heated washer jets?

[divweir]

 i dont have winter pack and my jets are fine
there stuff you put in your washer bottle
its called screen wash and it dont freezzzz if you
put correct amount in

i live in scotland so its been very cold

[Richn83]

Headlamp washers will work on the move or stationary, just idling probably wont have produced that much heat might be worth going for a run until at least the water temp needle reaches the top.  Not suffered from freezing issue with the jets sticking out or in I have avoided using the washers when freshly started for this reason.  Hopefully it will go back in either by itself or on next use.  There is a fuse dedicated to them so might be worth checking that if they dont seem to right themselves.

[Neimad]

Any advice on how to resolve this or is it a case of seeing what happens when the car finally gets defrosted and back on the road?

This happened to me once -- it didn't return to its closed position until about a day later when the ambient temperature had gone up a way.

[Boothy]

I have the heated leather and the headlight washer jets and was led to believe the heated washer jets too. To be honest though I was sceptical as they don't actually seem to do sh*t so I took the jets out to see what was what. They have some sort of electrical connection which i presume is the heating element but there still useless if you ask me. Although being linked the the rear heated screen sounds interesting? Might give that a whirl and see of it improves.

[jmspear]

headlight jets only work when headlights are on, car doesn't have to be moving, just headlights and ignition on and wash the windscreen and hey presto the headlight washers go off as well (at least they do on my car!)

UB7RN The winter pack headlight washers come with the low fluid warning lamp so I suggest you can find the relavnt parts easily enough in EKTA and retrofit, don't know if the car will then need coding to recognise them or not?

[Richn83]

Think car will need coding for them, you can also specify the length of time they activate through VCDS.

[Eddie-NL]

Any idea how easy the low washer fluid warning is to retrofit?  Had this on the mk4 and really miss it.  Can't understand why it wasn't standard on the mk5 ...

Easy to do, full info
http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/335574/2265770.aspx#2265770

[njdudsbury]

Dont worry about your panel on you headlight washer jets. What happens is they get iced up and the ice pushes them out a bit. When they are defrosted use them again and they will return back to their original position. I had this last year when driving up through northern Scotland @ -16 and they were both stuck out and froze solid. The car looked like a kids transformer!!
Hope this helps.

I still havent got a definate answer on how the heated jets work!!!!
Anybody?

[divweir]

eerrrrrr   they dont

[Eddie-NL]

Dont worry about your panel on you headlight washer jets. What happens is they get iced up and the ice pushes them out a bit. When they are defrosted use them again and they will return back to their original position. I had this last year when driving up through northern Scotland @ -16 and they were both stuck out and froze solid. The car looked like a kids transformer!!
Hope this helps.

I still havent got a definate answer on how the heated jets work!!!!
Anybody?

Heated washer jets have a heating element that is wired directly to the fuse box and will remain on while the ignition is on

[damoegan]

heated electric mirrors were standard buddy, not sure if mine has winter pack but as I have xenons so washer fluid warning and headlamp washers and leather so heated seats its rather hard to tell    I have avoided washing the screen when freshly starting the car, and usually wait till engine warmed up and have been fine with the headlamp and washer jets not being frozen, but temps down in kent have only been down to -2.5 since I dug it out of the snow, so god knows how it would cope with being tup north! 

My washer jets hav not worked for over a week, even with neet screen wash (ok upto -16). And thats with heated washers etc 

[dindi_boy]

I checked out the car again, now that the big thaw is on, and the panels have returned to the closed position by themselves! It would appear that I have a self-healing GTI - result!

Thanks for taking the time offer help and suggestions.

[mortygttdi]

get a kettle of hot water and pour it into the washer jet slowly don't try and push it in but rather pull it out.

Once its free it'll go back in itself.

Darren