Member Since: 16 Aug 2019
Location: Cornwall
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Screen wash
Hi all has anybody fitted heated jet washers to front of their vehicle and it wasn’t standard fitting?
Just wondered without stripping bonnet off if they’d work out the packet so as to speak
Thanks in advance
31st Mar 2021 7:49 pm
aja4x4
Member Since: 14 Apr 2019
Location: Westbury
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Its easy to remove the bonnet insulation and check if you have the wiringAndrew
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31st Mar 2021 8:12 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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If you have the wiring, the D4 heated jets are supposedly better.
31st Mar 2021 9:05 pm
DN D3 Decade
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I very much doubt that your D3 will have the wiring, (mine is a base 7 seater, and doesn’t). Do you really need this in Cornwall ? I just put -10 deg C washer fluid in mine, and it has never frozen on me so far, and what with global warming etc. .......Pointless expenditure IMHO. D3 owned from new, P017 brake recall, BAS FBHIC, new FBH, LR013487 oil pump, new water pump. RRS front lower suspension arms. New suspension compressor/ relay. New Denso alternator. CuNifer rear brake pipes. New GKN rear propshaft. New HPFP belt & tensioner. New A/C Condenser.NO WARRANTY for many many years.
31st Mar 2021 9:59 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
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Hi
Mines a base model and indeed didn’t have the wiring , I retrofitted mine with the D4 heated washer jets
The engine bays fuse box needs to come out and a loom to be made up
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31st Mar 2021 10:50 pm
Patman
Member Since: 16 Aug 2019
Location: Cornwall
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DN wrote:
I very much doubt that your D3 will have the wiring, (mine is a base 7 seater, and doesn’t). Do you really need this in Cornwall ? I just put -10 deg C washer fluid in mine, and it has never frozen on me so far, and what with global warming etc. .......Pointless expenditure IMHO.
Hey mate believe or not I thought it needed as it’s gets vv cold on Dartmoor where I work. But I won’t be requiring not worth it.
1st Apr 2021 1:53 pm
aja4x4
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Even if your washer jets are clear the resivour will still freezeAndrew
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1st Apr 2021 2:04 pm
James W
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In winter I use near-concentrate levels of washer fluid so it doesn't freeze (well maybe it would if we hit -20deg as it's rated to). It's more expensive than watering it down but not as expensive as crashing with a screen full of winter muck. Plus the berry scent is lovely D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
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1st Apr 2021 3:24 pm
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
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aja4x4 wrote:
Even if your washer jets are clear the resivour will still freeze
Well you use screen was mix
I’m not a advocate of heated jets, but I think the theory is that its a
Small hole and external, so first point to freeze
1st Apr 2021 7:00 pm
aja4x4
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But the small pipes going to the jets are also exposed and will freeze easilyAndrew
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1st Apr 2021 7:10 pm
Pete K
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They contain the screen wash which doesn’t freeze
1st Apr 2021 7:29 pm
notyalc
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That heatshot system looks a lot like the hotshot system i had installed in my Subaru outback when i owned one...
Hotshot was from microheat (australia?) and distributed in europe by Webasto..
I bought it in 2005 i think.. worked perfect, easy install, worked in Norway below minus 30 celcius never froze, ( the fluid we’d use was for minus 60 deg celcius though ) and in The summer it cleans also a lot quicker with heated (summer) fluid
Pricing in 2005 was far better... i think i paid around 130 quid
My D3 has the factory fitted system says the spec sheet... never checked....if it is there and working..
Where are the heated units? Behind the sound proofing material?
I still have the hotshot system laying around.... always good to have, seeing today’s pricing, and if some future motor isn’t equipped with such a system (So not for sale )
If someone wants more info about the very easy install, please ask..Best regards
Harold
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1st Apr 2021 9:20 pm
aja4x4
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kajtzu wrote:
If you have the wiring, the D4 heated jets are supposedly better.
Whats the difference? I fitted new genuine washer jets to my D4 and there identical to the ones i have fitted to my D3.
I suppose they could have been replaced at some point.Andrew
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1st Apr 2021 10:17 pm
kajtzu
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Location: Helsinki
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There was an old thread on this forum where someone said that the heating elements in the D4 are better/stronger or break less often.
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.......Pointless expenditure IMHO. 
) and in The summer it cleans also a lot quicker with heated (summer) fluid
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