VW washer fluid - only applicable if running Winter Pack?

[em2evol]

VW stuff costs about the same as other stuff but smells loads nicer I think so it's a no brainer for me!   

[rskardon]

I've used Halfords apple stuff for about 2 years now and mine havent blocked at all,

R

[xxx_mojo_xxx]

Sometimes all of this does make me wonder... if manufacturers scaremonger people into buying their "official" stuff 

[TomB]

It does happen, I've seen clogged up hoses at work quite a few times.

You find a hard blob of blue (its always blue!) stuck up the tube, this happens when the screenwash goes back to gunk at the bottom of the tank.  Most of the time the problem can be fixed with some boiling water and a minute with the pump on, but it can set like plastic in there if you don't use them often.

A few years back on SCN, one of the users with a Yellow Ibiza filled up with Halfords screenwash, used it and found the green colouring had dyed his paint.  No polish could remove it either, I'm sure they had to pay up for a respray in the end!

[DanoGTI]

Well the irony is that I've filled the tank with regular (non-vw) water 

And I've noticed that my jets are blocking up  Not fookin happy.

Suggestions as to how to clear them?

Looks like I'm gonna need em over the next few days with the snow too.

Fook

Dan

[TomB]

Hot water is your friend, take the jets out and put them in a bowl of hot water and blow out the gunk, and fill your washer bottle with hot water and start the pump.  

[DanoGTI]

Ahhh, that could be good news. How do you remove the jets?

Dan

[DanoGTI]

scratch that - sorted in the dark!! 

Think it pretty much sorted though hard to tell in the p1ssing rain, and it was dark!! 

DAn