Re: A4 windshield wiper oddities

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3.0.3.32.19981013125026.012e9770@popd.ix.netcom.com> Steve Manning writes:

> - Driver's side (USA model): on the type-44 cars, the 'airfoil' that helps
> hold the wiper arm down at speed was on the wiper arm, so that when you
> changed the blade or insert it was untouched.  However, on the A4, the
> 'airfoil' is part of the replaceable wiper blade, so if you change to
> another brand of blade (like for winter use), you lose the airfoil.

It was part of the wiper and not the arm on my 1980 Scirocco.

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