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Offline jazzygm

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The crying car...
« on: 14 July 2004, 23:58 »
Could someone please shed some light on why my washer jets are leaking? at a fairly considerable rate it has to be said, Whenever I stop the car a few minutes later a stream will run down the bonnet from both washer jets, the offside one leaking more than the other.  I'm almost out of the 4 litres of washing fluid since I noticed this start on saturday. Anyone know?
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #1 on: 15 July 2004, 00:11 »
the rubber hoses have a habit of becoming plastic over the years and cracking. a simple fix is to cut them off and reseat them, but obviously if it's really bad then the hose will be too short. perfect excuse to fit blue hoses ;D
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #2 on: 15 July 2004, 00:20 »
Would that make it leak out on to the bonnet though? I would have though if it were the tubes then it would only leak out in the engine bay, and its only leaking around the jets  ???

And where do I get these magical blue hoses you speak of?  ;) ;D

any excuse....
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #3 on: 15 July 2004, 00:24 »
you should be able to locate where it's leaking from. lift the bonnet and get someone to pull the stalk to make them work. if they're cracked you'll see that just by look at them.

What do you mean the bonnet is leaking?

dunno where you get it from. RC cars and planes use it for their fuel lines. maybe a model shop? I know HKS sell vacume tubing, but it's like ?18!
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #4 on: 15 July 2004, 08:04 »
Well, quite simply it looks like the car is crying, two rivers of water run down the lines in the bonnet and trickle over the grill/lights so I assume its leaking directly from the jets, which makes me wonder if its the jets or some sort of seal/pump at the water bottle?
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #5 on: 15 July 2004, 10:14 »
name your car mary and report it to the papers, then charge people to come and view this miracle.

mange tout rodney mange tout.

                             
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #6 on: 15 July 2004, 11:20 »
sounds like the actual 'squirters' are bust from that :)
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #7 on: 15 July 2004, 13:40 »
Quote from: tophuh on 15 July 2004, 10:14
name your car mary and report it to the papers, then charge people to come and view this miracle.

mange tout rodney mange tout.

                             

ROFLMAO!!!
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #8 on: 16 July 2004, 11:05 »
I have a couple of heated washer jets I would be happy to sell you... ;)

On another note if you can find a Golf MK3 down the scrappies nick the washer jets and pipes from that as they are made of a nice black plastic and look much better under the bonnet than old yellow cracked stuff...

And yes, the jets will fit the MK2.  Same with washer jets from older passats, well as long as you get the same 'square type' fitment ones.
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Re:The crying car...
« Reply #9 on: 17 July 2004, 00:31 »
Heated??  :o

What for!!! Might be interested though  ;)
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