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Car Forum / Alfa Romeo Cars / February 2006156 Windscreen washer problems
I have tried to search on google for this problem, but google seems to be having problems too, so apologies if this is a well posted problem. I have a 156 registered in 2000. It has headlamp washers. When I try to wash the screen I can hear the motor but there is no water from the jets. If I turn on headlamps there is no water to them either. When I disconnect the motor to the windscreen jets and try the headlamp ones there is no sound. If anyone has experience of this fault I would appreciate some help. Cheers Michael Having now read the similar earlier post....................if I switch the electrical connections over from the windscreen pump and the headlamp pump I get water at the headlamps and nothing at the windscreen, and the windscreen pump does not operate.....................help. If the headlamp pump is separately fused then I can't find it. Any ideas. >I have tried to search on google for this problem, but google seems to be >having problems too, so apologies if this is a well posted problem. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Cheers > Michael Fuse to washer pump is behind the top of the glove box ... don't ask me why! There's a small hatch to see through, but it's nigh-on impossible to get replace most of them up there!! Gazza > Having now read the similar earlier post....................if I switch the > electrical connections over from the windscreen pump and the headlamp pump I [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers > > Michael I have checked all the fuses in the glove box except a yellow 20 amp one which is in the top left hand corner, I cannot reach it; any idea if that is the one? I got the windscreen wash going. It was the T piece which connects all 3 pipes and is under the cover below the windscreen. Replaced it with a universal connector from Halfords. Must have been clogged, although the nearside washer is just trickling for some reason, but that is tomorrow's problem. > Fuse to washer pump is behind the top of the glove box ... don't ask me > why! [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > Cheers >> > Michael >I have checked all the fuses in the glove box except a yellow 20 amp one >which is in the top left hand corner, I cannot reach it; any idea if that [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>> > Cheers >>> > Michael Most of my previous post is irrelevant as I didn't read the replies already posted. I think I'm half asleep. Also, the fuse is in the glove box and not behind the dash panel as I found eventually. I hope you succeeded in fixing it. mike >I have tried to search on google for this problem, but google seems to be >having problems too, so apologies if this is a well posted problem. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Cheers > Michael I had this problem recently on my 156 2.0l year 2000. both my screen washers and headlight washers failed. The headlamp washers had probably failed long before I noticed them not working when checking the screen washers. The headlamp washers turned out to be the fuse. To prove that it's not the pump; swap the connectors from the screen pump onto the headlamp pump; they should then work. Replace the fuse. I replaced the pump in an attempt to fix my screen washers. It was making a noise but no liquid came out of the jets. The Alfa/Fiat pump cost me £22 and turned out to be unnecessary. The real cause of the problem was the "T" piece that splits the flow to the two jets. Like most things Alfa it's a bit unusual. It has a rubber diaphram inside and this had distorted or perished and wasn't letting any liquid through.Removing the rubber bit didn't make it work either I couldn't get an Alfa replacement as it was Christmas holidays and everywhere was closed. I replaced it with bog standard plastic "T" piece from the local car shop and it works fine. On mine the fuse for the headlamp washer pump is in the fuse box behind the trim panel by your right knee. mike |
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