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Washer fluid warning light (Gen 4)

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03 Nov 2024 18:32 - 03 Nov 2024 18:32 #258162 by Motacilla

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fordem wrote:
I've never owned a car that had one.

Just the opposite for me: in >20 modern cars, the J is the first I've had that doesn't have such a light.

I thought maybe no-light was a Japanese thing -- the Jimny is my first Japanese car -- but a quick google shows that many other Japanese models have this light.

So I don't know. Up until now I thought it was universal, since apart from the safety factor running your washer pumps dry can damage them.

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03 Nov 2024 18:53 #258167 by DrRobin

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My other car (2001) has a washer fluid low light, it comes on all of the time as I have a small leak somewhere and I am sure all of the other lease cars I had over the past 20 years had a washer fluid light, so I had just assumed my Jimny would have one, but I have never checked.

Martin, is your buzzer the pump complaining as it runs dry?

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03 Nov 2024 19:47 #258169 by mlines

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DrRobin wrote:
Martin, is your buzzer the pump complaining as it runs dry?

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04 Nov 2024 20:26 #258190 by Dan

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First thing that I did when I got my gen 4 from the dealership was skoosh off all the supplied screen wash and put my own in. There was no warning light.

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05 Nov 2024 08:08 #258194 by lightning

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Why would you do that. Surely screen wash is screen wash, l've never found any that's noticeably better or worse except for the "Winter" type that supposed to not freeze.

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05 Nov 2024 13:01 #258196 by Lambert

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I thought that until I used some cheap car plan stuff that coagulated into a gell in the lines on both jimny. The gelled goo then fed bacteria and went black and was a real pig to remove.

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