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Old Jul 16, 2022 | 10:26 PM
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Rear glass washer nozzle?

I had to remove the rear wiper arm tonight and would not budge so I used the tool that removes wiper arms and crushes the nozzle. I have been searching for a replacement with no luck. First off are these replaceable and if so where can I obtain one?
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Old Jul 17, 2022 | 08:24 AM
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The rear wiper arm can be a completely stubborn bugbear to remove --- when I replaced mine I was extra careful and came up with a shim to insert for prying but to no avail because it slipped and buggered up the nozzle head anyway LOL at that point I went full barbarian and yanked that fugger off with brute violence haha then went to the junkyard to get a new motor because that seemed the easiest and cheapest solution, still working fine.

Perhaps I could have just bought a replacement nozzle by itself? I didn't think I could but now looking and they are out there:



Made of the finest Chinesium though so may leak or be unreliable?


Mine is a 2006, the pre-facelift cars have a different design with a different nozzle:



 
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Old Jul 17, 2022 | 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Oldboy Speedwell
The rear wiper arm can be a completely stubborn bugbear to remove --- when I replaced mine I was extra careful and came up with a shim to insert for prying but to no avail because it slipped and buggered up the nozzle head anyway LOL at that point I went full barbarian and yanked that fugger off with brute violence haha then went to the junkyard to get a new motor because that seemed the easiest and cheapest solution, still working fine.

Perhaps I could have just bought a replacement nozzle by itself? I didn't think I could but now looking and they are out there:



Made of the finest Chinesium though so may leak or be unreliable?


Mine is a 2006, the pre-facelift cars have a different design with a different nozzle:

Thanks yes this is what I’m looking for.
 
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Old Jul 17, 2022 | 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Oldboy Speedwell
...Made of the finest "Chinesium" though so may leak or be unreliable?
- Yet another classic OldBoy terminology worthy enough to submit that one to Miriam Webster




Sorry - I forgot to hit the "submit" ---- I'm still laughing....
 
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Old Jul 17, 2022 | 07:04 PM
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@alconk Are you performing a rear wiper delete?

Chinesium can be problematic but sometimes it's so difficult to find Europium.
 
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Old Jul 18, 2022 | 03:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Here2Go
- Yet another classic OldBoy terminology worthy enough to submit that one to Miriam Webster




Sorry - I forgot to hit the "submit" ---- I'm still laughing....

The term is so funny because it is so true, but it is like totally tragicomic with a certain sense that the world has gone to hell-inna-handbasket as far as the quality of many goods goes, and requires extra effort to find something solidly made.

As much as I enjoy coming up with neologisms, can't claim that one, it's been in common parlance for a while now, think I maybe first saw it used at r/justrolledintotheshop...


 
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Old Jul 18, 2022 | 04:12 AM
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In the US, societally speaking, we tend to want things cheap and fast - quality be damned. It's false economy on multiple levels, unfortunately.

in a vain attempt not to completely hijack the OP's thread, what is the ID of the hose that supplies washer fluid to the rear nozzle?
 
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