I recently ordered a new set of washer jets for my 02 X-Type, the ones mounted on the hood or "bonnet", and am wondering if there is any trick to removing the old ones and installing the old ones. I am going to pick them up at the dealership on Tuesday, just wanting to figure everything out before I try to install them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Will

 

The windshiled (screen) washer jets or the headlamp washer jets???

What exactly is wrong with them?

 

the ones for the windshield. the nozzles are broken where the rubber hose meets the plastic piece under the hood. the previous owner tried to fix them with electrical tape, to no avail. they don't spray and just dribble on my hood when i try to wash the windshield. just trying to figure out how to replace them.

 

Havent replaced mine but lookfor clips on the new ones and work it out from there in reverse?
[Edited...misspeltt sum off thee wurds]

 

YOU TAKE A SMALL STANDARD SCREW DRIVER AND PUSH IN THE THE ENGINE SIDE OF THE HOOD ON THE TAB, AND THEY POP RIGHT OUT. WHEN YOU GET THE NEW ONES IN YOUR HAND YOULL SEE WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT AND POICK UP A INLINE 1 WAY CK VALVE TOO AS THESE BREAK OFF TOO.THE BIGGER FUN IS GETTING THE LITTLE PIECES OF BROKEN PLASTIC TUBING OUT OF THE HOSE, USE A PIC!

 

Brutal is absolutley right! I just went thru this, the plastic must get very brittle with age and the heat. My clips on the old one actually broke off and the jet just fell out. Just becareful not to damage your hood. But as Brutal said, you will see how they come off by looking at the new clips. The parts in the hose, be carefule getting them out - I actually broke part of the hose and no wit is just long enough to make things work. I will replace it when I get out to the autoparts store again. Good luck!

 

funny my washers broke yesterday on my 2002 3.0 thanks for the post guys

 

Mine were broken when I bought my Jag 2 1/2 months ago. I was trying to figure out how to fix them, but I guess Ill have to break down and buy new ones from the ***********.

 

has anybody tried "cleaning" them???? They just might be clogged.....

 

BROKEN. Hose has one jagged piece of plastic in it, while the opposite matching piece of jagged plastic is still on bonnet(hood). Was thinking about super-gluing it.

 

ooops, missed the BROKEN bit, it must have been followed by too many other words i didn't read. chose to drink and skip every other word.

Glue won't work. But you can have fun trying.

 

its a JAGUAR not a damn Pontiac, for the love of GOD, fix it right

 

hahahahahaha! too damn funny!

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Said I was thinking about it. lol

 

lol damn 75 post in 2 days,,,,,I need a life,, well at least more work.........

 

lol.....what life? Your life is here...i got something like...like well a bunch of post in over two days..and more beer in my belly......and...and more something else in my pants too and it and doo-doo....hahahahahaha....

I hear ya, so what do you do in the real world out side this forum?

 

Hes a Jaguar Tech. You guys should have fun comparing notes.
Nice ride Brutal. (change your IMG to img)

 

Ide tell you, but Ide have to kill you.........master jaguar tech...

 

ah..cool...say, what do you jaguar boys use these days to read the OBDII codes?

 

I use a small $60 Mac tools scanner.....lol
unless its Jag spec, now that I got the img down maybe I can get the damn size down too, I just tried but still to big and now that we're