Can anyone tell me if it is possible to visibly check how much screenwash you have in the resevoir in the Punto or if you just need to guess? Also any idea how much the resevoir holds?

MattHarris19872016 said:

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to visibly check how much screenwash you have in the resevoir in the Punto or if you just need to guess? Also any idea how much the resevoir holds?

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yes, it's clear plastic,
around 5 years of driving:worship:

varesecrazy said:

yes, it's clear plastic,
around 5 years of driving:worship:

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Hi thanks for your reply. So is the tank the cylinder you pour into or below the blue plug which kind of floats around, or is the tank below the cylinder you pour into? Hope that is clear and excuse my stupidity

I would term that the 'filler neck'..
Complete with cap..and filter.

The tank is large rectangular 'box'
Monted below..
If you crouch in front of the headlight thatvside you can probably see yhe tank.. coloured by the washer fluid.

Photo from wheelarch..liner removed.

Showing tank reservoir..and the electrical fluid pump

Pic

Just fill it until it's brimmed, unlike other fluids on the car, there is no 'max' and you won't do any harm.

5 years? I'm lucky if I manage 5 weeks!

Am I imagining another of "those" threads....

jimboy said:

Am I imagining another of "those" threads....

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I suspect so, start with a question everyone could easily answer, is covered in the hand book for the car, or that anyone could easily work out, just to get an initial rise, then continue to ask more and more equally pointless questions just to keep it going.

In this case I’m not sure if varesecrazy knows this guys MO and was genuinely trying to be helpful.

In any case, as being able to identify the washer reservoir and how to check the level is part of the driving test now, and has been for some time, you would hope anyone with a driving licence would know the answer to this question [emoji6]

Yes. I really don't want to burst anyone's bubble, I suspect there are underlying factors going on here.

Steve145 said:

5 years? I'm lucky if I manage 5 weeks!

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I tend to drive on roads with little traffic,
so don't get "filled-in" and need to wash screen every 3 minutes

I tend to use my wipers when the rain forces me to.. therefore no fluid is required.
( possibly related to 30 years of motorcycling where you just slightly turn your head to let the draught clear your vision)



a colleague does a 60 mile each way commute.. in VAG products, has an empty reservoir almost every round trip :bang: when there is damp on the roads

the punto tank looks pretty big, as does the 2004 panda,
apparently the VAG ones are on the smaller size.

AndyRKett said:

I suspect so, start with a question everyone could easily answer, is covered in the hand book for the car, or that anyone could easily work out, just to get an initial rise, then continue to ask more and more equally pointless questions just to keep it going.

In this case I’m not sure if varesecrazy knows this guys MO and was genuinely trying to be helpful.

In any case, as being able to identify the washer reservoir and how to check the level is part of the driving test now, and has been for some time, you would hope anyone with a driving licence would know the answer to this question [emoji6]

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Or maybe Andy (and to try to read this this time) he realises that these are points I am ignorant in and is trying to be helpful as opposed to the absolutely ludicrous conclusion you have jumped too that I have an ulterior motive. I wouldn’t bother replying Andy as I’m not going to read any more of your nonscencial posts and judging by the lack of others commenting or agreeing nobody else is reading them either.

MattHarris19872016 said:

Or maybe Andy (and to try to read this this time) he realises that these are points I am ignorant in and is trying to be helpful as opposed to the absolutely ludicrous conclusion you have jumped too that I have an ulterior motive. I wouldn’t bother replying Andy as I’m not going to read any more of your nonscencial posts and judging by the lack of others commenting or agreeing nobody else is reading them either.

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You like to plead ignorance, but, If you had read my response then you would see, the question you asked is something that you should know, in order to undertake a standard UK driving test. and the capacity of the fluid reservoir is in the car handbook which going by your previous posts you seem to maybe have? in any case If not you can download one from this forum.

As for nonsensical, well if you read my post, you'd see it was in reply to someone else who could already see where you were going with yet another pointless thread.

As I stated you should know this stuff in order to take a driving test in the UK.

I also like how you direct your responses at me, despite others are commenting on your posts and behaviour.... Just choosing to ignore those are you?

AndyRKett said:

You like to plead ignorance, but, If you had read my response then you would see, the question you asked is something that you should know, in order to undertake a standard UK driving test. and the capacity of the fluid reservoir is in the car handbook which going by your previous posts you seem to maybe have? in any case If not you can download one from this forum.

As for nonsensical, well if you read my post, you'd see it was in reply to someone else who could already see where you were going with yet another pointless thread.

As I stated you should know this stuff in order to take a driving test in the UK.

I also like how you direct your responses at me, despite others are commenting on your posts and behaviour.... Just choosing to ignore those are you?

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At driving test level you are taught how to locate a windscreen bottle and to top it up, you are not taught how to identify where the tank is for checking every model of car so I’m not really sure why this statement is relevant? Also the question about windscreen bottles in the ‘Show me tell me’ part of a driving test has now been removed

MattHarris19872016 said:

At driving test level you are taught how to locate a windscreen bottle and to top it up, you are not taught how to identify where the tank is for checking every model of car so I’m not really sure why this statement is relevant? Also the question about windscreen bottles in the ‘Show me tell me’ part of a driving test has now been removed

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I'm confused
Locating where you fill the wash bottle up from is exactly the same as locating the tank
You filling point is the tank
You can fill it up via something that isn't connected to the tank

Anyway you don't need to know how full the tank is
Just fill it until in reaches th filling tank

MattHarris19872016 said:

At driving test level you are taught how to locate a windscreen bottle and to top it up, you are not taught how to identify where the tank is for checking every model of car so I’m not really sure why this statement is relevant? Also the question about windscreen bottles in the ‘Show me tell me’ part of a driving test has now been removed

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The tank is part of where you fill it up as you well know, also the washer fluid question has only very very recently been removed from the test, but hey! Check you! not so ignorant when it suits you!!

Just to point out, in case you had forgotten, you have already asked this question about the washer fluid in the past and had pretty much the same answers then, see here ---> https://www.fiatforum.com/punto-v/441382-winscreen-fluid.html

perhaps before repetitively asking the same questions you should check to see that you haven't asked it before.

chris3234 said:

I'm confused

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Don't be, it's his own unique way of spamming the forum, he's asked this as well as many other questions repetitively before, then plays dumb to keep people replying

AndyRKett said:

Don't be, it's his own unique way of spamming the forum, he's asked this as well as many other questions repetitively before, then plays dumb to keep people replying

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Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. You are spamming by deliberately going out of your way to cause offence.

MattHarris19872016 said:

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. You are spamming by deliberately going out of your way to cause offence.

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This forum is about the best I've found, and have had cause to look at Ford, Toyota, Land Rover and VW recently, mostly without any success at all. There is a core of people on here that do their best to help everyone, but sadly that occasionally bites back, for various reasons. Having sincere help criticised or thrown back at one, without justification or cause, hurts, and unsurprisingly gets those contributors annoyed.

Many questions can seem simple, and surprising to be asked, but even those are generally met with genuine help. However, when the same question is asked repeatedly, or good correct answers argued against, often without any facts to back up any alternative view, contributors will get upset.

You Matt are not the first to appear to follow this path, and sadly will not be the last, but it would be more helpful for the long-term helpfulness of this forum if once a question is asked, a nice 'thank you' comes, instead of an unreasoned argument.

Your title suggests that you might be 29 years old, yet the questions and particularly the follow-ups seem out of sorts with this.

If you want/need genuine advice, please ask. But try not to perpetuate a thread for no apparent progress. Or answers will cease.

You just couldn't make this up!!!! I foresee another Hitler comment later...