Help needed

sarahjane301979

Hi
I'm a newbie on here and hoping someone could help.
My boyfriend has overfilled my windscreen wash and it won't work! I do a lot of driving and am worried it could cause an accident not being able to see on a long journey.
Does anyone know if there's a way I can rectify it myself without going to the garage and being charged a fortune?

Thanks very much

Dick_Van_Dyke

sarahjane301979 wrote: »

Hi
I'm a newbie on here and hoping someone could help.
My boyfriend has overfilled my windscreen wash and it won't work! I do a lot of driving and am worried it could cause an accident not being able to see on a long journey.
Does anyone know if there's a way I can rectify it myself without going to the garage and being charged a fortune?

Thanks very much

How can you overfill a windscreen wash? Surely once its full the excess spills on the engine, bodywork, road?

Firstly is the motor working? When you try and use it do you hear it functioning?

If no its probably a garage job unless you know someone with some basic mechanical knowledge to do it for you.

If it is then its probably blocked up somewere.

Kurtis_Blue

Now thats the way to troll.

maninthestreet

Get a rag or old cloth, and slowly feed it down the washer filler pipe - wait a few seconds for it to absorb some of the water, then pull it out and give it a good wring. Repeat a few more times. See if that helps at all.

CHR15

It is possible the overfill ran over the electrical connector to the pump, this could have popped a fuse.

What car, what model, what year??

Maybe someone knows where the fuse will be (or look in the fuse box, some of them have a little legend, like a little windscreen squirter thing associated with the fuse)

sarahjane301979

Thanks.

My cars a Renault Clio 55 plate. The motor is working but no water is coming out.

I will try soaking it up with a cloth and if that doesn't work I will check the fuse.

Sorry I didn't mean the windscreen wash is overflowing I meant it he accidently filled it to the top past the guide line.

Thanks for those 2 helpful suggestions

catflea

I doubt that overfilling a wash bottle would cause the water to stop squirting - especially if the motor is going....

Personally I'd be inclined to find where the pipe leaves the pump/tank and fire up the motor to see if its squirting - if it is theres a blockage somewhere in the pipe/nozzle.

NickWarren_2

Try the pin in the washer nozzle trick, See if it helps, If not there may just be a slight blockage in the pipe somewhere.