Just realised my windscreen washer bottle was on the dregs on my old mk1 estate I used to get a warning when it was getting low. I have the SEL 1.2 have they removed this little luxury or is it something that has to be turned on by the dealer Joe

my mk2 SE doesnt have this either.. dont think the Mk2 Elegance does either, but i might be wrong. 

 

There wont be a sensor in the bottle i wouldnt of thought. 

On the older cars I think you only got the low level sensor when the bigger washer bottle was fitted, normally with headlight washers.

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Is this not part of owners' routine maintenance checks? Open tye bonnet once a week and check fluid levels, make sure nothing odd has happened? You invested £000's in a car and can't give it 5 minutes per week attention? Washer fluid is a legal requirement.

Come on folks help yourselves, just a little.

Apologies for mini-rant.

Is this not part of owners' routine maintenance checks? Open tye bonnet once a week and check fluid levels, make sure nothing odd has happened? You invested £000's in a car and can't give it 5 minutes per week attention? Washer fluid is a legal requirement.

Come on folks help yourselves, just a little.

Apologies for mini-rant.

On my Octavia you can only see the very top of the washer bottle, once it's less than 90% full you can't see how much is in it.

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If you set off on a trip say in winter and you have a full washer bottle and are even carrying spare washer fluid already mixed 

you can get caught out during the trip before you ever need to fill up with fuel if you have had to use the washers lots.

You might be on a Motorway / Autobahn or areas rather far from Service Stations or even a supply of Washer Fluid in adverse weather.

 

Or you share a car and you just collect it and set off without opening the bonnet and topping up the Washer Fluid.

People should obviously check,  but often do not, and really now we are at Euro 6 Emission Cars and 

the 4th version of the Fabia with the 3rd Generation Fabia, 

so penny pinching on washer fluid low indications is pathetic from a European Manufacturer, especially one from a Manufacturer that 

designs cars in a Country that has Winters that might need the drivers getting through lots of Windscreen Wash.

I just fill mine every time I open the bonnet, especially at this time of year. I see no point in waiting till its low to fill up the screen wash, sometime I may only add 1/2 a litre but at least I know that I am starting the week with a full screen wash bottle.

LOL, start the week with a full bottle.

That will be a location location thing i thought you covered very high mileages, a Fabia Washer bottle can need filled daily depending on miles covered and roads driven.

Is this not part of owners' routine maintenance checks? Open tye bonnet once a week and check fluid levels, make sure nothing odd has happened? You invested £000's in a car and can't give it 5 minutes per week attention? Washer fluid is a legal requirement.

Come on folks help yourselves, just a little.

Apologies for mini-rant.

I appreciate your thoughts I was more bemoaning the little extras I had on the Mk1 1,9 elegance estate I had for 8 yrs. Low washer fluid level, one touch drivers window a full size spare wheel, cruise control switching off when you slow down through the gears. I have had the car since April so I have topped the washer bottle up several times but this is the first time it has run dry :(  Must try harder Joe  PS It takes ages to top up the oil down that little tube there must be an easier way

I appreciate your thoughts I was more bemoaning the little extras I had on the Mk1 1,9 elegance estate I had for 8 yrs. Low washer fluid level, one touch drivers window a full size spare wheel, cruise control switching off when you slow down through the gears. I have had the car since April so I have topped the washer bottle up several times but this is the first time it has run dry :(  Must try harder Joe  PS It takes ages to top up the oil down that little tube there must be an easier way

Think you need very thin oil to get it down the narrow tube.

MerrtbChristmss, Joe.

Think you need very thin oil to get it down the narrow tube.

MerrtbChristmss, Joe.

 

Not really an issue, use a "turkey baster" - oh no, someone else might need it right now, sorry, forget that!

 

Back on topic:- I had the "no warning" once on my Passat 4Motion, I was travelling from Kent to outside Edinburgh between Christmas and New Year, so had headlights on (HIDs) and at that time, the lights got washed if you held the windscreen washers on for more than a couple of seconds - ie as you might need on very dirty/wet/salty roads, had more fluid in the boot, but without warning ended up with a washer fluid so when the screen went white and dry, I needed to tailgate trucks to get some salty wet stuff on the windscreen to clear it again for a short time until we reached the next services. That was easy to sort out, that car was imported and NL markets don't need the warning enabled it seems!

Is this not part of owners' routine maintenance checks? Open tye bonnet once a week and check fluid levels, make sure nothing odd has happened? You invested £000's in a car and can't give it 5 minutes per week attention? Washer fluid is a legal requirement.

Come on folks help yourselves, just a little.

Apologies for mini-rant.

dunno mate. i think my mk2 fab has a bottomless pit of a tank if im perfectly honest. 

 

it never seems to run out