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hi guys any good tips for clearing a blocked windscreen washer? any tips appreciated
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pin if jets are blocked.
Otherwise disconnect pipes from jets and connect to footpump and reverse blast blockage back into washer bottle, then siphon contents out with wide tube / hosepipe.
If your tubes/pipes are really green/black, can try washing them out, but sometimes easier just to replace with tubing from a Motor factors.
If rear washer, accessing tube means removing loads of trim, although some will pull out, in which case you need to clamp tube loose enough to allow flow, but firm enough to stop it popping forever down the hole in the hatch.
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Piece of wire off wire brush.
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Forgot - if pin is too big, need to get hold of fine wire..
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I've used a bike pump to give a good sharp blast of air with success before. I guess it depends on the exact nature of the blockage . This was one that a fine piece of wire inserted into the nozzle wasn't fixing.
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Sometimes pushing a bit of wire or a pin down the nozzle just pushes whatever was blocking it back inside the pipework. Next time you squirt, whatever was blocking it previously blocks it again as it's carried back up with the fluid. Therefore it's sometimes best to blow through from the reverse side of the nozzle (ie, where the pipe is fitted)
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First the nozzle; disconnect the nozzle(s) from the tube(s) - don't lose the tube in the bodywork (clothes pegs work well for me), poke the nozzle out with a thin wire or pin from the jet end, then (important IMO) ream out the pipe end with a small drill twizzled twixt thumb and finger. Drink glass of water and spit it out through nozzle to check jet is totally clear.
Now the reservoir; with the tubes left open, run washer fluid into a clear bottle and look critically for foreign bodies (not immigrants, I mean grit, floaties, dead spiders etc.) If any trace, then stick a hosepipe to the bottom of the washer bottle and flush out thoroughly. Run the washers again without the nozzles and check as above. Repeat flushing if necessary. Reassemble and adjust the jets. Fill only with a reputable fluid or Clearalex and meths.
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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