Hiya everyone, 

 

I may be in the minority but I find the headlight wash system a little bit pointless as the lights don't have wipers on them and 99‰ of the time there is actually not needed to clean loose mud from them. 

 

They do make a mess over spray on the bonnet. When in the dead of winter and using a more concentrated washer fluid mix cannot be good for the paint either. 

 

So after cleaning the family wagon yesterday I whipped out the handbook which indicated fuse 36 was the washer system. 

 

I pulled the fuse and this morning I sprayed my windscreen and the blooming things still worked. 

 

Not sure what i had unplugged. 

 

Just for reference it's from the fuse box located at the driver side of the dashboard behind the blanking panel that is covered when the door shuts. 

 

Just got home, double checked I hadn't been a fool but replaced the fuse I removed as a pre-caution. 

 

What am I doing wrong?. 

 

Does seem silly they fire every 5th go..... I would like the choice at least. 

 

Any ideas..??

I'd imagine this is something that could be tuned with VCDS.

 

On My 230 Octavia Vrs I've had the washers doctored with a VCDS for the lights only to be washed if you pull and hold the wiper stalk for 2 seconds or more ( Lights on ) and once washed, it will not wash again until the 10th wash. ( think it's 10, might be 5  )

 

I've saved boat loads of screen wash 

 

 

If you switch to sidelights while using screenwash the headlight jets dont operate

Washer fluid is not that expensive. Usually I pick up several 5L canisters at a supermarket at once. I'm currently averaging around 1500 miles a month and fill up washer fluid no more than once a month.

Edited 3 April, 20179 yr by TLV

5 hours ago, Zenbasses said:

Hiya everyone, 

 

I may be in the minority but I find the headlight wash system a little bit pointless ... 99‰ of the time there is actually not needed to clean loose mud from them. 

 

 

 

 

I agree entirely, I turned mine off.

 

You go into central electronics in VCDS and un-tick 'headlight washers installed'.

 

Depending on where you are it might affect your MOT results.  We don't have those sort of tests here in Victoria 'Straya (although I wish we did).

 

In my previous car (a MKV Jetta) it wouldn't wash the headlights until the stalk was pulled for an amount of time (I set 4 seconds).  So if you didn't hold it in for 4 seconds, it would just wash the window and not the lights.  That option disappeared in the version of the CEC on my Superb 2.

The reason its there is of course Eu or similar regulation on Xenon headlights, which need to be kept clean or they can dazzle other drivers.

 

It annoys me too, especially if I have just washed the car!

 

Get it changed using VCDS at its next service.

8 hours ago, williamshatnerspants said:

Get it changed using VCDS at its next service.

Don't think that is something a dealer will be doing for you as they don't use VCDS and also as its a legal requirement (albeit a pretty pointless one I agree!)

14 hours ago, Superb170 said:

Don't think that is something a dealer will be doing for you as they don't use VCDS and also as its a legal requirement (albeit a pretty pointless one I agree!)

 

Sorry, my mechanic (not Skoda dealer) helps me with VCDS when I get it serviced. I presumed we are all using independents ;o) 

I managed to disable the headlight washer with the adapter + android app from carly. -This adapter

Unfortunately the app has no adjustments to time or number of screenwash/headlightwash.

Hiya all. 

 

So the system is fundamentally flawed as when I pull the fuse I would have expected them to the have no power to them.. 

 

I double checked again and using the info from here 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://mediaportal.skoda-auto.com/resource/documentation/manuals/en/Superb/05-2012/Manual/B6_Superb_OwnersManual.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiSoLnBno7TAhWrIcAKHQq0D7QQFghTMAw&usg=AFQjCNFUSVkS7G_Q9E7FejuIwkCgyU5vbg&sig2=nJF2WRRMv2JBGPDeqbC0vQ

 

It should by all accounts cut the power to them regardless of any inboard /accessible options.. I guess I could use my friends OBD cable and software to disable them. 

 

I (like many others) spend time taking care of my car and after washing and polishing (when needed) and a Wax I do not want the  over spray, especially in the summer sun where this can dry and cause paint to dull. 

 

I might be a bit OCD... Lol.. 

 

Also my friends Saab for example trigger the washers with  a quick double pull of the windscreen washer stalk...seems more sensible...

 

 

 

Without knowing anything about the curcuit I would presume the windscreen and headlight washers would be on the same fuse, so you couldn't just remove that.

Solved 

 

I was being an idiot 

 

It was fuse 36..

 

It all depends on reading the diagram correctly in the first place.... Doh..

 

When I unplugged the first time and I couldn't work out what I had unplugged. I found it was the 12v cigarette lighter in the front and the back... 

 

Knowing this it was easy

 

I now have no headlamp washers... I've brimmed the washer bottle... Let's see what difference it makes..

the fuse box label is a mirror image. makes life so difficult for right hand car drivers.

if only there was a way skoda could have produced a correct label when they decided to produce a mirror imaged fuse box for right hand drive cars!

 

I may upload one at some point.