Cant Spray Your Cars Windshield Diagnose Broken Washer Nozzles

Ah, has this ever happened to you? A bug splatters on your windshield, you push your squirters. I just got no pressure. Unbelievable, we're going to have to check that out. Hey, friends, it's Len from 1A Auto. Have you had the same experience as me with your washer squirters not having any pressure? We want to try to figure out what's going on. It could be a possibility of a couple of different things. So, we're going to check it out and, hopefully, help you out with your problem as well. Let's get started.

One of the first things I always like to do is just make sure there's no obstructions right on the outside. If there's anything blocking it, such as snow, or dirt, or anything like that, obviously, you're going to have an issue. This looks good. I check the driver's side. It looks good as well. So, let's move along and get under the hood. Okay, so we've got the hood up. And as you can tell, we have a covering over where those washer squirters are going to be. We need to get underneath there, so we can see exactly what's going on.

Let's grab a little forky tool, and we're going to start pulling out all these little pushpins. All right, let's get this out of here. Okay, so now that we got that off of there, let's just check to make sure it is actually attached to the nozzles, which this one just broke off real easy. And this one wasn't even attached apparently. So, that's definitely a real problem as to why we would have low pressure. If this one right here was broken off, and this one was still connected, obviously, the pump would have a much easier time forcing the fluid down to this side and, of course, squirting it up into the hood, rather than forcing it out of the tiny holes on the actual nozzles.

But we're not going to stop here. We need to actually pull this down a little bit. We're going to try it again, and just see exactly how much pressure actually comes out of these lines. Let's give this a try. So, as you can tell, we have a lot of pressure coming from this. So, I'm really not too worried about the lines coming from the pump, or the pump itself. If for some reason you felt like you didn't have very much pressure, maybe it was still a weak stream, we're going to continue on to show you another couple of places to look.

So, now I'm going to be simplifying this down to just one nozzle. So, I'm going to take this off right here. We have just the main hose that goes to this. I'm going to put it right into a collection receptacle, so I can just try to recycle this. Wow. So, as you can tell, we definitely have a lot of pressure coming from here. But if for some reason you had pressure coming from here, but none coming from this area right there that goes to your washer nozzles, you know that this is probably the blockage issue right here.

And for the sake of your time, I'm not going to continue down the line unplugging things, and just showing you, now let's test here and there and whatnot. But if you were to continue on, and just kind of follow the line, you're going to see other connection points. You should be able to just disconnect those, rerun the test if you had to. If for some reason you did find that this area right here was blocked, or even the other area was blocked, you could try to blow that out with something as simple as compressed air.

Of course, you'd want to be careful with compressed air. You don't want to force it into your skin or splash anything back at your eyes. And eventually, the hose is going to lead down to the washer fluid pump, which should be located right on your washer fluid reservoir. Just look around, you're going to see a little cap that looks something like this on most vehicles. Now, obviously, this video is supposed to just help you out if you notice that you have a weak stream coming from your washer fluid nozzles. We're trying to see if you have a blockage of some sort.

If you find that when you push on your little washer fluid button inside your vehicle, and you don't have any fluid coming out of your nozzles, and you don't hear any noise coming from your washer fluid pump, well, that's something a little bit different that you're going to have to diagnose. We have a video on it, and we'll put a link in the description below. Something else to think about is if it's super cold outside, below 32 degrees, and you're using washer fluid that isn't rated for under 32 degrees, you might have a little freeze-up condition inside your lines, which of course, would cause a restriction.

If for some reason anywhere on your washer fluid system has a crack or it's broken in any way, obviously, that's going to cause an issue with pressure. So, check for cracks. Check to make sure nothing's broken. With that said, let's get started on putting this back together. And of course, we're going to replace those nozzles. And now, there's our problem. Got our squirter here. Obviously, you want to make sure it's facing in the right direction, facing towards the windshield. Pop it right in. Give it a nice wiggle. Make sure it's secured. Let's get back under the hood. Now, let's just reconnect everything that we disconnected.

All right, now before we put the headliner back on, let's give him a quick test. Well, that works good, but it sounds like we could use some wiper blades. Okay, friends, just a quick recap on what we found. For our particular vehicle, we found we had an issue with those nozzles. They were broken right off, which of course, is a very big issue, and we weren't getting any pressure coming out of them. You might have a different issue. Maybe you have a potential kink, a break in the line, or maybe you notice you push on a button, and for some reason, you don't have any fluid coming out at all. You give it a little listen, and you don't even hear the pump going.

If that's the case, check out the link in the description below, because we have another video for you on that. With all that said, if you liked the video, smash on that like button for me, it would mean the world. If you learned a little something, and you want to talk about it, maybe you have an experience of your own, leave it in the comment section below, because I always love hearing from you. Please feel free to subscribe, and ring the bell that way where you can be kept up with all of our latest content. Thanks.

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