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Sun 6 Jan 2002 16:37
screenwasher pipes again - alvin booth
Re: recent posts on screenwasher pipes. This morning my wifes maestro was pouring washer fluid from under the rear wheel.
The pipe had snapped possibly from the recent cold spell and is routed through the roof. Luckily when it broke it must have swung over into the channel down the side of the hatch instead of pouring it onto the roof lining.
Managed to fish it out (no slack in it) and went down the car shop and luckily they sell an angled connector. I had been visualising having to remove the roof lining to get a new pipe through from under the left side of the engine compartment to the rear right corner. It still needed fingers like a midwife to get the connector on in the roof but it worked. Have any of you garage men had to renew the pipe through a roof??
Alvin
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Sun 6 Jan 2002 21:10
Re: screenwasher pipes again - Andrew Hamilton
Plastic should take expansion due to freezing unless very old. Suggest you replace length by attaching to new pipe with string and tape over so smooth. Carefully pull through!
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Sun 6 Jan 2002 21:18
Re: screenwasher pipes again - Rob Govier
or use a small rodent
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