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HOSE between spare wheel and washer container
kathawkephotos - June 27th, 2013 at 05:21 PM

Hey all,

Does anyone have or know where i can get one of the hoses that goes between the spare wheel and washer container?
ISP is out of stock and i haven't found any at swap meets....

It would be nice to be able to wash the windscreen haha!

waveman1500 - June 27th, 2013 at 06:44 PM

Those things are rubbish, put in an electric washer bottle. Unless your car is a 100-point concours trophy winner, you'll never regret it!

vw54 - June 27th, 2013 at 06:56 PM

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Those things are rubbish, put in an electric washer bottle. Unless your car is a 100-point concours trophy winner



yep 4 sure but put the hose on and hide a small washer motor down low where it cant be seen the in line universal pumps are 10 bucks or so from super cheap or Repco

grumble - June 27th, 2013 at 07:57 PM

2.5mm wiper/vacuum tubing is available at Repco or Bursons buy the metre,I used to purchase it by the roll.

kathawkephotos - June 27th, 2013 at 09:09 PM

Thanks for te help guys, that'll definitely give me something to do tomorrow :)
waveman1500: it is all stock/ trophy winner at the moment, but if it becomes too convoluted, i may have to go with the motor option i think... we'll see how i go eh?

cheers all :)

68AutoBug - June 27th, 2013 at 10:06 PM

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Originally posted by kathawkephotos
Hey all,

Does anyone have or know where i can get one of the hoses that goes between the spare wheel and washer container?
ISP is out of stock and i haven't found any at swap meets....

It would be nice to be able to wash the windscreen haha!


Does Your water bottle fit into the spare tyre like a beetle one??
I think it sits in the boot, on the side..??

how long is Your hose..??

I may have one here..
I should have one somewhere as I was going to use one in My beetle, but went electric instead.. not sure if it will be long enough??

If Your car is Great and All original... then nothing looks more out of place then a generic square water container... lol

LEE

vlad01 - June 28th, 2013 at 09:34 AM

what year is your car?


if its 72? onward then its easy as there is an electrical switch in the washer stork already.
71 and before is a pita to convert the existing switch to electric. I stuffed many dash switches for this and in the end I gave up lol

if you don't care about the looks mount a push button in one of the spare holes in the dash, easy!

or if you want original, get new hoses, keep the air pressure hose off the tyre when not in use and connect it when you want to drive and use it. will safe guard against a random hose coming off/bursting in the car and dumping all the water inside and the hoses will last a lot longer.

A clever thing to do is a get a SMC or Festo inline pneumatic ball valve on the tyre end of the line and you can switch on and off between use.

line this :tu: And you can get versions that release air from the non supply side which will dump the air from the bottle when turned off.

http://www.globaljetclub.com/image/cache/data/p1/838-500x500.jpg

1303Steve - June 28th, 2013 at 09:54 AM

Hi Kath

A club member did a how to on fitting a electric washer switch into the stock wiper switch.

Steve

Pfeffernuss - June 28th, 2013 at 06:46 PM

I have one, PM me if you're still in need

68AutoBug - June 28th, 2013 at 07:19 PM

Well thanks for that Steve..
I hooked up a temporary washer system [electric] to get My car passed in 2005 [blue slip]
and since I just tell the mechanic I don't have a working washer..

and they have never said anything.. lol

but I'll do that to a spare wiper switch over the wet weekend..

just a note.. Don't go asking for a micro switch as they are a special switch... rectangular in shape [roughly] and have screw holes and a very small button protruding out of it..
so the switch is large enough to be mounted with scews
but the micro bit is the small button..

I have a collection of those small switches.. from Dick smiths when they sold good bits..

cheers

LEE