Broken Windscreen Wiper Stalk

[aat]

First off I'll just say that I've been reading this forum for a while and it is an excellent resource.

This morning whilst driving to work some f**kwit decided to drive on the wrong side of the road and headed straight for me. In the ensuing braking chaos I somehow managed to break the windscreen wiper stalk and the said f**kwit drove off in a hurry without me getting my hands on them or taking their number plate .

Anyway, i've managed to source a replacement but I was wondering how easy/difficult would it be to replace the stalk myself? It looks as if I would neeed to remove the streering column housing but I'm not sure how I would go about this. Am I better off taking it to a stealers?

Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[cheezemonkhai]

If you are not confident playing around with airbags then pay somebody to do it as an airbag module is very expensive and dangerous too.

There is a guide on :

Octavia-vrs.com

That details taking the stalks off for fitting cruise IIRC.

Anyway if you do take a go at it yourself make sure you disconnect the battery and give it half hour or before you touch it.

[aat]

Thanks for the reply. I did check Stu's website but it looks as if the cruise control fitting guide has been removed.

Anyway, if it involves removing the airbag then I think I'll leave it to the pros. Thanks again.