Andy Fitz

Swapped my stalk this weekend and so far so good, nice to have a working windscreen wash again. Thanks for doing the donkey work and leaving the instructions, it made the swap very easy to do. I have an airbag warning light now but I think this can just be reset by my garage. Hopefully if anyone else has this problem (We can't be the only ones) this post will help.

I have bought the wiper/washer stalk so will swap this on it's own, any info you can give on doing the swap would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback, very helpful. How easy was it removing the steering wheel? Never had to do this on a modern car with airbags

Thanks for the feedback, I'll be very interested in how you get on. I'm confused though about the cruise control that you mention, my cruise control is on a completely different stalk on the left side of the column behind the indicator stalk.

Yes, my fault is pretty much the same, in the intermittent position the wipers can work properly (the wash will also work at this time) but sometimes it will work as single speed wipe or not at all, when this happens the wash does not work either. Moving the stalk rapidly between different positions sometimes gets it to work normally again. Like you I'm not sure how to safely remove the steering wheel to get to the stalk which is why I was going to start by checking relays or the ECU that might switch these functions after the stalk

I have a windscreen washer and intermittent wiper fault on 2011 A4. If it is not the control stalk on the steering column, what operates the washer and wiper functions after the stalk? Is it simple relays or an ECU and where would they be located?

I have an A4 1.9 Diesel and for some time have had erratic problems with the windscreen washer and wipers. The windscreen washer (Pull stalk back) only works about 10% of the time, usually no washer motor activates and no movement of the wipers. Sometimes the single wipe (Stalk push down) doesn't work, sometimes the intermittent wipe (Stalk one click up) works as single speed wipe or sometimes not at all, sometimes single speed wipe (Stalk two clicks up) acts as double speed wipe, it really is all over the place. My local garage have looked at it but say that they can't tell if it is the stalk or the ECU and it is expensive to replace either to only find out it doesn't cure the fault. Has anyone come across a similar problem and does the wiper system have its own ECU or would it be controlled by the main engine ECU?