I'm in need of a drivers side headlight washer nozzle cover. Any help appreciated or a source where I might get one.

Thanks: Chuck

 

I lost one of these once and believe I bought a replacement from SNG Barratt. I seem to recall it was something like $35.

 

SeismicGuy,
Thanks Pal. Went to their site and was able to order. In Stock was listed at $220+, part as a "special order" was listed at $20+/, guess which one I ordered.

Chuck

 

$20 sounds like a great deal given the age of the vehicle. This is my problem with my 2005 XKR as I intend to be buried with the vehicle (just kidding). I have always tended to keep vehicles a long time as I get "attached" to things I like. The downside with a car is that parts and servicing get to be more and more of a hassle and expense and with cars like the Jaguar, parts were expensive to begin with.

 

I bought one from them but can't figure out how to put it on. All the pins and covers line up but the fit is loose so nothing keeps it in place. Any suggestions?

Joe

 

Epoxy?

 

my understanding is that you can’t glue these because the mirror thing needs to be able to move in order for the 2 pins to find the 2 holes that they go into on the headlight structure.

i, personally, think that this is a pretty terrible piece of engineering. Unless the point was to design a part that they could sell hundreds of at exorbitant prices because they fall off.

 

I believe headlight washers are a pretty useless piece of hardware. The aerodynamic shape of the glass covers make washoff easy. Treat them with a bit of Rain-X and bob’s your uncle.

 

I have a pretty detailed photo of the mechanism in post #3 of this thread https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xk8-xkr-x100-17/headlight-washer-nozzle-cover-replacement-261168/

 

I agree Monarch. I'm going to try one more thing to keep the cover on the washer post, if that doesn't work it sounds like it's time for some kind of adhesive, maybe silicone. That should hold it in place but still allow it to be removed, although I'm not sure why it would have to be removed.

 

Hey Seismic, judging by that photo I think one of the sprayer cover things is missing from mine. I doubt those can be purchased.

 

Yes it's one of the dumbest designs I have ever seen. The little nub piece at the very end of the "nozzle" piece is what holds the finisher on. What would have made some sense would be if that plastic nozzle piece could have been bought separately but not the case. You need to buy the entire powerwash unit just to get what should have been a $5 piece of plastic.

 

Greetings all. As I've posted elsewhere I finally got my car to pass smog so now I'm working on all the other "little" things that need to be done and I'm back to this issue. Has anyone tried heating the end of the "nozzle" and trying to open it up a bit more so as to make a tighter connection with the cover part? I'm thinking of trying that plus I thought of a feature that was on my BMW K1200LT that came in very handy. The BMW folks built the mirrors on the big touring bikes so that they would pop off if you hit something while splitting traffic or just bumped into something. They also wisely had a safety cable attached to the mirror and to the mounting frame on the bike so that should you get a bit too close to a car and your mirror popped off it would just hang there until you stopped and popped it back in place. I've thinking about epoxying some sort of cable to the cover and then to the inside of the headlight housing so that the damn thing doesn't go MIA should this happen again. As Seismic and Chuck noted these things are a/ getting hard to find and b/ starting to get very expensive. I keep looking into these 3d printers as an investment considering how many of the parts on these cars are plastic, not made very well and falling apart after a short period of time. The seat release escutcheon for example. I have one that is fine and one, the driver's side, that is falling apart. I found one on ebay for $200. WTF as the "kids" say.

Joe

 

Hello,

I just lost my left hand jet cover, and found that Barratt now only sells them (aftermarket) in pairs for about $80 a pair. I won't buy stolen parts on ebay, and found that OEM Jaguar are NLA anywhere except the aforementioned "Midnight" supplier. Engel Imports (formerly Terrys Jaguar) has aftermarket ones for both sides at $29 and change, each. They assured me that they were chrome on the front and not "Primer" as, apparently, the printed ones are. I'll report back in a few days on what I get.

Best,
Rick

 

Has anyone out there actually replaced one of these things? I'm trying to figure out what it is that holds the cover to the end of the washer arm. The washer arm does not seem to have any pins or detentes or anything else into which the cover can lock. Also the cover has all smooth surfaces and, again, no pins or cams or anything else that would hold it to the arm. So what exactly is it that is supposed to keep the cover attached to the arm???????? Love???????? LOL. AT first I thought there was some part that fit between the arm and the cover that was missing but when you look at the diagram these are the way the parts are shown.


Here's the back of the cover. There's the notch. Another view of the cover.

Here's the end of the washer arm. Another view of the arm.

 

 

Hey Seismic,

Yeah, that's what it all looks like. But I'm still trying to figure out how the cover is held onto the end of the arm. The problem I'm seeing is even if you force the cover onto the arm end, friction will be the only thing trying to hold one to the other. The hole in the cover, as best as I can tell, has straight walls so you're just pushing the arm into it. If it were wider on the inside so that the section of the arm that goes inside could open back up the maybe it would hold it on better, kind of like a ball and socket connection. I don't see anything like that in the cover I have. Have you installed one of these?

Joe

 

The cover is just push on, the 3 slots in the nozzle allow the connector to close the nozzle fitting like a ball and socket. You could always drill through the assembled cover / nozzle mounting and wire it with fine steel aircraft wire.

That ought to stop the bugger from falling off at the first pothole

 

This happened to me many years ago and I had the local shop I was then using do the fix. This entailed needing to buy a completely new powerwash unit and replacement mirror from SNG Baratt and having the shop install (they were a bit pissed that I bought my own parts as I recall). That's when I took a closer look at the gizmo and discovered that the nozzle gismo that holds the mirror on is actually theoretically easily replaceable but was not able to track down the piece being available short of getting an entire new powerwash unit. Moreover I think it is a pita to even get to the powerwash unit and you have to remove the headlight assembly to do so.

 

You can get to the washer unit from underneath the car if you remove the front undertray, it's a bit awkward but hey, anything is better than removing the headlamps.

If you don't care about the washers being functional you could just unplug the headlamp washer pump and gorilla glue the new covers in place.