Removing and installing rear window wiper motor: Audi A3
Step-by-step removing and installing rear window wiper motor for the Audi A3: 11 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
📋 Procedure
- Remove wiper arm .
- Remove trim at bottom of rear lid 70.
- Unplug electrical connector (2).
- Disconnect washer fluid hose (1) from connecting pipe for washer jet.
- Remove nuts (arrows) and detach wiper motor.
- Carefully insert rubber seal into hole in rear window.
- Switch on ignition.
- Actuate rear wiper and allow wiper motor to move to end position.
- Switch off ignition.
- Install trim at bottom of rear lid 70.
- Adjust wiper arm .
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