Adjusting windscreen washers

by **tangcla** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:08 pm

How does one adjust the windscreen washer nozzles? I find that the bottom right corner doesn't get wet with the spray...

by **Kagetsu** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:31 pm

Chances are they'll be a hex pattern. Fine a socket of the right size, slot over and twist very, very gently.

If they're inset into a unit, then using a jewelers screwdriver, do the same.

by **overl0ad** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:32 pm

hire a little gnome to sit on top of the roof with a watering can...

=p

sorry, i'm bored at work.

by **Arith** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:13 pm

overl0ad wrote:hire a little gnome to sit on top of the roof with a watering can...

Actually you're better off with small Thai children. It's less messy with the insurance when they accidentally fall off during a hard corner.

Have you checked the nozzle itself, Tangcla? I find that after a while and many waxes and polishes later the nozzle tends to get covered with wax or polish paste or just gets clogged with dirt. Try a bit of general cleaner on it and see if it improves.

by **WhiteGTB** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:35 pm

Yup, clogs sometimes, remove it and get an air blower and blow the crap out of it. Good as new!

by **tangcla** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:03 pm

Fairly sure it's not clogged, but good point, will check it when I remember

by **Arith** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:30 pm

Actually I was thinking you might want to check for crimps in the washer hose to that side? Perhaps you didn't install the Zero Sports Cool Action properly and it snagged one of the hoses? :tongue:

by **XRC15T** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:32 pm

Adjust it 45 degrees... and spray when the guy in blue approaches your window........

by **Arith** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:30 pm

Speaking of spraying, it annoys the living crap out of me when I'm behind a car on the freeway and they shoot their washers. I think a mere 20% of the fluid actually reaches their windscreen, and the remaining 80% shoots up into the heavens and peppers my bonnet and front windscreen with their overspray. Arg! :angry2:

by **XRC15T** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:55 am

Arith wrote:Speaking of spraying, it annoys the living crap out of me when I'm behind a car on the freeway and they shoot their washers. I think a mere 20% of the fluid actually reaches their windscreen, and the remaining 80% shoots up into the heavens and peppers my bonnet and front windscreen with their overspray. Arg!

hehehe you shoulda stayed quiet...depending how clean my car is, and the person behind me, i do that a lot just to shiet people, see you @ cruise time......... :lol:

by **tangcla** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:03 am

Arith wrote:Actually I was thinking you might want to check for crimps in the washer hose to that side? Perhaps you didn't install the Zero Sports Cool Action properly and it snagged one of the hoses?

Haha no... definitely sure that the problem was there prior to the Cool-Action II

it's not that it doesn't spray - it just seems to be aligned wrongly...

by **Kagetsu** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:43 am

The headlight washers give me the shits. I want them to be turned off-able.

by **Arith** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:43 pm

XRC15T wrote:hehehe you shoulda stayed quiet...depending how clean my car is, and the person behind me, i do that a lot just to shiet people, see you @ cruise time.........

Haha. That's okay. I keep a a brick in my glove box now so when I do encounter such people I just chuck a brick through their rear window. :comando:

by **Dan@dmsdetailing** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:27 pm

I find a toothpick works well. or a small screwdriver. To stop polish residue entering them mask them up, as you should do with all rubbers and plastics when polishing

by **tangcla** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:44 pm

I played with it, can't adjust it (it seems like it's a fixed unit) and it's not clogged.

Adjusting windscreen washers

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