aston50uk

All I know is that water was leaking from the rear screen washer into the boot lock. I subsequently had to have the rear wiper replaced for an extortionate amount of money. I think the water leaked through the wiper mechanism, causing it to fail.

Have you tried spraying with maintenance spray spray?

It has been an intermittent fault on my Octavia 3 since May, it was on constantly yesterday and I noticed water in the latch, so i dried it off as best i could and sprayed the latch with maintenance spray. The result was instant success!

It bottomed out on something and I just worked the wire up and down until I got water to flow and then operated the pump to flush it out. I have just had to remove the jet assembly again today though, after it blocked again, and found some crud in the head of the assembly behind the two jets. It really is a terrible set up. It is the same jet assembly on Audis, it would seem. I don’t know about VW.

At every attempt that I made to get to bottom of this issue with the local Skoda dealer, over five years, was there any sign that they understood the cause of the problem. Or perhaps they didn’t want to admit what it was.

I used piano wire, which is quite stiff, and after working this around inside the tube, it dislodged what was obvious corrosion, after which I got water flowing through the pipe. Obviously there should be no way anything should be subject to corrosion inside the mechanism that supplies water to the jets, it is ridiculous.

There is no need to do anything to any lining. The only things to remove are the cap covering the jet assembly and the jet assembly itself.

The tube feeds the jet assembly, so it is directly underneath the jet assembly.

My post above on the cause of the blockage in my car should, I think, have been put into the box below.

I have had this problem with my Octavia 3 since acquiring it in 2018. I have discovered that the blockage occurs in the tube supplying water to the jet nozzle assembly. It is cause by corrosion in the steel tube, I find it unbelievable that stainless steel has not been used. It will become blocked after a very short time.