Headlight washers and low washer fluid level warning

[Adrian E]

Hi all

My S8 is going back to the garage who replaced the mirrors tomorrow, as I noticed that the nearside headlight washer isn't popping up at all. The offside is definitely working fine. They had the bumper off and the arch liner out on the nearside to paint the door to remove the scratches.

I dropped in on Monday and they were happy to have it in to have a look, but I need to leave it there for the day as it'll be a couple of hours work.

I gather there's a fairly common issue with a kinked pipe for the headlight washers - does this sound like it's the probable cause? I do wonder if there's been some typical bodgery in there in the past that could do with being rectified properly. Any experience I can pass on would be handy.

On a related (and probably unconnected) subject, I have the low fluid warning light on all the time, despite there being plenty of fluid in there. The washers are working, although don't seem to be all that powerful across all the jets. The car had serious amounts of work done last year by a local specialist, including a replacement washer pump. Is the level sensor part of the pump itself? The garage who did the work have said they'll have it apart if needed, but suggested I let the weather warm up in case it's just frozen fluid in the sensor which might take a while to thaw out. It's less than a year since the pump was replaced, so if it is part and parcel the work should be covered FOC. It's a right pain in the @rse with it beeping every time you start it up and move off!

Adrian