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Old Feb 24, 2015 | 07:16 AM
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Today morning all of a sudden windshield fluid refused to come out of both outlets in my ES350 Year 2007. it happened first time. all i see are few drops coming out of outlet holes but they are not sprayed on windshield at all. I tried to see if there is any ice blocking it but it looks good.
I live in Toronto, temperature for last few nights here is freezing cold around -25C (-9 F). I always use the proper windshiled fluid and never use water
Any help in this regard would be appreciated
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Old Feb 24, 2015 | 07:19 AM
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It still could be some ice somewhere in hoses, or debris.
Do you hear the pump working?
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 07:07 AM
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thanks LjeksesES, pump seemed to be working, it turned out that extreme cold weather caused this issue. This car is parked outside in the driveway and temperature went down to -25C at night, which caused ice frozen somewhere in the hose thus fluid not being sprayed on windshield...
Surprisingly this never happened in my old Camry :
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 07:27 AM
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I've read a number of reports on BMW and Audi forums of washers clogging up. In those cases the owners were using Rain X washer fluid. Any chance that's what you have? It is a known issue and you could probably find some information with a search.
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Old Mar 9, 2015 | 12:16 PM
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Hi LexBob2, you got it right, it was the washer fluid. I normally use a fluid that is blue color and weather cold level -35, recently I bought another one that is green color and weather temp -40, both fluids got mixed, i.e. there was blue already in it and I poured green fluid to top it up. Plus it was extreme cold in those days... the weather is less cold since then and I never had the problem again.
I guess in future I will try to use same color fluid so problem woudn't occur

thanks
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