Windscreen water nozzles stopped working

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Windscreen water nozzles stopped working

Postby Andy Wana » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:22 pm

Fellow forumites,

Both my MX5's water nozzles decided to stop working a couple of days ago
I thought it might just be an empty water reservoir, but it wasn't
I am thinking it might be a faulty stalk, but the windscreen wipers still work OK

Do you think it might be calcium build up? or something else?
Anyone had experienced this before?
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Postby SuperMazdaKart » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:30 pm

washer motor making any noise when trying to squirt? you do have the wipers going first right?
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Postby Andy Wana » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:40 pm

SuperMazdaKart wrote:washer motor making any noise when trying to squirt? you do have the wipers going first right?


Can't hear the washer motor since I've only used the wipers when the car was moving (MX5 cabin can get a little noisy), so I might give that one a go

In the past, the wipers will go first before the nozzles spray the water onto the windscreen
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Postby NMX516 » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:46 pm

There could be dirt or crap of some description in the lines, or in the pickup for the pump...
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Postby SuperMazdaKart » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:47 pm

i actually thought mine stopped working once before, then found that before it would squirt had to have the wipers on first. down one click then pull left stalk towards you i think it is
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Postby Fuzzlet » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:49 am

Get a small pin and poke it through the holes...u might have some gunk of some sort in there
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Postby Andy Wana » Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:03 am

Turns out that there was nothing wrong with the nozzles
Just needed a little TLC to get it running again ...
Inspected the plastic straw-like bits ... gave it a bit of sucking action ... and voila ... works again
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Postby Benny » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:35 pm

Andy Wana wrote:Turns out that there was nothing wrong with the nozzles
Just needed a little TLC to get it running again ...
Inspected the plastic straw-like bits ... gave it a bit of sucking action ... and voila ... works again


There's nothing like a bit of sucking to get the action happening. :mrgreen:

If you're doing it to your washer tubes though, DON"T SWALLOW!!
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