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Title: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: otto-mate on December 11, 2010, 05:00:54 pm: Hi All

Washers are dead - anyone know which fuse to look at off hand? Anything else I should be checking?

Thanks

M.
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: edd666999 on December 11, 2010, 05:03:29 pm: does it make the noise or nothing?
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: otto-mate on December 11, 2010, 07:08:33 pm: No, no noise at all :-/

Thanks

M.
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: jacko78 on December 12, 2010, 01:19:01 pm: Is the bonnet shut correctly
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: seiko on December 12, 2010, 03:11:47 pm: have you checked the fuse ?
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: Aaron_RJ on December 12, 2010, 07:13:44 pm: They have a thermal cut out if washers freeze up etc which blows fuse can't remember number but is in dash panel both
Row 20a (yellow fuse) will check no in morning
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: otto-mate on December 12, 2010, 08:05:54 pm: Quote from: jacko78 on December 12, 2010, 01:19:01 pm
Is the bonnet shut correctly

Yup.

M.
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: otto-mate on December 12, 2010, 08:06:12 pm: Quote from: Aaron_RJ on December 12, 2010, 07:13:44 pm
They have a thermal cut out if washers freeze up etc which blows fuse can't remember number but is in dash panel both
Row 20a (yellow fuse) will check no in morning

Thanks.

M.
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: otto-mate on December 14, 2010, 08:08:00 pm: You get a chance to look yet Aaron?

Thanks

M.
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: Aaron_RJ on December 14, 2010, 08:39:49 pm: sorry mate will go now
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: Aaron_RJ on December 14, 2010, 08:43:26 pm: fuse 36 (20a) in dash fusebox hth

Aaron
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: otto-mate on January 03, 2011, 10:24:14 am: Aaron - many thanks for that info (sorry for late reply). Bad snow over here over Xmas and Mrs hardly took the car out. I drove it yesterday and as soon as it drove out of the garage the washers were working! Total mystery.

Happy New Year to all.

M.
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: Top Cat on January 03, 2011, 09:38:25 pm: Quote from: otto-mate on January 03, 2011, 10:24:14 am
Aaron - many thanks for that info (sorry for late reply). Bad snow over here over Xmas and Mrs hardly took the car out. I drove it yesterday and as soon as it drove out of the garage the washers were working! Total mystery.

Happy New Year to all.

M.

It's no mystery, almost every car in the country has suffered the same. :laugh:
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: wycombe_gti on January 04, 2011, 01:06:59 pm: Quote from: Top Cat on January 03, 2011, 09:38:25 pm
It's no mystery, almost every car in the country has suffered the same. :laugh:

Yup. My rear wiper stopped working last week. Didn't work for 3 days. Took the fuse out for a few seconds, put it back in again and it now works fine, :-)
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: big al on January 04, 2011, 01:23:11 pm: Anyone know which fuse I should be checking as my headlight washers do not, nor have ever worked, the small part does not come out of the bumper?
Title: Re: Windscreen Washers Dead
Post by: Kings on January 04, 2011, 02:22:35 pm: Quote from: big al on January 04, 2011, 01:23:11 pm
Anyone know which fuse I should be checking as my headlight washers do not, nor have ever worked, the small part does not come out of the bumper?

The same thing has happened to my car over the recent cold snap, windscreen washers were working fine but the headlight washers were not. Checked Fuse 36 and it had blown, changed it and the headlight washers now work perfectly.