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Ok, so another problem has come to my attention of late as the car gets older and older.

My washer bottle doesnt hold water! It slowly leaks over a few days to just over a week.

I cant work out where the leak is coming from.

I replaced that little black rubber that connects the pump to the bottle.

I opened the bottom plate of the pump where the rubber o ring is and put silicone all around.

STILL LEAKS!

anyone come across the problem and fixed it successfully?

is it just a matter of another trip to the wreckers to get a new unit?

Cheers

Nick

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The R31 have the same problem, its in the seal of the moulding, 30 years of bumps and shunts and rubbing starts to affect it.

I reckon take it out and give it a ripper clean, like put morning fresh and hot water and scrub the guts out with a bottle brush,

Then fill it with cordial or something that you can see the leak?

I would think a hot knife/soldering iron could melt the plastic a bit to stop the hole up once youve found it (could be more than one)

I do have a spare up in a box somewheres, might dig it out for you if you cant fix existing one!

Another option is go to an 'aftermarket' unit, like from a commodore or some other thing easily replaceable. Wreckers! (could get a washer bottlle when you get your sway bar!)

I had a smaller secondary washer bottle and pump setup on my other R30 Hatch, second switch too. In the 2nd bottle I had Barclays Window Washer fluid. So if the windows was really dirty I could give that one a few bursts and let it soak the bug guts and dust a bit, then blast it with the water one. (i used to keep having to re-top up the main water reservoir with fluid, either kept fogetting or couldnt be bothered eventually)

Kinda over the top, but thats just me...

I dont think its the bottle itself that is leaking but either one of the hoses or the pump unit itself is just faulty now.

I have filled the bottle half way, blocked the hole at the bottom and blown into it with no water seepage at all.

I know it leaks from somwhere near the unit coz its always wet there.

Its just annoying, when i actually want to use the washer wipers sometimes theres no water in there!

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