rear screen wash e53 2004 3.o d

[X5Sport]

The two together are the front & rear screen ones.  Can't tell you which is which, but a press of the right button will (or should) fire the right pump.  The third one is the headlamp cleaning one.  Each has a strainer below the pump which can gunk up.

At a guess you'll need to get inside the rear spoiler itself in the same way yo do to get at the high level brake light.

The procedure is on the website I got the other stuff from.

Richard

[Smeeagain]

[quote="X5Sport"]
The two together are the front & rear screen ones.  Can't tell you which is which, but a press of the right button will (or should) fire the right pump.  The third one is the headlamp cleaning one.  Each has a strainer below the pump which can gunk up.

At a guess you'll need to get inside the rear spoiler itself in the same way yo do to get at the high level brake light.

The procedure is on the website I got the other stuff from.

Richard
[/quote]

Thanks Richard. That's interesting as the front headlamp reservoir filter had by far and away the most gunk but the headlight washer works fine. Of the two pumps together, one of them the filter had completely dissolved/integrated!! Which in itself could be the problem in that with no filter present would allow the gunk to make its way through the pipe.

Smee

[Smeeagain]

Is lack of rear screen wash an MOT fail?
Smee

[X5Sport]

section 8.2 only refers to the view ahead and windscreen.  No mention of rear ones at all in the current book.

Richard

[Steamyrotter]

[quote="Smeeagain"]
Is lack of rear screen wash an MOT fail?
Smee
[/quote]

Think its only the wiper that you can get caught on.....

Well in my case on the disco it was anyway!!  The rubber blade had split.