retrofitting headlight washers

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <34E9ECD2.B501C97B@nh.ultranet.com> Huw Powell writes:

> I have long contempletd this project for my coupe.  Seems to me to be
> fairly simple, sort of.  1.  Mount a pair of normal windsheild squirters
> (about $8 new?) in the bumper in front of the low beam or between the
> two lenses.

Won't do any good at all.  Have you stood outside a car with headlight 
squirters and seen the sheer _FORCE_?  Windshield x 10. 

> 2.  Try to run it in parallel off the existing windsheild
> washer tank and pump.  3.  If not enough pressure, take a spare tank and
> pump from the junk parts bin and find a place to mount it, run it
> electrically in parallel off the existing windshield pump.

Don't forget that headlight washers usually only engage when the lights are 
on.  That blast of force uses a _LOT_ of water in a few fractions of a second.

> haven't btdt yet, but someday?  Right now I just keep a foam brush in a
> cut oen bottle of WW fluid by the front door - swab those suckers
> whenever they look grimy.

Well, as a driver of a German car you should use the right tool - a 
'Fliegerfetzer'.  It's a small, hard, yellow synthetic sponge.

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club