Was Folding Mirror Question - Now just chat about my new car!!!

[golfman]

Got the car back from the service.  Turns out they weren't folding in as much as they should be so they're fixed now and fold in a decent amount!! 

If someone has moved them manually, they get 'upset' apparently.  So the garage manually moved them in and out a few times which appears to reset them and now they work properly! yay!

Headlight skoosher question now...

Manual says they come on every 5th time you use the window skooshers, but I'm not convince mine have ever come on yet.  Any tips for using them, i.e. is there a minimum time you should hold the skoosher lever back for before they kick in etc??

Cheers!!
Just stand outside your car with the drivers window down and pull the stalk 5 times or whatever goes and you will see,you don't have to pull hard just little pulls are fine!!!

scott

[Britishlion]

Chumba

Would you mind taking a photo of how far they fold in for us, I would be interested to see !
 

Not a problem... might need to wait until the weekend though... bit dark and foggy out just now!!

Thanks mate, just pm me if other people aren't interested !

It is really foggy hey !

[Chumba]

Just triple checked... headlight skoooshers definitely not doing anything!

Didn't think to get the garage to check them either... typical!!!

Guess I'll check the fuses when it's daylight and hope that's all it is.  Can someone point me in the right direction (i.e. where are the fuses on the car I've just bought and which one may have blown etc!)  

[182_blue]

Why are you calling them Skooshers, please please stop !, oh and you do have your lights on when trying them dont you ?

[Chumba]

Yup, lights are on.

Thought everyone called them skooshers.... They skoosh the lights after all! 

[182_blue]

How do you know you even have headlight washers ?, your car already had DSG paddles and no DSG

[Chumba]

 

Good point!

It has the bits on the bumper and has the winter pack fitted.... So they should be there!

[182_blue]

Good point!

It has the bits on the bumper and has the winter pack fitted.... So they should be there!

LOL, worth a proper look just to make sure, the winter could have frozen them up and then damaged them when used.

[182_blue]

Where are you based, perhaps your car could do with a VCDS session

[Chumba]

Based on the edge of Glasgow, near Blantyre.

What's a VCDS session? 

[Chumba]

*update*

Found the fuse for the skooshers and it's blown.  Hopefully replacing that will sort it.  A wee search reveals they can blow if you try to use them when they're frozen!
 

[mortygttdi]

Its a common problem with the headlight washers, because they work from the pressure of the water if they freeze then the fuse blows to save the washer pump getting damaged.

Darren