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Just thought I'd pop this down in case anyone experiences the same problem.

Rear Wash facility had been getting poor recently Hardly squirted enough washer fluid to wet the window and took ages before any came out - Front wasn't anything to write home about either - more dribble than dousing but bearable

I know I thought run the reservoir down and do the old Viakal trick.

The following is a bit of a digress but maybe usefull for someone

- The pipes and jets tend to scale up over time especially if neat water is used in the past instead of 10% screen wash

- run the tank down to the bottom

- Nick wifes or mums bottle of viakal

- Squirt half a bottle in the reservoir and then activate the jets to get it to the nozzles (Front and rear)

- Wash the excess of the paintwork with a hose

- Go have a cup of tea (or other suitable non alcholic beverage) and return the stolen goods before they are spotted missing

- Repeat occasional squirts and wash downs to keep the stuff that is still active in the washer bottle going down the tubes

- when empty hose fill to rinse it out of the washer bottle

- Refill with clean water and 10% screen wash

- Have fun readjusting the jets cos now the front screen jets go straight over the roof when stationary at traffic lights

Satisfy yourself with a job well done

Well not in my case cos whilst the fronts were now perfect

The back one was p*** poor to non existant

So bit more investigation required

Remove battery to check flow at the pump/solenoid - bets on me having to reset the service light?

Pulled the pipe of the pump - blimmey loads of flow (Basically while she pushed the stalk I was watching) Now a bit damp - I thought it's a long run from front to rear whats the odds on a kinked tube restricting flow

Off with the trim on the inside of the hatch nice rubber joining piece removed and she gets to push the stalk again - oooh I thought I didn't get wet - just dribbles out of the tube after ages waiting to get any through. When it stopped flowing it dissapeared back down the tube like a rat up a drainpipe...... Now I am suspicious - it shouldn't go back down the tube

I worked out where it went - in through the bulkhead under the carpet on the passenger side then along the car on the passenger side on the inside of the sill - So have a quick look under the carpet bit wet down here - well actually very wet - time for the bounty!!!!!!

So off with the door seal and interior trim carpet prised up and check the pipe for splits - none found

But when the squirter was activated more water/screenwash appeared

So it's a three door so of with the trim panel on the passenger side by the rear seat - Lift up seat cushion - deep joy its screenwash city under the seat too - more bounty

Get off pannel what did I find?

You may have already voted but we've narrowed it down a bit since then so what was it?

1. Split pipe
2. Holed pipe
3. Split joint

You all decided?

There is a join right by the seat back rest locating pin insde the panel and it a flexible bit of rubber bout 3 inches long to join the plastic tube and the plastic tubes are 3.5 inches apart

I managed to work a little bit of slack at the bulkhead end all the way back along the sill to recover 3/4 of an inch and the put the thing back together with some mini cable ties as a belt and braces just in case

Spent next 30 mins trying to bounty up any other water puddles - may have to revert to seats and carpets out for a proper job at the weekend but it'll do for now.

Like I said it might help someone

That was the exact same thing as happened to mine!

now that pipe's all taped up and won't be popping off again!

Hey mate nice post and very handy. i was having the same problem and checked today and found water running down the rear passenger door card......gutted i was! Just a silly question tho....how do you remove the rear passenger door card???????

so far i have 2 pull off circular clips, one screw down at floor level and the anchorage for the back of the seat..........anything else

thanks in advance

Polo_Gio wrote:Hey mate nice post and very handy. i was having the same problem and checked today and found water running down the rear passenger door card......gutted i was! Just a silly question tho....how do you remove the rear passenger door card???????

so far i have 2 pull off circular clips, one screw down at floor level and the anchorage for the back of the seat..........anything else

thanks in advance

Sounds about it from memory - I think I had the seats folded down to give me a bit more room

Very useful info... now if only i could be arsed sorting my rear wash wipe out, oh well, i can live without it!

Ah bolocks...... My rear washer didn't work today. So I thought hmm, interesting. No washer fluid. So I topped it up and again, it empties itself??????


Then I notice that the drive way is wet under the car..... Not the A/C..... Low an behold, the rear carpet is all sopping wet. And to make matters worse, the sun shines on the car and all the achohol is evapourating from the leaked screen wash.

I pulled up the seats and they are soaked and the carpet is soaked. So it looks like the same old deal. I will add it to my list and send the car back to VW this week.

So thats:-
1) Fix heated mirror on Drivers Side. Doesn't heat.
2) Fix leak from rear wash pipe
3) Check clutch, creaks and sometimes feels like the carpet is under it.
4) Slight Oil Leak - Off/Side - Power Steering Pump maybe. -not really a problem.

mine just doesnt work full stop! for sumreason it comes out the front a bit, well it did a while ago, aint tried in ages lol

The exact same thing happend 2 me this post was a great help cheers