4 days in, the wife's first complaint.

 

Having to wash the windscreen today, she mentioned the washer jets are a bit weak, at least compared to her previous Octavia and my Superb.

 

When asked, she confirmed the washer fluid made it onto the windscreen so I'm not sure what more she expects 

I’m impressed you let her (or anyone else before someone accuses me of anything!) drive your new car so soon after getting it. 

Yep. Poor washer jet performance has been moaned about before.

 

Combined with LH wiper failing to clear the top few inches of blade.

 

Jets are adjusted with smal Torx tool if you hunt hard enough.

 

Our Octavia washers are 10 times better than the bear.  And they squirt water immediately, compared wth the bear dragging blades across a dry screen before any water appears.

 

They are about the worst I’ve met.

Edited 20 June, 20188 yr by BoxerBoy

Mine are OK, but my previous Superb, when new, did the “wipe the dry screen first” trick.  The dealer (who I do NOT nowadays use) said “they’re all like that”.  I asked him to demonstrate on another Superb ... and it worked fine, so they took it in.  Turned out the plastic supply pipe was kinked. Once they’d replaced that, never a problem again.  Could be something similar in the Kodiaq?

On 20/06/2018 at 22:56, BoxerBoy said:

Yep. Poor washer jet performance has been moaned about before.

 

Combined with LH wiper failing to clear the top few inches of blade.

 

Jets are adjusted with smal Torx tool if you hunt hard enough.

 

Our Octavia washers are 10 times better than the bear.  And they squirt water immediately, compared wth the bear dragging blades across a dry screen before any water appears.

 

They are about the worst I’ve met.

Agreed with all of this, i think the washers go on the front lights first and then the windscreen, just seems poorly implemented for me. I find it near impossible to keep my windscreen clean from bugs and such, on all my older cars if i had anything like that on my windscreen, as long as you caught it early it would wipe off with the washer and wipers but not on the Kodiaq. Bit of a weird one.

It is strange, you'd imagine that washer pump itself, the pipes, the routing used from the bottle to the jets, and the fan jets themselves would all be generic VAG parts.

 

For the system in the Kodiaq to be quite so noticeably weaker than on other Skoda, or indeed VAG models would suggest a design issue, or they've seen an opportunity for a cost reduction?

5 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

It is strange, you'd imagine that washer pump itself, the pipes, the routing used from the bottle to the jets, and the fan jets themselves would all be generic VAG parts.

 

For the system in the Kodiaq to be quite so noticeably weaker than on other Skoda, or indeed VAG models would suggest a design issue, or they've seen an opportunity for a cost reduction?

Would be strange, everything else seems so up to par with the other cars on the market, to try and save money on something as trivial as washers would be weird. 

This feels a bit like the window issue with the fabia MK3 compared to the mk2. 

 

No hold lock button on fob to close them along with no one-touch close either.