Emptying washer bottle

[Loudman]

I seem to have a bit of a mystery. Washer bottle keeps ending up being empty, sometimes without me ever using washers. Following last post I checked the y-connector under the under the squirter heads and also the offtake from the bottle itself with no joy, I swear neither are leaking. Strangely I was parked the other day nose-down on a slight hill and with a very slight camber down towards the passenger side and I noticed that my washer coolant was dripping off the passenger side front mudguard!!! the stuff is obviously escaping from somewhere but I just can't find out where. Any suggestions?
03 S2 111S by the way.

Edited by Loudman on Tuesday 7th April 23:25

[Loudman]

Forgot to mention, the other symptom is that when I fill it up, drive and break hard, water squirts/dribbles out of the squirty heads, I'm pretty sure this didn't used to happen. It's like I've lost a valve or something.

[Cuzza]

If it's not the nozzle or bottle connection , it must be round the pump somewhere or even the pump itself, no idea where it is on an S2 but it'll be up front somewhere at a guess.

[Mr_C]

or a crack in the bottle.

[Loudman]

Bottle seems to be ok, no leakage when stationary. Don't think pump at front, traced the line back into drivers side sill when front clam was off with no aparent faults.

[david@mediacopy]

Bump.

I have the same problem, 2.2L of washer fluid has ran out in less than a week and I've hardly used it.

No obvious leeks, the T connector is OK (it was all checked out at service last week) and I've tried parking on a slope to try and get it to drain out to no avail. I'm wondering if there is an issue with the pipe as it routes through the chassis and the water is collecting somewhere ? Mine is a recent(ish) 'S'

[Loudman]

I never got anywhere with mine, seems to be 'intermittent' i.e. sometimes it works fine for weeks on end, sometimes the whole contents disappear overnight. I've given up thinking about it and carry a bottle of water in the boot.......

[plipule]

Loudman said:

Forgot to mention, the other symptom is that when I fill it up, drive and break hard, water squirts/dribbles out of the squirty heads, I'm pretty sure this didn't used to happen. It's like I've lost a valve or something.

There is a one way valve between the bottle and the nozzles. It will be this that has failed. very easy to change and fixes this.

Just had to change the washer bottle on my Exige as it was leaking from the pump.

[david@mediacopy]

Yep, I read on a different forum that there is a valve in the t-piece that can fail and causes the fluid to syphon out. I noticed some bubbling from the nozzles but it wasn't obvious what was going on, but that makes sense.