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That’ll explain where the washer fluid was going!

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I’ve battled since getting my Dear Little Citigo (around 4 months) with a leaky rear washer.

I’ve taken it to the garage who ‘fixed it’ with tape and yet a week later it retuned (this time with a vengeance).

I’ve been lucky it didn’t cause damage to the boot locker/closed sensor.

 

This weekend I decided I’d had enough and wanted to fix it, or at least state this problem in the eyes.

 

Turns out, the pipe is completely broken and was repaired with some heat shrink.

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No tape in sight! It was a clean break, and easily fixed with an insert plug!

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I contemplated tearing all the way back to the attachment plug within the body of the car, but like most cars required disassembly of 90% of the trim.

 

I’m more annoyed that they didn’t think to look up how to fix it and just bodged it - I wouldn’t have minded I’d they said “we’ve bodged it, you can order a new part or we can”.

They sell repair kits for this on eBay, I used on before on a Polo that had failed 

 

I wouldn't even know where the next connection is, maybe even all the way back to the washer bottle 🤣 

  • 3 weeks later...

Any suitable diameter of silicon tubing from amazon would do it, but no harm in additional shrink shrink on top of that, the heat shrink won't last by itself. (thin, fragile, and fatigues under vibration).

 

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