Icy windshield wipers?

[evo_85]

hi all
This is my first post on here since i have recently bought a w202 c230k.
quick question.. My windshield wipers were working fine all day...since had a lot of icy rain and generally ridiculously low temperature (-6 celsius).
Now they arent really wiping away any water from the windshield..this is as of tonight...so just a few hours from when i last drove it and it worked fine.
Is this temporary? can it be fixed? help?
Might be a silly question since this is my first winter with a car here. Im guessing its because the wiper blades have iced up? They are moving across the windshield...just not wiping anything.

any help will be much appreciated

[sneijder]

Because the car only has one blade, the linkage has a 'gearing' on it so it moves in and out of the central hub to get into the corners. Quite a lot of the time this gearing gets loose and floppy (not a cheap fix either). Grab the wiper arm and try and push it all the way back into the central hub, might make a difference.

[Parrot of Doom]

http://mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread

[rcarr]

We had the exact same problem with our E-Class, driving through the Dumfries and Galloway and the Lake District with outside temperature of -6 to -8 degrees, the window washer fluid would freeze on impact or would freeze along the wiper. We just had to keep stopping at services or on the hard shoulder to spray the wiper with de-icer, it worked for a while.