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Hi, Are rs6 blades the same as ordinary a6 ones?

i guess so. go to halfords and see if they list the same blade for the 2 cars. Some mug before me paid 72 quid for 2 wiper blades from Audi according to my receipts! Bet you can get Bosch ones for 15 -20 quid from halfords.
A tip to ,is to get yourself a trade account if you can at halfords. Massive discount. 25 quid pair of wipers from halfords for my supra came to 6 quid with the trade discount. In fact another one, 68 quid battery was 22 quid with trade card. I have loads of trade accounts and halfords are beating them all by miles on price. But dont think you can get parts for the rs6 there.

correct, they are a standard a6 part - i believe that the carrier is different, but common with the v8 & s6

I've got a trade account at a local supplier but the book shows conflicting info. The ones I bought, which were model specific, had completely wrong fitting. The book says fit up to 2004? Will pop to local Halfrauds and see what there books say.

I'm pretty sure that the wipers changed during the production years for the A/S/RS6. I had standard wipers (although the sprung blades were "encased" rather than open), but later models had the aero wipers IIRC.

I now use the Aero wipers from VAGParts for the A6 4B. The refils for these are about £30 for both.

Cheers

definitely different wipers between the our rs and the 2004 allroad. probanbly the same blades but the allroad doesn't have the aero blade holders that the rs does....

Can the rubber blades be changed? I did this on my rear wiper, and the Audi dealer gave me that for nothing.

I bought standard A6 Bosch wipers from halfords, they were the wrong type. The standard RS6 blades from Audi should be around 45 inc vat for all three.

I pay £30 fitted for two at Audi. Cant believe some muppet paid £70 for wipers!!

Car serviced today, was charged £26 for new wipers fitted.

Did an exceptionally good job of cleaning car inside & out, usually get a quick outside hose down, but they excelled themselves and topped it off by charging less than quoted service price and a text-book tin of sweets, which i ate half of the tin sat in traffic on the way home. must now book a trip to dentist.

and pump up the air in the tyres to account for extra weight.....