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Guide: Cleaning leaves from wiper motor area. Solving leaks!
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Took a bunch of photos as part of my project thread, but thought I'd may as well put the same photos into its own guide too, as I couldn't find a guide outlining this.

Now, mine wasn't leaking & I didn't have any problems, but I thought I'd do this just to be safe. So I've read, leaves gather below the wiper motor, proceed to block the drain hole, then you get horrible water in drivers footwell. Its a yearly, or maybe once every couple year job to do, and doesn't take very long.

Remove wipers (remove cap then 13mm nuts). Then remove driver & passenger plastic scuttle trims
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Need to remove this triangular brace thing. x3 13mm bolts
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Looks like this. Now go ahead and remove the x4 10mm bolts around wiper motor, and the final 10mm bolt holding the passenger side wiper stub/spline on
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Disconnect wiper plug, remove entire thing, and it looks something like this. Horrible!
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Pick out leaves & stuff. Put some lock on steering, and you can chuck water/brake cleaner in the area to flush everything out. The hole at the bottom comes out on top of the wheel arch liner, with some lock on, you can poke your figure through to clear it all out
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Re-fit everything in order. I cleaned up the brace too, and copper-greased all bolts
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Job done Smile Check wipers work once its all back together & plugged in
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