CrashBurnFly
ClioSport Club Member
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Tara’s turbo nutter Subaru’s windscreen squirters had faded away to a dribble. When I checked it out the washer bottle was full of black gunge and lines were restricted and clogging the pump – some sort of microorganisms. Used a torch and peered into the 182’s washer tank and that too had some black lifeform staining the inside of the tank.
Cleaned out the 182 tank with a bottle brush (£2 hardware shop) and get one about 30cm long to reach the bottom of the tank with a bristly end to dig about at the bottom of the tank. Pushed garden hose end to bottom of tank and let water gush out the top of the tank bringing all the gunge from the bottom of the tank with it until no more gunge comes out.
DON’T try and just squirting the residue out of your squirters as likely to clog it up.
Get some disinfectant that has NO bleach and check label OK with paint, plastic … your car.
With tank cleaned add a little disinfectant to tank (see label for mixture to kill everything) but about a cup and fill with water.
Give a 30 second squirt so all lines are flushed and left full of disinfectanty water.
Wash it off car just in case it harms paint.
Leave it for a few hours or whatever disinfectant says to kill everything in the hoses.
Flush it out of tank with hose as before a more dead gunge likely to come loose.
Refill with normal windscreen fluid.
Done.
Cleaned out the 182 tank with a bottle brush (£2 hardware shop) and get one about 30cm long to reach the bottom of the tank with a bristly end to dig about at the bottom of the tank. Pushed garden hose end to bottom of tank and let water gush out the top of the tank bringing all the gunge from the bottom of the tank with it until no more gunge comes out.
DON’T try and just squirting the residue out of your squirters as likely to clog it up.
Get some disinfectant that has NO bleach and check label OK with paint, plastic … your car.
With tank cleaned add a little disinfectant to tank (see label for mixture to kill everything) but about a cup and fill with water.
Give a 30 second squirt so all lines are flushed and left full of disinfectanty water.
Wash it off car just in case it harms paint.
Leave it for a few hours or whatever disinfectant says to kill everything in the hoses.
Flush it out of tank with hose as before a more dead gunge likely to come loose.
Refill with normal windscreen fluid.
Done.
