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Contact angle specifications
Vehicle side
Contact angle
Driver's side
-9° ±0°
Passenger's side
-3° ±0°
Adjusting wiper arms
- Switch wiper on and off and allow it to return to park position.
- Detach wiper blade.
- -> Insert wiper arm -2- in wiper arm adjustment tool 3358 and fix in position with lock screw -3-.
- Apply 24 mm open-ended wrench -1- to adjustment tool and set wiper arm -2- to specified angle -arrows-
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- Slacken off lock screw -3- and pull wiper arm -2- out of adjustment tool.
- Re-insert wiper arm -2- in wiper arm adjustment tool 3358 and fix in position again with lock screw -3-.
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- If necessary, repeat setting and checking procedure until specification is attained.
- Detach adjustment tool and fit wiper blade.
2 - Servicing windscreen washer system
2.1 - Servicing windscreen washer system
Attention:
◆ Disconnect battery earth strap before working on electrical system.
◆ On vehicles fitted with telematics system, activate telematics control-unit service mode before disconnecting
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- Heed (if necessary obtain) code for vehicles with encoded radio/radio navigation system (RNS).
- Disconnect battery earth strap with ignition switched off.
Note:
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Audi A3 1997 ➤
Electrical system - Edition 10.2003
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