Re: Smoking nozzle

["John A. Virnig" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>For months, my wife
>has been telling me she see's smoke coming from the engine compartment.
>Each time, I go for a test run, check the engine and find nothing.  Today,
>finally she tells me exactly where the smoke is coming from - the
windshield
>washer nozzle!  Weirdest thing.  There's white smoke wafting from one of
the
>nozzles on the driver's side.

>I checked my Bentley's and it doesn't give any detail on the washer system
>so I tried to pull the tube out of the nozzle but out came this little
>electrical dohickey.  What the hell is that?  Looks like some kind of
relay.
>Seems unnecessarily complicated.  You'd think you have a bottle, a pump and
>two nozzles but the BMW system has all kinds of wires and relays.

A friend of mine had a problem with the washer pump on his Ponitac Grand Am.
We pulled out the switch in the dash and the pump switch had no less than 3
resistors, 2 computer chips and about 50 contact points on a 1"x2" printed
circuit board.  $85.

John Virnig
'97 328is

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