Rear wash problems the common fault

Yeah best place to check is under the boot trim. Undo all the screws and give it a good yank, its tough but does come off. Make sure you cable-tie the hose back on though because it'll keep popping off.

Chriswaite130 said:

Yeah best place to check is under the boot trim. Undo all the screws and give it a good yank, its tough but does come off. Make sure you cable-tie the hose back on though because it'll keep popping off.

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You can't cable tie it. Its a solid plastic fitting.

The other place they come off is in the engine bay underneath the air box.

bundy1981 said:

do the rear wash cables come off in the engine bay. i've had 4 seats 3 ibizas and one leon and all the ibizas have had this issue. Bad design especially in this weather

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Yeh they come off in the engine bay under the airbox, in the rear wheel well and at the actual boot.
Really crap design. I haven;t used my rear washer in about two years as you never know when it'll blow again.

bundy1981 said:

Cheers mate i'm going to take it to a garage if its the engine bay as i dont want to mess about in there. Well i'm changing my car type altogether in july

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TBH the engine bay connection is probably easier to sort than the boot one.

Guide for the engine bay

You know what the airbox is? - Right hand side of the engine bay behind the battery?
Take 4 or 5 screw out of it, remove airfilter. Remove 2 or three bolts on bottom half of airbox which secure it to the car
Look in the hole you've created for two pipes
Join them back together

Refit airbox.

Its probably the easiest job you'll ever do

Mine went last year i think its a tighter fit on the 1.9 tdi. I ended up taking mine in to be fixed, reconnected in two places, cost about £40 quid i think

Can the car fail an MOT because of this?

I think your ok on the back wash. Is the front wash working ok ?

Thanks yeah fronts are fine just the back must of popped off again and its getting mot'd on Saturday. Will try and get it sorted for then anyway

Chriswaite130 said:

Thanks yeah fronts are fine just the back must of popped off again and its getting mot'd on Saturday. Will try and get it sorted for then anyway

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Hi, the rear one doesn't come into the mot!!

well this happened to mine for the second year in a row last week. last year it was the one at the air box and this year it was above the rear drivers side wheel arch spraying water into the boot. both times i have taken it to the dealer and it was fixed under warranty. But when i picked it up last week the leak in the boot was fixed but the washer fluid was now coming into the passenger side under the glove box go the car 100m down the road from the garage and just turned back when i found this. now guess what the fluid is spraying back into the passenger footwell so its going back in. why can seat not just make a fix for it as its a very common fault

Interesting ? When mine came off they would not cover it under warranty and i got charged

krussel said:

Interesting ? When mine came off they would not cover it under warranty and i got charged

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i'd of given someone an earfull over that one, but what you can call a permanent fix is still a guess, other than shrink wrap..

mine has come off for the 3rd time under the bonnet now, and the car is only 18 months old, nice to see they can do a good job on getting it right!! or maybe not as it seems,

Mine went a week ago. It popped off under the bonnet, connected it back up and I sprayed it... and bang it went in the boot.

I had to take all the trim out and popped the back one on again.
Then today it went again. Fixed it under the bonnet and once again I sprayed it and a little bit sprayed onto the rear window and it then started pissing in my boot. I actually cba to fix it again!

They should sort the issue, but I guess its rather hard to fix! They'd have to remove every pipe and replace it!