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Filling the windscreen washer bottle

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944 LIL

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well not exactly an arduous task - or so i thought......
quite important to be able to wash the windscreen at this time of year - so I poured the fluid in - and it started pouring out of the bumper. Obviously a hole in the pipe leading to the offside headlight washer. Emboldened by the knowledge contained in this forum, I thought I'd take off the bumper - only two bolts. Well the valance was blocking the bolts - so a quick search suggested I could get behind the lights by removing the rubber pads - I managed to follow to the word JamesO 's steps - rounded off screws included - and found the offending tube which had parted company with the connector. But I couldn't get enough purchase to connect them. I tried using a jubilee clip - to no avail. Whilst I was at it I thought I'd change the light - I'd got a new one from ebay - only to find it doesn't work.
Four hours start to finish - the washer bottles empty, the old light's still in place and the cars held together by 2 less screws than it was....
If that wasn't enough, I decided to give it a quick wash - there is now a pool of water on the back seat - I have a leak in the the back screen somewhere....
Nowhere in the forum does it say owning a 944 is a nightmare [:D]
 
[:D] All part of the fun Colin, we've all been there in one form or another, I think its what they call character [;)]
 
Hi there Colin
Join the club .....
So Friday my replacement electronic heater * ventilation control unit arrived from Porsch Apart.
Easy - take the knobs off, four screws, three plugs ten minutes flat....
So you know where this is leading.
knobs / screws / plugs.
As I re-insert the right hand 12 plug connector the back of the plug pops off, slips from my finger and drops between the dash and the back. This gap is aprox 1/4 inch wide. The plug back drops into it perfectly and I can hear it slide down the top of my radio unit.

Did you know you can completely free-up and move the centre console with the removal of only 8 further screws? You can then move the console rear-wards sufficiently to get your hand into the new, much enlarged gap.
We'll gloss over the bad language - ('no it wasn't, it was foul!!' - Mrs SteveS who chose the wrong moment to ask if everything was OK 'cos it seemed to be taking longer than the 10 minute original estimate!!!) and the 20 minutes to get the 12 socketed wires into the correct place and then manage to clip the plug back into the right place.
then there was the further 20 minutes to reassemble the centre console and the dash.

I even managed to get back inside in time for my supper, for some strange reason this was put down on the table at the normal time (see reference to foul language above) - my being there, was at this juncture, fortuitous as it least it meant supper was hot as was intended.

The oddest thing about the whole episode was that the following day when I tested it on the way to work, it all functioned as Porsche intended....
 
Steve
Spookily enough I think I've seen you - I was down in Port Quinn at half term and remember seeing a silver 944 on the roads.
Mrs D resents the time spent on LIL - its a jealousy thing. I got it in the neck today 'cos the Christmas tree wasn't put up in the (unstated) timescales she'd have liked. None the less, I too had a hot roast dinner, the tree is up and decorated and i'm polishing off a rather splendid bottle of wine.
And is I now know how to get into the washer connection it'll be quick to fix next weekend !!
I'll also work out how to swap the bulbs over - or the lens perhaps - and the light will be fixed too.
A bit of time, some wine - and owning a 944 is fantastic again....
 
Hi there Colin
Should have let me know - I'd have bought you a pint just to line up LIL & UIL together!
The registration belongs to the town where I was born!!
In fact it wouldn't have been me as the 924S is SORN just now, mine is the Burgundy aka Velvet Red Metallic S2


 
Steve

Rather embarrassingly I was in a people carrier - a diesel TDI - on which either the T or the I is knackered !!

 
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