Kia Picanto windscreen jets blocked?

crockpot

Hi

I have a 56 plate, which I bought 6 months ago.

Since I had it serviced, at garage I bought it from, windscreen jets will not squirt water, I do get the odd bit of water through after holding the stick for ages.

I rang them and they told me to take it to local Kia dealer. Hubbie ranglocal dealer and they said it could be blocked due to using 2 differant screen washes. If I took it in and this was the case, it would not be covered under the warrenty and I would have to pay to have it fixed,He told my hubbie how to jet wash it to try and clear it, he has had a go and still not working properly.

Any ideas?

Iamthesmartestmanalive

crockpot wrote: »

Hi

I have a 56 plate, which I bought 6 months ago.

Since I had it serviced, at garage I bought it from, windscreen jets will not squirt water, I do get the odd bit of water through after holding the stick for ages.

I rang them and they told me to take it to local Kia dealer. Hubbie ranglocal dealer and they said it could be blocked due to using 2 differant screen washes. If I took it in and this was the case, it would not be covered under the warrenty and I would have to pay to have it fixed,He told my hubbie how to jet wash it to try and clear it, he has had a go and still not working properly.

Any ideas?

Its not too dear too fix anyway

I had the same issue on a 10 year old car, they just had to untangle the wires, worse case scenario it needs new tubing and labour

It wont be expensive and tbh I cant see it being covered under warrant as it isnt a manufacturing fault

Poppycat

Mine was blocked once on a different car I did two things, I emptied the water tank that takes the windscreen washer with syringe (those cooking ones) and then replaced it with fresh stuff and also used a pin in the jets seem to sort the problem out for me

I noticed the old container was murky with blue windscreen washer and had bits floating in it. I do go through a lot of screen wash as I like clean windscreens

custardy

lot of problems come from people using washing up liquid at one point and it gunges the works.
are they blocked or are you not getting fluid?
reason i mention it is most have a one way valve ot keep water in the pipe @ the nozzle(s)
if yours is defective the water has to travel from the pump all the way up leading to the delay

often your better replacing the nozzles nad flushing the system with plain wa\ter.or remove the nozzles and steep them in water overnight then blow through the pipe connection to blow out any remaining gunk

Wig

poke a pin down the nozzles, if it wont fit use some electrical fuse wire.

empty the washer bottle (syphon) and fill with fairly warm water empty again fill again, and this time run the water through the pipes.

You should be able to do this yourself.