Hello Guys and Girls welcome to my Volkswagen T5 tips and tricks and
today the windscreen washer jet nozzles. How to remove them, clean them or just
replace them it's all the same thing really. So first of all let's get inside
the Van and what have we got waiting? Oh a lovely cup of tea don't do any work on
the Van without having a lovely cup of tea. Oh feel better already.
Okay so let's give them a squirt okay so the one on the right is not too bad the
one on the left is very poor, probably blocked up with gunk. I mean shouldn't
get to gunky as you've got a little filter where you fill up the reservoir.
Anyway let's get the bonnet open, and the the nozzles are actually built into the
bonnet so there's the driver's side one and there is the passenger side one and
what you've got is you can actually adjust them so they move up and down so
you can adjust them for the windscreen, make them higher
or lower mine are not particularly good I mean I've tried adjusting them already
and the squirting is not great so I think the holes are blocked I mean it
could be I need to actually replace them but I'm just going to give them a bit of
a clean first take them off give them a bit of a clean. Now what you need to do
here is pull backwards away and then after that then pull down and it should
just release quite easily then you can just pull it down there we go and that
is the unit hanging down so you can see there it's all a bit butchered that hole
there. Right let's get the other one off on the driver's side again pull back and pull
down and just needs to have a bit of a good clean in there. Now what you can do
to start with before you actually take it all off just get a
just a small pin or a needle or something and just push that in and just
give that a wiggle around in case you got any bits of dirt in there, just to
try and clean the Airways. Do that on the other side as well if not then you
can actually remove the unit all together and you know the ideal thing is
to get an air compressor on it to blow through it so that's the nozzle there.
So this is the bit that we're interested in this little white cap here connection
joint. Very very simple to remove but what I would recommend first is just lay
a sheet out over your engine bay and tuck it under the windscreen wipers
because you know what will happen, something will fall off you'll drop
something you drop a screwdriver and it will fall down into the engine bay and
you'll lose it. So what you've got is you've got these little black clips and
they literally just slide away, you can do with a small screwdriver or you can
just probably do it with your fingers which I'm going to do here so just
gently slide that clip away from itself, sorry I'm slightly blocking the camera
there but there we go it just slides away and once you've done that that
releases the pressure and it should just pull out and pull down and there we go
That is the actual unit you can buy these units as a pair from your
Volkswagen dealer I mean I've seen them on eBay you can get a pair of those if
all else fails you can just buy a new pair so just have a quick look up in
there make sure there's no dirt give it a
shake so let's give that a quick inspection give it a quick blow. (Don't inhale, it's not a new Vaping device!).
First thing to do give it a blow I mean this one doesn't seem too bad.
So we've got both of them off now. I'm just gonna take them into the garage
and I haven't actually got an air compressor as I don't use it that
much. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to just get a bicycle pump on them.
I mean what you could do is you could run them under the cold mains tap which
has got quite a lot of pressure and just you know hold that really tight around
the tap get some water flowing through it but I'm just gonna put it on an old this
is not a bicycle pump this is a football pump actually, not ideal but does the job
so just get some air blowing through there and it's not blocked this one
probably the airways are a bit too open which is why it's not squirting out
properly. So those 2 are all cleaned up now.
So we'll get those connected back in and all it is is a question of just
pushing it back up into that slot and
then just slide the clip back across there you go easy. Let's do that on the
other side, again just push it up in there gently as far as it'll go and then
just slide the clip across and that is it and it's very tight indeed. All right
now let's click them back into the bonnet. There is only one way you can
clip them back in so again just kind of slide it up into itself once it's slid
in backwards as far as it will go then just gently push it into the bonnet and it
should just clip in. There we go and do the same on the passenger side.
There we go I'm going to adjust these about halfway and then we need to test it out
so let's get rid of the get rid of the sheet and let's close the bonnet up and
get inside the Van, give it a squirt. Don't need to start the engine just need the
ignition on and on the VW T5 you pull it towards you. Okay so the driver's side is
a bit high and the passenger side is a bit low really. Okay I've just adjusted
them outside and that's a bit better on the passenger side the driver's side
still a bit high so let's just give those one more adjustment you don't need
to open the bonnet to adjust and you can just reach across and lift those levers
up and down the adjustments. This is the final adjustment I've just made again
and I think that's about as good as I'm going to get it as I don't think
they are great these nozzles I've got so that is the end thanks for watching as I
say if if they're not great you can just buy a new pair and just fit them very
easily. So thanks for watching Guys and Girls.
Cheers.