Our backwater VW Dealership stocks these programmable wiper relays at under
$C40 (under $US30). So if ordering one ask, for the programmable one. Otherwise
they'll send you the stock (fixed) relay.
Seek and ye shall find.
Larry
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The Bus Depot wrote:

> > The VW programmable front wiper relay number is 357-955-531
>
> I've been through this before.  The 357-955-531 supercedes to a
> 1HM-955-531A, which supercedes to a B, which supercedes to a C, which is
> NOT programmable.  I have not tried my alternate sources on this item but I
> do know that if you order this relay from Volkswagen, the one they send you
> will be a Fixed, not Programmable, intermittant relay.
>
> -Ron Salmon
>  The Bus Depot
>  http://www.busdepot.com