Average time to failure for A4 Windscreen wiper motor and linkage

[Evsie]

I have an 54 plate A4, 1.9 TDI, Rep mobile. 128,000 on the clock so its been around a bit.
The wiper motor and linkage has recently given up with a very expensive dealer only replacement stinging my pocket.

Has any one had a similar experience? I feel that 3.5 yrs and 128K miles is very soon for these parts to be dying in need of repalcement.

I was hoping to challenge Audi UK and was hoping if anyone had Average Time to Failure details for these parts??

Cheers Amigos.

Matt

[elPaulio]

Hey Matt,

Forgive my ignorance, but surely nothing is a "dealer only replacement" ??

Paul

[kurtas2006]

My one also went after about 4 years (100K on the clock).

The motor was fine though, I would go to a trusted indi rather than a dealer, how do you know the motor has gone ?

[Evsie]

cheers Guys,

ElPaulio, i tried to track one down via a few GSF parts suppliers, but was told it was not stocked! Audi themselves didint have one in the UK. Which obviously added to the "pain" of getting it replaced.

Kurtas, i had a couple of Indy mechanics have a look at it and the diagnosis was the motor and linkage, prior to taking it into the dealer.


Its fixed now after nearly a week at the dealer! on the very plus side i did have a A4 AVANT S-LINE to play with for a few days. pretty expensive courtesy car though!

[kurtas2006]

Did you try ebay ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/audi-a3-a4-all...3286.m14.l1318

[Isoproturon]

My linkage went at just shy of 160K (4 yrs); £63 or so and York Audi had a few in stock. I think the motors go if the linkage seizes and the can't cope with the strain. I replaced the linkage myself with guidance from the Haynes manual; took less than 1 hr.

[Marco34]

I spray the joints with silicon spray every autumn.. so far so good on a 7 year old car.

[inertia]

My linkage has been making horrible noiuses for abotu 6 motnhs now, my car is 4 years old and 92k miles, I have tried greasing it all up with spray on white grease which only helped breifly.

I wonderif its the same linkage used on Golf 4`s ? they ahve the same problem it seems.

sometimes I wish I had just stuck with my B5 2.8Q, it was a much better built car, and at 9 years old with 130k on the clock it had none of the problems ive had with my B6 3.0QS, in fact it had no problems at all.