[s-cars] headlamp washer update

[Lee Levitt]

Here's a quick update on my no wash situation.

Several (perhaps many!) pointed out that the headlamps have to be *on* for
the washers to work. That I knew :)

Andrew also suggested that if the washer fluid was low, the windshield would
be washed, and the headlamps would not. I have not been able to either
confirm or deny this. My wash fluid was indeed low and I put a gallon in.
Washers still did not work. :(

I resigned myself to doing an R&R of the headlamp washer pump, called Mack
at Clair to order one. I called him from the car, left a message and then
tried the washers *one last time.*

They worked!

Either they heard me talking with Mack...or my cleaning the washer units on
Saturday did the trick. During my weekly car wash, I pulled each of the
washers away from the headlamps, and I guess that cleaned the shafts
sufficiently to remobilize them. They must have been clogged with grime and
grit.

What do you use to lubricate your shafts?

Anyway, problem solved!

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant