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Car Forum / BMW Cars / February 2007

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Overflowing washer bottle

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borosteve - 06 Feb 2007 14:15 GMT
I think I may have posted this query before but I still have't got to
the bottom of this yet so I'll try again. I have a 1988 320i tourer
that under the bonnet has two washer bottles side by side, one large
that says 'water' and one small that says 'concentrate'. When I fill
the larger of the two bottles up and use the windscreen washers the
small bottle fills up with the fluid and eventually starts to
overflow.The two bottles have pumps on them which I have tried
swapping over but to no avail. I have re-tube the system with new pipe
thinking that there may be a blockage somewhere.. to no avail. I was
posted a link to a site that had a diagram for this system showing all
the pipes but this did'nt help as it was correct anyway. Does anyone
else have a 320 with this arrangment of two bottles and if so do they
have any bother like mine? P.S. There is a seperate washer bottle for
the rear wash/wipe at the rear of the car.

Borosteve.
R. Mark Clayton - 06 Feb 2007 15:31 GMT
>I think I may have posted this query before but I still have't got to
> the bottom of this yet so I'll try again. I have a 1988 320i tourer
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>
> Borosteve.

Aha!  You actually posted a different query.

You have a blockage at the nozzles and missing / failed one way valves, so
you are pumping fluid from one to the other.  That or you have bojed the
plumbing!
borosteve - 06 Feb 2007 16:15 GMT
On 6 Feb, 15:31, "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclay...@btinternet.com>
wrote:

> >I think I may have posted this query before but I still have't got to
> > the bottom of this yet so I'll try again. I have a 1988 320i tourer
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>
> - Show quoted text -

I changed the one way valve when I re-plumbed it.The nosels all work
fine, even on the headlight washers...

Borosteve.
R. Mark Clayton - 06 Feb 2007 20:59 GMT
"borosteve" <stephen@sash5.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message

> I changed the one way valve when I re-plumbed it.The nosels all work
> fine, even on the headlight washers...
>
> Borosteve.

Fit another one.
 
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