Mk1 Fiat Punto Rear Wiper Replacement.

[Gingerbread Man]

My girlfriend has a MK1 Fiat Punto as mentioned above.

She is looking to replace the rear wiper blade as it's worse than rubbish.

Looking at it, it doesn't appear to be your typical wiper mount. By typical I mean, not like the front wiper blades.

Does the whole arm need to be replaced, or does the wiper blade slip out somehow?

If the latter, how does it disconnect?


David.

[Gingerbread Man]

Bump

[thepickle]

When I did mine recently, I was 99% sure you had to get the whole arm, and couldn't find the blade on it's own anywhere, but I see Shop4Parts have a rear wiper blade for the mk1 so not sure now. Anyway, I got the whole arm as that's all I could get at the time (needed immediately for MOT). It's dead easy to do, there's a plastic cap covering the single bolt holding the whole thing on. You just flip back this cover and unscrew the bolt.

[Gingerbread Man]

A search on ebay turns up the blade and the whole arm. Blade being half the price.

Bit of a pain to do?

Edited by Gingerbread Man on Monday 12th January 17:55

[Mark-2]

You can replace the blade by itself, just slide the old one out and slide the new one in.

I did my girlfriend's one last week and it's easy enough

EDIT - Can't get onto Ebay at work so not sure of their prices but Shop4Parts have them for £6.85 delivered and their delivery time is usually next day

Edited by Mark-2 on Monday 12th January 12:35

[Gingerbread Man]

Thanks for the help Mark-2

I have bought the rubber replacement from the site you recommended, hopefully it will be a quick job. Failing that I'll moan at Dave to do it for me :P

Nyssa (the girlfriend)