windshield washer pump

[skeeters_keeper]

Just spray hot coolant on your windshield!


or has anyone heard of this cool thing called an ice scraper?

[FB71]

Ice scrapers are kinda tough to use at 70mph...

[Tim]

my pump died, i took the pump out, took it apart and fixed the motor, put it back together and caulked the bottom up, put some fluid in the tank and it started leaking... i figured screw it, its an extra 10lbs anyway, pulled the whole thing out, filler neck, tank, motor... deff an extra luxury item i do NOT need!

In some places it's a safety item.

Around here, in the winter the sludge from the snow and oil on the highway creates a film on the windshield, which blocks your view and smears if you turn the wipers on, making things worse.

My Festiva had a broken washer pump, and every few miles I had to pull over wipe it off so I could see. :shock:


However when I was in Texas I don't think I ever used the windshield washer once.

[roycehof]

Guys, I have to laugh at some of this. I have a 94 E320 Mercedes and like a previous post stated it has coolant running through a loop in the windsheild washer bottle and it also has electrically heated "nozzles" where the fluid comes out. They also comw with Wipers and nozzles for the headlights. Now here is where I have to laugh - That is about the worse car in the world to drive in the snow. I have only driven one car that was worse and it was a Volvo (which is also humurous because they are made in Sweden or osme other Scandanavian, snowy country). If the weather is so bad that you need those items to drive - you are definately in BIG trouble driving the car that you a$$ is in. Get ready to become intimate friends with a ditch or a telephone pole. I rather be spraying my little bottle of window cleaner out of my front window of my Festiva than sitting in a ditch with heated washer fluid spraying on the windsheild of my Mercedes.