you are right, they spray washer fluid on your headlamps

Im not sure if all the model years are the same, but on my 03 vector, they spray on the 5th time you pull the washer stalk.

Hope this helps

btw, the 9-3 in the picture does have the washers

 

thanks for the response. That is very useful information. did you have a chance to look at the picture? Does this car have them?


Thanks again,

J51

 

i'm glad my '03 came with the ones that pop up, not those stupid wart looking things.

i never use them anyway, i try to tap the washer handle so they don't come up. if i hold it for more than a second or two, they activate and usually cover my hood in fluid.

 

I agree. The "warts" are ugly. I wish my 07 had the flush mounted popups.

 

I have the "Popups", hold the stem back a bit and they fire away. Sure it gets on the hood, but if your using your washers...your hood is already a mess with the same stuff your washing off the windscreen.

 

i love the pop ups..

I told my friend.. if he looked at the light long enough it would start to clean itself..

He didnt belive me and obviously i was lying. So he stared at the lights, while i pulled the stalk and got him in the face. Didnt even know he was still starting at it,

The pop ups sure fooled him.

 

thanks for the response. That is very useful information. did you have a chance to look at the picture? Does this car have them?


Thanks again,

J51

Yes it does. This car has the 04> washers. The 03 versions were hidden below a plastic cover and popped up when operated.

 

I like the wart shapped ones. I know lots of euro models that have the pop up models that gum up and dont work after a few years. I like the way it makes the front end look more styled.

I like being the odd one out.

 

I dont really know if I like the way that they look but I would rather have them as I can see that the pop up ones would have a tendancy to stay stuck in there as you said.

Just one more thing that can break.

 

Can they be disabled somehow? Or maybe plug the hoses to them? I personally don't need my headlights squirted.

 

I vote for the warts.:lol: My 9-3 has them and they work quite well and there's less to break. For the OP, they squirt just like the windshield washers do, but on every 5th (or 10 minutes?) pull of the windshield washer stalk. They fire whenever the headlights are on, regardless of switch position. So on a 'stock' car, they will *always* fire. One added bonus of the DRL disable is that the sprayers won't fire if the lights are off, which is the way it should be. Saves from always making a mess of the hood and saves a ton of fluid too...

Some people say these things are useless, but I disagree. For anyone that lives where the roads are salted in the winter, they are fantastic for clearing off caked-on salt spray and do make a difference.

My wife's car, the '05 Volvo S40 in my sig, has pop-up-style washers. Yes, it looks just a bit cleaner, and kids think it's a great trick.

But we've already had to have one of the mechanisms replaced because it wouldn't close all the way when it was cold outside. I also worry that heavy snow or ice could 'seal up' the sprayers and that could lead to lots of little stripped plastic gears.

I like the warts!

 

I'll take the warts. You always see broken headlight wipers on 900s and 9000s. The 9-3 pop ups will probably break eventually too.

 

i hope mine do, i never use them anyway. i know there's a tech2 setting you can alter that disables them completely but i'll see to that some day in the future when i have the time to get my DRL disabled.. if that's even possible anymore

 

I have the popups and I could see them being 'frozen stuck' during the winter months. Only had my car since May.
I find them 'gimicky' but fun to spray people with..LOL.
I don't know how useful headlight washers are unless you're in a rally-race and you're getting Mud on them..at night... then likely you've already got 4 large Rally beams on the hood or roof of your car ?!?