Hi giys
My rear washer jet does not work. The motor runs ok as I have switched over the pipe connections to the front wash to confirm this.
I have poked a needle in the jet but nothing comes out not even a dribble.
I see the hose pipe enters the roof lining and then I guess heads towards the engine bay.
Any ideas how to sort this out, is it a common fault.
btw it has never worked since I have had the car over 3 years.
Thanks
Pete

It may be bloked in the actual washer jet. I think it is the same one as the Sei. Pull it hard enough and the top comes off, clear the gunk out and click it back on. I found mind did this when I whacked it too hard with a sponge when cleaning my car. hehe

Non Return Valve

Hi Peterg,


A Porter at work had the same thing on his 94 1.1 IE. It turned out to be the inline non return valve . It’s just after the electric pump near the wash bottle. I unblocked it and works ok now.

Can you hear the pump wising when you engage it – if so it will prob. be this little black piece of plastic…

Hope this helps.

PS don’t snap the jet at the back – they are stubborn; if you try and remove the pipe it easily snaps, and is mounted directly onto glass.

The pipe sometimes gets blocked, or may even be crimped somewhere. The pipe goes into the roof lining down to the front of the car, and down to the passenger footwell behind the thick flooring. It goes through a gromet and into the engine bay to the washer bottle.

Where the pipe goes through the body it sometimes gets a kink - mine did and eventually broke. so all the time i kept trying to feed the water through it emptied the water into my passenger side footwell :bang:

In the end, cut the pipe and saw it wasnt blocked from the front to the back, and noticed the suspect piece of pipe further forward. So replaced the pipe from the washer bottle to where i had cut the pipe, joined it using some copper pipe and sealant (only had instant gasket at the time but did the job well ). Now they work fine.

Sometimes the nozzle at the back needs a pin through it to unblock it. But more annoyingly mine leaks all the time

Thanks for all your advice guys, I am sure I will sort it out now.
Luke very impressed with your fix using copper pipe as I am a plumber by trade.
What size pipe did u use? was it microbore.
Pete
ps got a new pair of stuts for £60

or just go to a garage n get them to blow air through the pips job done. the pipes also break easy like mine did.

Burst Rear washer jet

deaduno said:

or just go to a garage n get them to blow air through the pips job done. the pipes also break easy like mine did.

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Maybe worth trying foot pump pressure first?

I reckon you’d need to blow in the same direction as the non return valve, (from electric pump end) which would force the blockage through the jet? Perhaps why the pipe burst ah Spam0r

Regards All,

Peterg said:

Thanks for all your advice guys, I am sure I will sort it out now.
Luke very impressed with your fix using copper pipe as I am a plumber by trade.
What size pipe did u use? was it microbore.
Pete
ps got a new pair of stuts for £60

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Havent a clue, it was a bit of copper pipe that was lying around in my garage Took a bit of gentle persuasion (pliers, and heat ) to get the pipe into the tubes tho.

Ok I have taken off the non return valve and physically blown into {i have a big chest lol} I could blow into it with some resistance.
Blew into the non return valve and checked it was working ok.
Put everything back on and found the bloody non return valve started leaking from the top of the valve, as it is a sealed unit cant do much with it.
So ended up reversing it for the time being to prevent loss of all my fluid.
All of this of course in Artic conditions with a few penguins looking into the engine bay for company.
I guess I need a new valve or just bypass it with a coupling.
Cold Pete