrs… How much are new OEM arms and is this problem non-existing with originals? I have tried to squeeze one part to increase pressure but no luck. https://share.icloud.com/photos/09cOPDnIlnyBSkY9X5r2k_8kA

Nope, the car ran fine for 1,5 months and then suddenly stutter and EPC light plus limp mode (until stopped and started). No stop/start on this manual 1.2TSI. Batteries are not worth anything here so in recycling now.

Got some slight stutters and one limp mode after another month without any charging so deemed the battery as gone. With a new Bosch S5 005 the car runs perfectly. Wanted to buy a battery tester but that cost almost as much as a new battery so did not bother to check before I tossed the old one. All good now

A bit of googling gives that I may want to tap into a non-critical fuse such as the rear windshield wiper and hide a female USB connector to plug into. Will let you know what I come up with.

I just installed a Brodit ProClip mount and a QI-charger from a previous car. Will install a hidden bluetooth dongle behind the stereo with a two meter cable for the mic. 1) Any good advice where to put the mic? I am thinking around/through the sunglass holder in the roof and route it inside the A-pillar. 2) This would look neat with QI and BT, i.e. no cables EXCEPT for a super ugly USB-A to USB-C cable from under the handbrake all the way to underneath the phone holder. Is there any place I could get “the juice” from inside the dash so I could have almost concealed power?

The battery gives 12,7-12,8 volts but without starting, did not bother to disconnect it since we’ve used the car daily now. Last week I erased all codes, 2 were left: air condition flap and brakes. Tested an aircondition test cycle with the OBD-app, it ran the fan on highest and cycled through all different vents for quite some time. After that I put the battery on charge per above. Note: my ride does not have start/stop-function and is manual. The car runs perfect now, have asked my spouse to report any stutter or similar but she has not noticed anything. AND - when I checked errror codes now I got 0 (zero). Will regard the car as working fine for now. Thanks for help and ideas 🙂

Now it just runs flawlessly so will park this thread. The two codes I can find when scanning are unrelated to any stutter but now I have not felt after driving 2-4 hours and my spouse have not felt anything weird when driving either. Maybe the battery was rather flat, have let it charge for 5-6x24 hours som my Ctek charger regards it as full.

Looks like like this so I’ll try to adjust when Spring is here in Stockholm. Not a big issue but I like to chase away all defects possible and that does not cost much.

Will check if it looks the same on the Fabia. Would not want use brute force so loosening a couple of screws seems better. https://youtu.be/9YbWcSXBFSk