ULP said:
It's an easy two minute job,and on the basis my technical ability stretches to reaching for the yellow pages to find a mechanic even an untrained horse could do it
Who's implying I could be an untrained horse here?!
Anyway, I just finished readjusting the wiper.
And in my case I thought it wasn't as easy as you made it sound.
First of all, the bonnet needs to come off. But that's nothing new to me.
Then the problem was that after removing the bolt you mentioned, that the wiper is still very firmly in place. I guess the shaft is conical, making it grasp the wiper when pulled in by the bolt.
Anyway, I applied some serious force to the wiper-assembly by putting a screwdriver below it and using the other wiper-joint for leverage. It only needed to move up a fraction and suddenly it was loose.
I then moved the entire assembly up and bolted it down again. However, I wasn't happy with the amount it had changed, so I went through the same procedure again.
My wiper is now quite high up the windscreen. Where it first virtually touched the corner of the bonnet, it now is a good 10 cm more upwards. I have no idea if this will affect wind noise and it also looks a bit strange, but at least the wiper now reaches up until the last few centimeters of the windscreen. I'll have to find out over the next few days.
So there you have it. Untrained horses on the job !
Edo