Hi all,
I went and bought 5 litres of pre-mixed screenwash from Tesco earlier (they didn't have any concentrate left). I thought the washer bottle would take a couple of litres (my old Clio had quite a small bottle), and then I'd take the rest indoors.
I got bored after putting about 4 litres in the bottle How big is the washer bottle on the 406? Mine's a 5-door face-lifted saloon with 1.8l petrol engine (if that makes a difference).
Cheers
Graeme
Washer Bottle - Capacity
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Re: Washer Bottle - Capacity
There's two sizes, either 7.5 litres (off the top of my head) or 11 litres, ut you can always squeeze another litre in the filler neck and pipework
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mjb wrote:There's two sizes, either 7.5 litres (off the top of my head) or 11 litres
I hate dirty windscreens too, but wow! They should have made the tank smaller and the engine bigger!
Cheers
Graeme
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Re: Washer Bottle - Capacity
Mine is huge, it gets filled up with the hose when i wash the car!
Re: Washer Bottle - Capacity
V8s don't tend to go too well transversely mounted - there's no room left for the gearbox I'm happy with my V6, but I guess the extra room could be used for a honking great turbo or 2 thoughhighlander wrote:I hate dirty windscreens too, but wow! They should have made the tank smaller and the engine bigger!
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Re: Washer Bottle - Capacity
performance upgrade empty washer bottle add one liter of water 10mph faster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Washer Bottle - Capacity
i only fill mine every six months with water and a drop of fairy liquid
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I used to do that but if I did that here it'd already have been frozen solid for a month. Works better with the real thing in it too.
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Re: Washer Bottle - Capacity
I remember buying the FTO for her indoors and proudly cleaned the car up and checked it over and thought "I'll just top up the screen wash"........
This is when it started pissing out all over my feet turns out it had been in a mild front end crash and was most likely imported as a damaged repairable (much cheaper) anyway with the screenwash bottle being right out there at the front it got punctured half way up and was not noticed by the bodyshop consequently you could only drive about with 1ltr of screenwash in toe
carry on.........
This is when it started pissing out all over my feet turns out it had been in a mild front end crash and was most likely imported as a damaged repairable (much cheaper) anyway with the screenwash bottle being right out there at the front it got punctured half way up and was not noticed by the bodyshop consequently you could only drive about with 1ltr of screenwash in toe
carry on.........
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