So I think I have some water in my windshield washer fluid tank leftover from this summer, and now with over a month of below freezing and snow I can't spray my windshield. I put some de-icer washer fluid in, but I don't think that it did anything. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Remove the washer bottle and put some warm water in it and drain it all out.

 

That's what I was afraid of LOL. What is the "proper" way to do it?

 

The other way is to suck the fluid out after it warms up.

 

I could but that won't be for a few more months, and it's getting hard to see

 

Model year?

Pull back the passenger side wheel well liner to access the bottle. Barrow the wife's hair dryer and heat the bottle up. Could even just shoot the heat down the refill point . Still no joy? Heat up the lines leading to the nozzles. Still nothing? Get a meter out and check for 12vdc and ground at the pump motor on the bottom of the tank. If you see both with the switch on and it's still not working, change the motor.

 

Park in a heated parking garage for a few hours to let it melt then suck it out.

If you have nothing to suck it out with, just run wipers to spray it out and you'll have the cleanest windshield in the world. Just becareful not to overheat or burn it out by running it to long.

 

get it into a shop if u can leave it over night. then remove all the fluid. other than that im sure few bolts and a hose u might end up breaking off the connection. I don't even understand why people even use water

 

Hey good news. It got to about 40 the other day so i got to empty my tank on the way to work. Still some ice on the bottom but eyery thing seems to be working now. Thanks for the help.

 

I use the washer fluid that's good for 30 below year around. I've been doing that since I had mine freeze up a few years ago after I had been to a quick lub place and they toped it off/filled it with plane water. since then I make sure I have it full when I take it in for an oil change.


To get the frozen blob out I tried the hair drier, all that that did was melt the top of the tank so that the cover didn't fit right. I ended up getting a bucket if hot water and poured into and over it until the water melted then I used a hose to siphon the water out then filled it with fluid that was good for -30.