Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time
and money and today what to do if your windscreen washer jets aren't working,
I'll take you through a few simple steps and hopefully it'll be a nice easy fix,
but before I take you through all the steps let's have a lovely cup of tea!
Now I've got a Volkswagen and to activate the washer jets you just pull this stalk towards you
and the washer jet should just spray out from underneath the body straight onto the windscreen
now the first thing to check is that your jet nozzles aren't blocked up and for this
you're going to need a needle so take out a needle just be very careful with this
then go out to your windscreen washer jet nozzles or mine they're underneath the bonnet but yours
could be on top of the bonnet so just locate where those are now in mine you've got two small holes
so just take your needle be very careful and just poke around in there you might have bits of dirt
in there bits of moss bits or debris from any water so just give that a really good clean you
and hopefully you might get out some debris that's been blocking up your jet nozzles
if not you can actually take it off and give it a blow see if you can blow out any debris if not you
may have to buy some new ones, and next now the prime suspect for these not working is because
it's the middle of winter and it's a freezing cold day now this is great fun if you're a puppy
Dalmatian it's great fun if you're a great big kid like me but it's not so good if you're driving
your car or your Van because your windscreen watcher jets can freeze up first thing you
need to do is try and find out if the pump motor is actually working for this you'll need to open
your bonnet and find the location of the screen wash bottle and normally the pump will be on the
same side probably underneath the wheel arch so get a glamorous assistant to squirt the stalk
and I can hear the pump working so it's not that that's at fault now if the pump is engaging like
this one it probably means that you've got frozen water in your screen wash reservoir and the first
thing you can try is fill up a jug with hot water don't make this boiling hot water because you
don't want to melt anything just make it nice and hot then open up your screen wash reservoir
and just pour in the hot water after we've done that we'll put in some screen wash and make sure
it's nice and concentrated whilst I'm doing this there's a link above now about how to check your
battery using a multimeter, now hopefully if you've got screen wash in there already it's
probably only a little bit frozen now I've got some concentrated screen wash here and as you
can see in the summer you only need 10% of this concentrated but in a severe winter you can use
actual concentrated screen wash neat but normally it's about 50%
so just make sure you've got plenty of this in your screen wash and there's a link above now
about how to disconnect a car battery safely, this will be a prime suspect in the middle of winter
where your screen wash actually freezes and if it does freeze and you activate the pump it can
blow the pump or it can blow the fuse on the pump, and we'll check that a bit later on in this video
now you can also check the nozzles obviously it depends what kind of car you've got try pouring
some warm or hot water on your nozzles and see if that clears them now this one has actually cleared
mine so that is fantastic but if you're activating the stalk for the windscreen washer jets and you
cannot hear the pump then the next thing to check before you go worrying about the actual pump
is check the fuse now depending on the model of your motor will depend on where the fuse box is
so try and locate the fuse for your windscreen washer pump if you don't know which one it is
and you don't want to pull out every single fuse to test them there's a link above now about how to
check fuses using a multimeter without having to pull them all out, so on this one the fuse
is actually blown so all you need to do is just replace this fuse and hopefully that will fix it,
if you haven't got a blown fuse the next thing to check is your actual windscreen washer pump
now on my particular vehicle it's down here on the left hand side on the passenger side underneath
the wheel arch this is the windscreen washer pump here now make sure that this isn't frozen
make sure that the pipe there is not split and make sure that it's plugged in correctly and that
the plugs aren't corroded if you're handy with a multimeter you can check the pump by pulling on
the stalk and making sure that it's got 12 volts to it when you engage it, if it hasn't then it's
time for a new windscreen washer pump if that is all working it could be that you've got a split
pipe somewhere now on my particular Volkswagen T5 the prime suspect is here because every time you
open the bonnet or the hood this pipe work bends and over time this gets brittle and the constant
amount of bending it actually eventually splits and if I activate the jet washers here you can
actually see it spraying out of the split there, the easiest way to fix this split hose is just to
cut it and then put a joiner pipe on there now if you've still got a problem with your windscreen
washer jets and your windscreen washers it could be a problem with a relay now some vehicles have a
relay unit for this and these will be in your fuse box and they will look like these relay units here
and the other thing that it could be obviously is it could be a fault with your actual
stalk unit or possibly a frayed wire or short circuit somewhere, hopefully running
through all of those steps has helped fix yours if not I hope you get it sorted soon.
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