Right, hi guys,

 

Completely new to cars, so you'll have to forgive me if I ask anything ridiculous, every days a school day.

 

I've had my Fabia Mk1 in bits today trying to find why the rear washer doesn't spray, I've only ever tried it driving and could hear the pump going, the wiper pivots but theres no wash. On the drive today I saw a puddle form under the bonnet so knew the pump works but the hose had come off. Got all the bumper off and there on the pump, the hose adaptors come off.

 

I tried the wash again but now theres a leak further under the bonnet, this was coming from further along the hose where it looks like it's been cut and a connector used to join it, I'm thinking the hose has split and been cut and connected as an easy fix.

 

 

Looking down into the bonnet, thats the link in my hand. It's located underneath the windshield water run off vents, that's the air filter housing in the top right, to give you an idea where it is.

 

 

And from underneath, dead central in the photo.

 

If someone could have a look where this should lead, where it goes for example, and if it's clipped to the car in the bonnet anywhere, or what general path is takes, I can look for that in my motor and just find and reconnect it. I couldn't see any hoses or pipes of the same diameter hanging around in there so I'm thinking it might have fallen into the bodywork of the car somewhere.

 

While I'm at it, I also found these two loose ends I couldn't understand,

 

 

This was a length of thick rubber hosing, I thought maybe an overflow drain pipe for the coolant, but wanted to be sure it shouldn't be plugged in somewhere. That's the coolant reservoir on the right.

 

 

And this, which in hindsight I guess is the coolant drain tap, but better safe than sorry.

 

Thanks for your time,

Duncan

 

Edited 15 July, 20178 yr by duncanlol

The thick black hose is a drain point for the battery tray incase any water gets into the battery tray when you wash the engine bay...

Hi, rear washer pipe work and leaks , absolute pita on ours I've with difficulty and many a bad word plus a fair few scratches managed to join the pipes together just where they go through the bulkhead and get a plastic cable tie around the joints, another place mine leaked was under the carpet in the rear passenger footwell, FYI when the water freezes in the pipe and the rear washer is operated the joints open under the pressure from the pump against the froozen water ( this also takes out a couple of fuses can't remember but you lose your wipers !! pretty well documented on here ) best to ensure windscreen washer bottle water is 50/50 with screen wash through cold weather 

maybe not the answers you seek but hope this helps

Have a look at this thread. I posted pics of all the rear washer pipe connections...

 

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/320338-washers-19-sdi/

 

I cut the pipe connectors off mine and used Halfords 5mm vacuum tube to sleeve them. They have it in packs off the shelf.  Never had any more problems since then. Just make sure to have the correct screenwash strength in cold weather.

 

 

 

Fabdavrav, cheers, wanted to be sure it wasn't something important!

 

TMB, I've had a look at your pictures on the other thread and it looks to me the bulkhead fitting has popped off, cars hot at the moment and I've got 6 episodes of Game of Thrones to get in so I'll have another look in the morning.

Good idea with the vacuum tube as well, I'll get some heatshrink and do a similar job I think, really good idea.

I've been sloppy with screenwash recently too, have to keep that in mind.

 

Many thanks for the help and responses, I'll let everyone know how it goes!

Heatshrink over the original joints is a nice idea

so far i've had it pop off at the front, (easy pop it back on) the middle (undo the bit of trim, lift and push back in) and the rear! its a PITA! the one that connects to the wiper motor was a pig because you have to take all that plastic trim off and align it all back up with the stupid metal clips that always fall out!
2 / 3 are easy :)

35 minutes ago, SkUG said:

so far i've had it pop off at the front, (easy pop it back on) the middle (undo the bit of trim, lift and push back in) and the rear! its a PITA! the one that connects to the wiper motor was a pig because you have to take all that plastic trim off and align it all back up with the stupid metal clips that always fall out!
2 / 3 are easy

 

" don't be sad...... 2 out of 3 ain't bad..... " 

you know what I reakon that could quite easily form part of a song 

 

Baby we can talk alright, but that aint getting us nowhere!

I always referred paradise by the dashboard light myself