Heated washer jets????

[1animal1]

My buggers wouldnt work in the -4.5 temps i was getting this morning, all week they have been fine....no water pouring under the car when i travelled the full 10 miles to work.....reckon they must be frozen pretty much frozen through

 

[vanilla_ice]

How about a stronger dilution of screen wash?

 

[fingermouse]

hes too tight for that

 

[1animal1]

haha you tail

erm well only just filled it up and used a third of a 5 litre tub....alls fine now though, just been out to check before the trip home

 

[voorhees]

I'm leaking all over the floor from inside my bumper so I reckon I'll have to get the bumper off

 

[MintyS3]

Mine freeze every year without fail. I dont think the heated washers do much tbh.

 

[alijames]

Heh! Mine froze for ~40 miles this morning travelling up the the Lake District. Also, one of the headlamp washers was still stuck up for around 2 hours after I had stopped!! Gradually came down later on...

No probs in the snow with the Quattro though...

Cheers,

 

[MintyS3]

Heh! Mine froze for ~40 miles this morning travelling up the the Lake District. Also, one of the headlamp washers was still stuck up for around 2 hours after I had stopped!! Gradually came down later on...

No probs in the snow with the Quattro though...

Cheers,

Yeh headlight washers stick out in freezing temps too. All a little annoying.

 

[1animal1]

this is the first time its hapend to me thankfully.....defo notice the heated jets after living with my old A3

 

[The Doctor]

Yeh headlight washers stick out in freezing temps too. All a little annoying.

Yep, happened to me this week too. Looked ****** ridiculous when I arrived at work with them stuck out on stalks. Pain in the ****.

 

[Nilz]

My headlight washers didnt even come out, but then I saw that a fuse had gone, probably burnt it out trying to get them to work in the freezing weather!!

 

[1animal1]

you'd think they would be designed to withstand being frozen, not everyone drives around with 100% dilution of washer fluid

 

[Essflee]

you'd think they would be designed to withstand being frozen, not everyone drives around with 100% dilution of washer fluid

Me being one of them, haven't got round to buying any.

Bad move, I drove my usual 12 mile journey this morning and my jets still weren't working, windscreen was filthy...

 

[Ian W]

Just added a nice dilution of screen wash to mine, so far so good,

 

[MintyS3]

you'd think they would be designed to withstand being frozen, not everyone drives around with 100% dilution of washer fluid

Probably needed sometimes. I Remember on an old car that I left outside overnight was a block of ice, everything was frozen including the 1/3 diluted screen wash. Inside of the car, engine....you name it.

Not sure what temp that was but I think must of been below -10.

 

[s3 ryan]

do all s3's have heated headlight washers? what do you press to get them working?

 

[1animal1]

lights on....pull ya windscreen washers on and the headlight one will start after 3-4 seconds of holding the stalk back

 

[s3 ryan]

awesome! had the car nearly a year and didnt know about them lol thanks :thumbsup: