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Originally Posted by btan219
When the spray button was actuated, I heard the sound like it was spraying something. What specifically should I be checking for? I'm not car savvy at all so I'm not sure what are the lines and what I should actually be checking for.
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Obviously, make sure the washer container is full of fluid .....
Well,
if you can hear the pump running when you push the button, that indicates that it is getting power. Now, if the fluid isn't coming out of the nozzle up by the windshield, either the pump is just running and not pumping the fluid or the lines to the nozzles are stopped up (or kinked) or the nozzle is plugged.
I'd suggest you start with the nozzles and run a pin or piece of small wire in the nozzle. If still no fluid comes out, look in that plastic grate and see if the fluid is squirting out somewhere else. If no, follow the line back to the fluid container and see if it is kinked.
If all looks good and still no washer fluid, then the fun begins. You would have to get to the pump and tank and blow out the lines.
OR ..... take it into a shop and tell then your car's windshield washer ain't working and ask them to fix it.
Back-in-the-day, when the windshield got that dirty, we would just take an old T-shirt rag, dip it into the 2 1/2 gal milk pail of water we kept in the trunk, to fill the radiator after the car overheated, and wash off the windshield .....
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