Hi there,

I have a 2012 Fiat Punto and found that the windscreen sprayers aim against the wipers.
I have asked my garagist about this and he claims it is by design and that he cannot solve it for me.
With my previous car (Peugeot 206), I could correct the nozzles with a thin needle and solve the issue. But not with this Punto...

Anyone having the same issue? Any known solutions?

Is there not a flat head screw driver adjuster on the side of the sprayers?

Same problem... I have tried to fix it for one Grande Punto, without a great success.

Steady they worked a little bit better, but when you drive, with the air flow, jets are always too low.

I bought a Punto 2012 too, asked my garage to fixe them. They are quite perfect steady state, good until 30km/h, usable until 50 km/h, but faster it is hard to wash the windshield.

Unfortunatly, no adjusting screw. The washers are mist type, in plastic, without any possibility to adjust. And they are fixed in the plastic part of the bonnet, which do not add precision to spray at the right place...

The thing that make me angry, is Fiat make this car with unusable washers since... 2005 ! And 7 years after, you buy a car with.. the same universal problem. Red card.

Interested if you have a solution. But for me, I have all tried; no way to really fix this.

The only thing you can do is slightly melt away a little bit of the plastic above the actual nozzle hole to make the hole bigger and therefore more able to spray higher, other than that, maybe bonnet spacers?

Mmmm, no encouraging posts...
Anyway, thanks for sharing!

scoop987 said:

The only thing you can do is slightly melt away a little bit of the plastic above the actual nozzle hole to make the hole bigger and therefore more able to spray higher, other than that, maybe bonnet spacers?

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I doubt that'll work, a bigger hole will just cause it to dribble out rather than spray out under pressure I'd have thought.

if you search the grande punto section its been done to death... Official mod is a bit of sticky black rubber under the plastic trim to raise the jets if under warranty it should be done foc and takes 10mins assuming its not already been done as my evo has the mod from new

BasHopman said:

Mmmm, no encouraging posts...
Anyway, thanks for sharing!

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Indeed

They dont work by design, so it is hard to do something... The real solution "could be" install other mistjet in plastic trim. But I don't want to do a major modification like this.

As Andy say, official modification is sticky rubber under the plastic trim to raise it. My garage has done this (but with special glue they said, works better) and is an improvement (as said before, but not a washing system of this name)

lol special glue..... Its not going to move once trapped by the trim

Andy Monty said:

...Official mod is a bit of sticky black rubber under the plastic trim to raise the jets if under warranty it should be done foc and takes 10mins assuming its not already been done as my evo has the mod from new

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As my car dealer already said they couldn't help it, putting something under the trim is what it will be...

As was said earlier, it's a real shame that already with the Grande Punto this issue is there and it hasn't been fixed until now... Makes me think how they test their cars...

Andy Monty said:

lol special glue..... Its not going to move once trapped by the trim

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He said to me he had better results with glue than with the official moding stickers

"Special" in the way it is very fast to dry, and it can adjust precisely the nozzle in the trim

I believe it because it result was better than I have done on an GP.

Odd. Is this a 'bad batch' thing ? I had an early 2006 GP until September, and I found the windscreen washers worked fine, not brilliant, but well enough.

I now have a 2012 Punto GBT, purchased in September, but manufactured in March, of this year - the windscreen washers are excellent on it, both front and rear. They spray much wider, and seemingly with higher pressure and do a great job of washing the window - even at speed.

The rear washer is also much improved... on the GP, it was difficult to properly clear the rear window... now it just takes a short skoosh, and it's done

The trim that covers my 2012 front washers seems to be split into 2 parts - something I never noticed on the GP, I wonder if this is new, but somehow it's not made it's way onto all new cars ?

Chris.

Mkala said:

He said to me he had better results with glue than with the official moding stickers

"Special" in the way it is very fast to dry, and it can adjust precisely the nozzle in the trim

I believe it because it result was better than I have done on an GP.

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something tells me the garage has a hot melt glue gun