Hi
Is this a job I can tackle myself? The heated screen connectors have ripped off the wife's rear screen (as I was trying to unplug it to trace a fault, mea culpa). As my local scrapyard has several in I was wondering if it was feasible to do a home replacement.
Not an easy job as it is bonded. Best to get the screen and ask a windscreen firm to renew for you. Get quotes from a few first.
It's hardly worth it. The car was only £700 a couple of years ago and I'm not going to shell out money on something non essential. I might tried a metal loaded glue to rejoint the connectors. It would probably be almost as easy to replace the entire tailgate.
Hi,
Worthes a try IMO, as I've already heard of that trick on another NG. Fail detection is pretty difficult on screen heaters as you have to find a voltage drop along a resistor. Still it's possible, I repaired almost all my wires using some contact repairer - only 3 working on my car. I even will have to perform another check, as there's another one missing now :-/
HTH, G.T
205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :
In this case it's the spade connectors that the wires from the tailgate go to that have pulled of the screen.
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