Windscreen Washers

[Diesel21]

On my 2010 x5 the water jets for the windscreen are only firing up the screen around 3rd of normal power, any clues please ??

[Greydog]

Clogged pump filters would be my bet, some screen washes leave a scummy residue that clogs the filters not restricted to BM's I have had it with Merc and Volvo as well

[Diesel21]

What can i do to sort this ??

[Greydog]

Just looked on realoem your car has 2 pumps item 5 & 8 filters 6 & 9

It looks very similar to mine you need to almost empty the washer tank to save losing to much fluid (that or park over a drain) take out the pump and wash the strainer/filter and put it back straight forward enough job

[Diesel21]

are these filters on the water tank itself sorry Greydog ?

[Greydog]

Afraid so I did mine when I was down to almost empty on the washer tank. Both my filters were clogged with a white scummy gunge, not difficult to clean just a pain having to almost drain the tank. It was a year ago I did mine.

You can see the filters on the drawing they push fit to the bottom of the pump