My neighbour...a fellow TD....but works for the other side
...was in dispair yesterday.....his wipers stopped working....he has a Veccy 53 plate.
I took a look for him....the ball joint/socket had come adrift drivers side....loose arm had took out another ball joint/socket in the middle off the scuttle area....meaning no wipers
I got the one back on in the middle of the scuttle with a postive click type noise.....but the drivers side altho i lined it up ok was not very positive and loose.
Looking at it....it looks like a ball and socket arrangement...with a rubbber/grommet which i think holds grease in it.... :-/ grommet was split and i think the socket arrangement had leaked the grease and the reason for the wearing off the balljoint and hence the failure
Anyway got him going again with a cable tie holding the ball socket joint together.....not sure how long this will last :-/
But i thought this was crap!!! 3 yo car and the wipers fail!!
Looked it up on EPC for the complete wiper mechanism part no......dunno how much these are....but guess they arent cheap :-/
I would think omegas have the same type of wiper mechanism
:-/