Folks -

 

Anyone got any good ideas for unblocking the windscreen washers? Mine have slowly clogged up. I made sure the pump was working (the pipes all the way up to the washers themselves are definitely clear - as demonstrated by squirting water over my crotch!), then went about it myself with limited success.

 

Basically I started with the trusty safety-pin down the nozzles trick. Seemed pretty clear straight away but didn't help with the squirting. Then I got a football pump to the underside of the nozzles and did a few good blasts through it - definitely felt blocked and I found there was blue powder (washer fluid I guess), coming out of the nozzles. This opened the nozzles up a bit but over a week or so they've blocked up again. Waaaaa!

 

Any sneaky tricks for sorting this problem?

 

Russ.

 

 

P.S. "nozzle", mmm that's a nice word. :D

I use an airline, but if you're blasting the stuff back down the pipe then eventually it'll come back to the top and block again. Trick would be to disconnect the pipes under the bonnet then the sh1te gets blown out completely I'd guess.

Cheers Andy -

 

Yeah I was blasting the stuff up and out of the nozzles from underneath. Do you reckon I should just keep at it like that then?

 

Russ.

I'd do it from the top down, so to speak. Can't push a camel through the eye of a needle etc (unless it's camel vindaloo of course!) ;)

Mr Muscle? It works on sink plugs... ;)

heh, I did think about that sort of stuff but I'm more than a little nervous about the paintwork!

Buy some new nozzles?!

They cant be much even from Nissan.

Originally posted by russtic

heh, I did think about that sort of stuff but I'm more than a little nervous about the paintwork!

 

Good point - dont really wanna squirt it all over the windscreen :eek:

It is possible to disconnect the nozzles from off the bonnet and take the pipes off - then you can do what you like with them - they just have plastic clips on the underside of them to hold them down on the bonnet.

Pull the hose off the back, and blow back through them. In other words, from the bonnet side. As has been said, if the sh1t won't come out through the nozzle with washer fluid, then why should it come out with a blast of air? Blow the nozzles backwards, only way ;)

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

OK - thanks folks! I'll see how I get on over the weekend. I'll begin by blowing from the bonnet side down (with the hoses off). If that fails I'll look into taking 'em off.

 

Again - cheers for the info and advice.

Russ.