How To Replace Wiper Arms 2004-09 Audi A4

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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall the wiper arms to the 2007 Audi A4. This procedures is pretty much the same for any 2003-2008 Audi A4, as well as other years. It's also the same for the S4 and RS4 Sedan and Wagon. Items you'll need for this are a flat blade screwdriver, a 16mm socket and ratchet or wrench, and a two jaw puller.

Start out, release your hood, open up the driver's door, and pull the hood release lever. Then, up underneath the center of the hood, there's a lever. Pull up the safety latch and pull the hood up.

You'll need to remove the wipers. There're 16mm nuts holding them in and they may have these little caps on the nuts. Use a screwdriver and pry those off. Then remove the two 16mm nuts. I'll use a socket and ratchet to do that. If you're lucky, sometimes you can go into the wiper, push on it and push and pull a little bit and it'll break free. Unfortunately, on this Audi, I don't get lucky and I have to go a puller in order to get the wipers off.

You'll want to get your wipers positioned straight up. Turn the key on, turn the wipers on, and then shut the key off when they're in the straight up position. This will make it easier to get a two jaw puller on. Now I'm going to set a two jaw puller on one of the wiper arms. Basically, the puller arms go down underneath the wiper arm and then the bolt in the puller goes onto the stud that the wiper arm goes onto. Then you tighten up that bolt and pull the wiper off. Just fast-forward here as I set up the puller on the passenger side wiper arm and remove it. If you've done any work on the wiper mechanism or motor, you'll want to run the wiper transmission and then shut the switch off just to make sure it goes back into its parked position.

Now, you could put your wipers back in place. Again, when you did the test, if you shut the switch off the motor went to its parked position. You can see, actually, the dirt on the windshield. I left that there for a reason. I know that that's where the wipers stopped. I could just put the wiper back down on that same spot, press it down on, and then put the nut back on and do the same thing for the driver's side.

Okay, now as I fast-forward, obviously one thing to notice if you took that black plastic trim panel off, you would want to put that on before you put the wipers in place. Tighten them up, hold the wipers in place as you tighten, and tightening those nuts and pressing them down... pressing the wipers down onto the transmission is what hold the wiper arms in place. I'll fast-forward as I do the other one. Put the trim caps back in place, hood down, and then you could do a quick test.

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