Ford Fiesta front wiper

Umpalumpa

Hey

Looking for advise
Ford fiesta 2012 from wiper doesn't work when trying to use the washer.
The wipers work when not trying to activate the washer and the back works perfectly

colm_mcm

So just to be clear? you can turn on the wipers as normal, just they don’t come on with the windscreen washer?

Do the wipers work on intermittent, normal speed, high speed etc?

Atlantic Dawn

So no water coming out of the washer?

Can you hear the washer pump try to engage? If you can it's likely a blockage in the nozzles on the bonnet where spray comes out or the hoses underneath bonnet have disconnected, a needle might unblock.

Umpalumpa

colm_mcm wrote: »

So just to be clear? you can turn on the wipers as normal, just they don’t come on with the windscreen washer?

Do the wipers work on intermittent, normal speed, high speed etc?

Yep and yep

Umpalumpa

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

So no water coming out of the washer?

Can you hear the washer pump try to engage? If you can it's likely a blockage in the nozzles on the bonnet where spray comes out or the hoses underneath bonnet have disconnected, a needle might unblock.

No water coming out the front and can't hear the pump trying to engage

tcawley29

Umpalumpa wrote: »

No water coming out the front and can't hear the pump trying to engage

Clean the nozzles with a needle. Failing that trace back the hose from the nozzle, on some cars there is a valve that operates left and right where it breaks into two parts. Disconnect that and get someone to try the water again and see if any comes out the hose itself. If so you can get a valve from a scrappy handy enough.

colm_mcm

tcawley29 wrote: »

Clean the nozzles with a needle. Failing that trace back the hose from the nozzle, on some cars there is a valve that operates left and right where it breaks into two parts. Disconnect that and get someone to try the water again and see if any comes out the hose itself. If so you can get a valve from a scrappy handy enough.

But if the pump isn’t making noise then the pump isn’t working.

tcawley29

colm_mcm wrote: »

But if the pump isn’t making noise then the pump isn’t working.

Apologies misread what he said. Thought he said he could hear it.

blackbox

If both the wipers and the washer are not working it sounds like a switch problem.

colm_mcm

Sounds like the wipers actually work. OP is very unclear.

Umpalumpa

colm_mcm wrote: »

Sounds like the wipers actually work. OP is very unclear.

The wipers do work when I turn them on but if I want the front washer to work nothing happens where as before when I pressed the front washer the water came out and the wiper worked at the same time
Hope that is clearer

Cheers

colm_mcm

Does the rear window washer work?

Umpalumpa

colm_mcm wrote: »

Does the rear window washer work?

Yep

colm_mcm

I very well may be wrong here, but as far as I know, that model Fiesta uses the same pump for the front and back windows (motor just turns in opposite direction to do rear screen) which -along with the fact that the wipe function isn’t working when the front wash is avtivated - would lead me to think that the wiper stalk is at fault,


Open to correction obviously.