RedSooty

Looks like these motors fail with monotonous regularity between 5 and 7 years old (typical VW quality these days tbh). My son's failed recently 67 plate - leaking water in to his boot and making the contacts think the hatch was open. Mine has just gone haywire today (18 plate) spraying water all over the place - except the rear screen. Not fiddled yet but the sleeve and nozzle have that brittle old plastic and rusty metal look, so I just know the innards are very likely to crumble if I try to adjust the spray pattern.... but will give it a go for a laugh. So based on the short lifespan (The oem Valeo unit is French and still commands a crazy main dealer price) I am going to order a Chinese Amazon / Ebay special regardless of how my fiddling turns out. If it lasts more than a couple of years it still works out cheaper. Since all new cars (regardless who makes them) use a lowest common denominator component set, after nearly 30 years of Skoda loyalty I am actually considering a Dacia when I next change. They look and feel where the Felicia Estate GLiD was when I jumped from being a Ford man to Skoda in the mid 90's (ie cheap reasonably well screwed together transport). The Jogger and new Duster look like phenomenal value....like the Felica was in the day (The combination of a genuinely low price, reliability and practicality whilst being a decent drive makes that car my favourite vehicle of all time..... taking over the same mantle from Ford in the 70's