YACT: Aiming my Wiper Fluid

[LordThing]

I have a Plymoth breeze with hood mounted wiper fluid nozels. For some reason the driver side is now aimed at the very bottom of the windshield. My passenger one is kinda aimed a little too high. If you open the hood, there is a pad that is covering the underside of the hood (I assume to help prevent excessive heat on the hood), so I cannot get to the nozzels from the underneath easy. I tried to adjust them by prying them a little bit from the top of the hood but they don't seem to move easy.

Is there an easy way to fix this? I don't want to go around bending and possibly breaking them and later find out all I needed to do was turn a knob somewhere.


Thanks

 

[DurocShark]

Buy a new car.

 

[hg321]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Buy a new car.

 

[iamwiz82]

stick a pin in each nozzle and aim as necessary. Washer jets suck

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: LordThing
I have a Plymoth breeze with hood mounted wiper fluid nozels. For some reason the driver side is now aimed at the very bottom of the windshield. My passenger one is kinda aimed a little too high. If you open the hood, there is a pad that is covering the underside of the hood (I assume to help prevent excessive heat on the hood), so I cannot get to the nozzels from the underneath easy. I tried to adjust them by prying them a little bit from the top of the hood but they don't seem to move easy.

Is there an easy way to fix this? I don't want to go around bending and possibly breaking them and later find out all I needed to do was turn a knob somewhere.


Thanks

Might be that it is clogged up and diverting the spray. You might try a 50-50 solution of vinegar and water in the tank to try to flush out the nozzle. Just make sure you wash all the vinegar off your paint right away with clear water.

 

[ThePresence]

I always wanted to invent nozzles that turn with a small joystick. Summer, open windows, a$$hole drivers, etc.

 

Listen to iamwiz82, take a small pin, stick it into the nozzle, each nozzle is in fact a small ball, it will rotate in all three axis's.

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: hg321

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Buy a new car.

 

[amoeba]

the topic name sounded strangely sexual.....wish it was YAGT: aiming my wiper fluid.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: amoeba
the topic name sounded strangely sexual.....wish it was YAGT: aiming my wiper fluid.

 

[BatmanNate]

My car has headlamp washer nozzles that I've aimed forward so as to be able to spray any hapless hack who meanders in front of my car.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
My car has headlamp washer nozzles that I've aimed forward so as to be able to spray any hapless hack who meanders in front of my car.

Now fill it with gasoline and rig up a flamethrower...

 

[marquee]

judging from the condition of my toilet, i probably should not give advice about aiming.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
My car has headlamp washer nozzles that I've aimed forward so as to be able to spray any hapless hack who meanders in front of my car.

Now fill it with gasoline and rig up a flamethrower...

People will be wondering why you have spark plugs epoxied to your headlights.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
My car has headlamp washer nozzles that I've aimed forward so as to be able to spray any hapless hack who meanders in front of my car.

Now fill it with gasoline and rig up a flamethrower...

People will be wondering why you have spark plugs epoxied to your headlights.

I'll just have to refrain from hitting the trigger while I'm moving forward.

 

[ucdbiendog]

rotate them pointing forward, away from your windsheild. Then when someone walks in front of your car at a crosswalk, you can squirt them with washer fluid. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Roger
Listen to iamwiz82, take a small pin, stick it into the nozzle, each nozzle is in fact a small ball, it will rotate in all three axis's.

koo. answer found and confirmed.

 

[CraigRT]

my Neon has this same problem sometimes.. gotta stick a pin in there and aim them that way. it's kind of trial and error but it works eventually (I recommend filling the washer resevoir with mostly water to run these tests as you will waste a decent amount of fluid to get it right.

then you can add more washer fluid.

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog
rotate them pointing forward, away from your windsheild. Then when someone walks in front of your car at a crosswalk, you can squirt them with washer fluid. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

that's a damn good idea

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Roger
Listen to iamwiz82, take a small pin, stick it into the nozzle, each nozzle is in fact a small ball, it will rotate in all three axis's.

I had no idea about this. I swapped my left and right nozzles because the driver side one was clogged and only fired well from one hole, and now water sprays sideways, off the windshield. I want to get new ones, but auto parts stores seem to only have the chrone and LED ones.

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Roger
Listen to iamwiz82, take a small pin, stick it into the nozzle, each nozzle is in fact a small ball, it will rotate in all three axis's.

I had no idea about this. I swapped my left and right nozzles because the driver side one was clogged and only fired well from one hole, and now water sprays sideways, off the windshield. I want to get new ones, but auto parts stores seem to only have the chrone and LED ones.

You must not be looking hard enough

 

[LordThing]

Talking about squirting people...

I had a 89 Plymouth voyager. The fluid nozzels were on the wipers so there was a tube that ran up the wiper blade. Anyway, being that this is a 12 year old vehicle, the passenger side tube had split at the base and would provide a direct line of fire to the right when the whipers were at their peak. I didn't know that the tube had split and was driving through WVU while talking to a friend in the car. I decided to squirt some fluid and caught the guy on the sidewalk swat madly in the air as I passed. It took a few more squirts and a few more people to realize that we could do this ambush on command. The stream of liquid was a good 6-10ft off the right side of my windshield. It became a game to drive around Morgantown and ride passed some unsuspecting coed going to the bars and douse her.

That shaggin wagon was the best vehicle I ever had. Sigh, may she rest in peace.

 

[Crappopotamus]

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog
rotate them pointing forward, away from your windsheild. Then when someone walks in front of your car at a crosswalk, you can squirt them with washer fluid. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

this + joystick idea + flamethrower idea = $$$

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: aRCeNiTe

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Roger
Listen to iamwiz82, take a small pin, stick it into the nozzle, each nozzle is in fact a small ball, it will rotate in all three axis's.

I had no idea about this. I swapped my left and right nozzles because the driver side one was clogged and only fired well from one hole, and now water sprays sideways, off the windshield. I want to get new ones, but auto parts stores seem to only have the chrone and LED ones.

You must not be looking hard enough

I ask them.

 

[Abhi]

You guys are creative