Headlight Washers stopped working

[AlanD]

Sounds like the MK6s are much more sensitive compared to the MK5. In the MK5 you can get away with just flicking it and the headlight ones wont come out.

I think removing the fuse is the best way.

[Ant]

GolfTi - I'll try and explain it better lol

Excuse me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs. The way the headlight washers work is that when the lights are on, the first time you pull the stalk back it will wash the lights and windscreen and then every 5th wash (I think you need to be on a pretty long journey / dirty road to be washing your windscreen 5 times, in which case a bit of soap on the bonnet is irrelevant). So when you are just doing normal driving at night this works well.

If you just pull the stalk back for a split second (i.e not enough time for any spray to actually come out) you will see the windscreen wipers start to wipe as they think you have just squirted washer fluid. That is classed as its first whipe so when you do it again it WONT do the headlight washers and will just do the windscreen saving your bonnet and giving you a clean windscreen

Capice?

On my 56 the washers still come on after the 'first wipe' in fact they seems to wash everytime I pull back on the stalk, is there any VagCom settings that could change this?

I'm not worried about getting the bonnet covered in washer fluid, when you wash the windscreen you get the roof and side covered anyway. But with it washing everytime I keep running low on washer fluid.

[AlanD]

VAGCOM will sort you out. It shouldn't be doing it everytime. VW might even do it for free as it shouldn't be doing that.

[Ant]

Cheers, am going to be contacting VW to see if they can check the alignment of the xenon so will raise that at the same time.

[jaydubveedub]

I've got Xenons and my headlamp washers come on every time I clean the screen. Is this because of the Xenons perhaps?

In the UK it's a legal requirement for cars with Xenons to have headlamp washers - is this why they wash every time?

It does run down the screenwash really quick at this time of year, although I think cars with headlamp washers have a slightly larger screenwash tank.