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Re:wiper blades, the shaft is both tapered and mildly splined. Remove the nut, don't lose the washer, then tap the hub of the wiper arm with the plastic handle of a screwdriver. It should pop off due to the loading from the spring that applies pressure on the windshield. HTH. Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA 1990 Coupe Quattro >---------- >From: smolin@kerner.com[SMTP:smolin@kerner.com] >Sent: Monday, March 25, 1996 5:37 PM >To: quattro-digest@coimbra.ans.net >Subject: Re: 1992 Audi 100S - System Check Display > >[begin include from rao (Mar 25, 12:01)] >> >> Hmmm -- that has me wondering. On my '91 200Q, the auto-check >> display starts displaying garbage once in a while, especially >> if the car has been out in the sun a lot. And I remember that >> one of the cars I looked at (an '89) had the display permanently >> displaying garbage. I suppose it's possible that bad soldering >> could be responsible for this as well ... anyone else see similar >> symptoms on their cars? (You know, the relatively low-tech >> scheme on my '85 is probably a more robust one). >> >[end of include] > > >Yup, my '92 100 CSQ has this problem intermittently. I'm not sure, >but I think it might be bump related. That is, I go over a bump, and >motion in the corner of my eye makes me look down, and the display >shows garbage. It's getting some input, because if I change the radio >station, the garbage changes. I think it stays bad until I've shut it >off and restarted. > >I'm a big fan of high-tech gadgets, but driving this car makes me >very nervous about all the electronics that can go very expensively >wrong. > >By the way, my windshield wipers are positioned wrong (any ideas why?). >I can remove the nut, but they're still very solidly fixed down. Is there >some trick, like a clip or somehing holding them on? > > > > > > >-- >Steve Molin, amateur praxeologist first class >-- > >
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