Broken windscreen wiper - help?

bp5678 · 22 July 2019 at 11:49AM

Hi I drive a fairly new Seat Ibiza (2017) and on sunday I woke up to find someone has vandalised my windscreen wiper on the driver side. He/she has bent the blade (bought a new one) and as he/she pulled it up, the spring has snapped off as well as chipping some of the paint. I went to Halfords and bought a new blade however they didn't stock the springs meaning it's only half fixed. Currently the new blade doesn't make contact with the windscreen wiper so it's not actually touching the windscreen. Also if i did use the windscreen it'll brush a tiny bit of the bonnet and therefore damage the paintwork.

There's a Seat car garage near me however they say I can't buy the spring individually and would need to buy a whole new blade which costs £51.60. I guess they're going to charge a premium. I wanted to buy the spring online at a far cheaper (or if i can't do that i'll buy the arm online at a far cheaper price) however I'm absolutely useless with cars so didn't want to buy the wrong one. Would someone be able to kindly help source this online which will work for my car/windscreen wiper.

This is how the wiper currently looks: https://i.imgur.com/EMuiR0q.jpg

Thanks

neilmcl · 22 July 2019 at 12:04PM

Search on ebay for Seat front wiper arm, or use the part no. if you can get it. Personally I'd probably stump up the cash and get a new one fitted as you may be needing it sooner than later.