MotardMan
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- Your Mercedes
- 1995 E320T, S124, W124, Sportline
Morning all!
I got the car home last night and found the windscreen washers were not squirting......
It turns out that the washer bottle was full of blue crystalline/gel like gunk. It was lamost like the blue dye in the fluid had come out of solution, meaning that the nozzles had blocked in the bonnet and the headlamp washer system.....
I removed the bonnet nozzles and soaked them in hot water, then connected a push bike tyre pump to them and pumped away. Eventually they clearwed enough to let water squirt, though they kept reblocking as the coagulated gink moved through the nozzle. Persistent poking with a fine wire dislodged the stuff and now they work brilliantly!
The aim was way off though, not sure how the car passed an MOT in Feb with the nozzles blocked though.... It failed on the steering damper, which was replaced but the washer system cannot have been tested.... I could not re-aim them as the nozzles has seized in the plastic housing. I'll soak them in WD-40 and hope that this allows me to re-aim them some more.
Best,
Jim
I got the car home last night and found the windscreen washers were not squirting......
It turns out that the washer bottle was full of blue crystalline/gel like gunk. It was lamost like the blue dye in the fluid had come out of solution, meaning that the nozzles had blocked in the bonnet and the headlamp washer system.....
I removed the bonnet nozzles and soaked them in hot water, then connected a push bike tyre pump to them and pumped away. Eventually they clearwed enough to let water squirt, though they kept reblocking as the coagulated gink moved through the nozzle. Persistent poking with a fine wire dislodged the stuff and now they work brilliantly!
The aim was way off though, not sure how the car passed an MOT in Feb with the nozzles blocked though.... It failed on the steering damper, which was replaced but the washer system cannot have been tested.... I could not re-aim them as the nozzles has seized in the plastic housing. I'll soak them in WD-40 and hope that this allows me to re-aim them some more.
Best,
Jim
