Hi, Newbie Here,

I drive a 'y' reg Octavia Estate 1.9tdi and discovered this forum a couple of weeks ago when I experienced a loss of power.

After googling and reading up on people who had similar problems I replaced the mass air meter and realised just how much power had drifted away, it,s like driving a new car.

After that success I am now trying to sort out a problem with my wifes car!

My wife has had her new 'X' reg Fabia 1.4mpi for 3 weeks and has just discovered that the front passenger footwell carpet is soaking wet. I removed the glove box then poured water over the windscreen, after approx 30-45 secs a substantial amount of water began to drip from the bottom of the black plastic housing that I assume covers a fan ? I then tried to remove the wiper arms so that I could have a butchers under the plastic cover; I have got the nuts off but I cannot shift the wiper arms! I,m not paticularly handy under the bonnet but i like to have a go. Can anybody help me with the following:-

1. Am I on the right track?
   
2. If so, How on earth do the wiper arms come off (am i just being a bit weedy with them?)
   
3. If not, can you point me in the right direction.

Cheers,

Pie Eater

Just keep giving the search a blast. I found most of my ansers there.

Possible blocked pollen filter on the waterside of things.

Welcome to Briskoda, Sorry your having a bit of trouble.

Im sure someone will point you in the right direction soon on here.

Hiya.

I'd agree that your water ingress problem is most likely a blocked pollen filter.

As to how to remove the wiper arms, the key is to realise that the arm to spindle joint is a "tapered splined joint". So what you need to do is:-

1) Mark where the wiper lies on the windscreen. Or not if you're like me, and will can see where it was from the edge of the dirty mark.

2) Loosen off the lock nut a couple of turns.

3) Using a big screwdriver, lever up the arm until it comes free, which may be with quite a bang, which is why you don't take the nut off. It reduces the risk of scratching the paint on the bonnet.

4) Remove the nut, and lift the loose arm free.