Having deduced that a pipe has popped off or split somewhere underneath (no wash and puddle underneath the car), I'm putting the car up on the ramps tomorrow to hunt down the problem.

So whereabouts under the car do the pipes run for the rear screen wash? I'm guessing down the N/S from the washer bottle to the rear?

TIA

Edited 23 January, 200917 yr by Jonny5ive

If you look in the engine bay on the bulk head you can see the connection where the pipe splits and goes to the rear wiper, it may have popped off the conecter. It's near the N/S wiper but on the bulk head

The hoses don't run underneath the car: use the search, damned noob!

http://briskoda.net/fabia-i/rear-washer-jet-issues-help/102244/#post1189096

My money's on the one behind the NSR seat back (no. 1 in the list)!

The hoses don't run underneath the car: use the search, damned noob!

I'll get my coat

http://briskoda.net/fabia-i/rear-washer-jet-issues-help/102244/#post1189096

My money's on the one behind the NSR seat back (no. 1 in the list)!

Pay up then!! :rolleyes: My interior is stripped and I have already followed the pipe from the tailgate to this join so that has narrowed the search to 3 more places.

before you stripped the interior did you think to use the wash wipe and first see if you can hear a noise(pump working) and secondly was there any fliud leaking onto the floor around by the engine bay?

Pay up then!! :rolleyes:

I'll gladly pay you my stake if you would be so kind as to email me your bank details so I can transfer the money from my deceased grandfather's account in Nigeria!

If there are no puddles under the car, and it's not the join behind the seat, then it's either inside the boot lid (try the washer and open the boot a couple of inches immediately you stop pumping, and you should get a trickle of wash water coming out of the drain hole in the middle and/or around the two rubber bumpers in each corner), or you have a blockage. AFAIK, it's a selection of valves that determine whether the front or back screen is washed (the pump itself just turns one way or the other), so assuming your front washers are OK, it could well be that. It might be worth trying to strip it down, but otherwise I presume a replacement washer bottle would come with the pump and all the valves already fitted???

I'll gladly pay you my stake if you would be so kind as to email me your bank details so I can transfer the money from my deceased grandfather's account in Nigeria!

If there are no puddles under the car,.............

I refer the honourable gentleman to my first post noob!!

The pipe near the bulkhead popped off on mine a couple of weeks ago...

I found on a search that if you undo the 2 screws holding the air filter housing in place and lift it out the way you can get your hands in a lot easier, its difficult to see the pipes when you've actually got hold of them so doing it by feel is needed (oo-er...)

Hope this helps...

before you stripped the interior did you think to use the wash wipe and first see if you can hear a noise(pump working) and secondly was there any fliud leaking onto the floor around by the engine bay?

I stripped the interior a while ago and not associated with the lack of rear wash

As the first post says, there is a puddle under the car

When mine left a puddle underneath the car, it was the bulkhead connector mention in this Service Bulletin. It can be reconnected without removing anything if you have - or know someone helpful with - very small hands.

Puddle underneath car by nearside front wheel? - It's popped off at the bottle or the diverter valve that send water to the front or rear is buggerred. Accessible from the nearside wheelarch after removing wheel and arch liner

As the first post says, there is a puddle under the car

Well, you could have given us a hand by phrasing 'no wash and puddle underneath the car' in your original post a little differently! Neither the staff nor the members of Briskoda can be held responsible for the epic syntacic fails of users posting on this forum! :lol:

A couple of 'there is'-es could have prevented all this confusion, and all that bandwidth I wasted following blind alleys you sent me down could have gone instead to help give some poor African orphan an education - I hope you've learned your lesson! :nono:

I'm glad I found this thread, I have come across a pool of water in the footwell behind the fns seat on a number of occasions and was wondering where the water came from, now I can fix it and get my rear screen wash working.

DGW's post of 23-01-2009, 12:27 is very useful and gives a very interesting insight into VAG think. My wife could not believe the wimpish approach to freezing problems in a central European country. I do not use the recommended concentration of the recommended screen wash fluid because it is far too strong and covers the windscreen in thick white foam, and may cause me to crash into things !!

Well ours is in the garage again as the rear washer is squirting water to the ground, really getting annoyed with the car the now second time it has been in the garage this week!

Could you not just check it yourself Davy ???

Bit costly putting it in for that.

Mine keeps popping off, i just live with it now.

mines has popped off, has been for months but i'm too lazy to source the point of problem and fix it

Stop using the rear wash when its freezing and it wont pop off, pretty simple really.

Could you not just check it yourself Davy ???

Bit costly putting it in for that.

Mine keeps popping off, i just live with it now.

Could have done but I was working and the fact that we are going away tomorrow I rather get a garage to look at it (we managed to say we were getting annoyed with the fact the car spends half it's time in the garage the work was carried out free of charge).

I've never had a car that spends winter with things going wrong with it and all the same sort of things.

Roll on summer

Hello to One and All,

2005 Fabia VRS 39,000miles.

My rear washer pipe popped off inside rear tailgate panel, and to pop-back-on, I had to remove tail-gate panel, oohh!! what a job.The holding clips were extremely difficult to dislodge and at times I thought I would rip/tear panel, and to replace panel on my own, was a nightmare.

A few days later I cut a hole in this panel to allow replacement of the pop-off pipe in the future, made a small plastic panel to cover hole, which is held on by two self-tappers. Invisible until tailgate opened and then not an obvious repair.

As to the recent popped-off (engine bay) rear washer pipe, when popped-back-on it leaked.!!!!

That was the last straw, now I was getting teasy !!

Cut each end off the pipes, removed original fittings, pushed end of tight-fit rubber hose over each end and secured with plastic tie, (ensured joins were in engine bay) in case of leakage later down the road, job done !!

Some will say what a chac job, I will have to agree, but if it works what the hell ???

Ian. 31/03/2009

Hello to One and All,

2005 Fabia VRS 39,000miles.

My rear washer pipe popped off inside rear tailgate panel, and to pop-back-on, I had to remove tail-gate panel, oohh!! what a job.The holding clips were extremely difficult to dislodge and at times I thought I would rip/tear panel, and to replace panel on my own, was a nightmare.

A few days later I cut a hole in this panel to allow replacement of the pop-off pipe in the future, made a small plastic panel to cover hole, which is held on by two self-tappers. Invisible until tailgate opened and then not an obvious repair.

As to the recent popped-off (engine bay) rear washer pipe, when popped-back-on it leaked.!!!!

That was the last straw, now I was getting teasy !!

Cut each end off the pipes, removed original fittings, pushed end of tight-fit rubber hose over each end and secured with plastic tie, (ensured joins were in engine bay) in case of leakage later down the road, job done !!

Some will say what a chac job, I will have to agree, but if it works what the hell ???

Ian. 31/03/2009

I think its designed to pop off so it doesn't damage the pump if there's a blockage. Was tempted to cable tie myself, but its much easier to just not use it when its frozen