I've got an 04 Touran TDI and during the recent cold snap, the missus obviously decided to be over enthusiastic with freeing up the wipers when frozen solid.

With an amazing feat of strength she has somehow managed to snap the metal strut that goes from where the wiper arm is attached to the car, parallel with the windscreen to fix the location of the wiper.

It's a silver strut of metal that it about 8 inches long and is completely sheared off, thus allowing the wiper to go anywhere it wants to, at the moment it is currently scraping paint of the underside of my bonnet each time it wipes.

I've tried to identify the part but to no avail.

Do I give up and just take it to the local dealers?