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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Bazzer on 03 February 2006, 08:09

Title: How hot washer jets??
Post by: Bazzer on 03 February 2006, 08:09

Hey

Came in to work today - 30 min drive, mfa helpfully telling me it's -2 outside and so I've got me wooly hat on... Put me rear squidgy on to wash the window, worked fine... Fronts had frozen up though. Funny that, since I thought they were sposed to be heated and the back one not??

So, how hot should they get, and does anyone know how to test them? Also, are they like the heated mirrors, and come on when the ignition is on (all the time) or only when say, the demister button is on?

Ta...
 

Title: Re: How hot washer jets??
Post by: Len on 03 February 2006, 13:24

Probably something to do with the wind chill factor mate! No amount of heating will deal with that if you drive fast!

Title: Re: How hot washer jets??
Post by: Bazzer on 03 February 2006, 13:52

(ahem... draws attention to the mk3) 'Drive fast'? How on earth do I do that??  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: How hot washer jets??
Post by: Overseer on 03 February 2006, 13:58

so u dont have antifreezey type screenwasher then?

mines green and looks like wee when i wash the windows  :grin:

Title: Re: How hot washer jets??
Post by: Bazzer on 03 February 2006, 14:08

Oh yeah, just not a great amount of concentrate in there... I figured that if they were heated jets they wouldn't freeze up, so long as the pipes didn't freeze and the whole bottle didn't freeze I'd be ok....  :undecided:

Title: Re: How hot washer jets??
Post by: Len on 03 February 2006, 14:15

Its the nozzles that freeze, right at the outlet ends. And sometimes even the antifreeze type wash additive can cope with wind chill.

Believe me it can be double the outside temp over that section of the bonnet.

I have had virtually neat green stuff in the bottle and its still frozen after a run on the motorway!