Hi All - With our cars approaching their 30th birthday (!), we all know that many replacement parts are NLA and these parts are certainly ending the end of their life cycle - something we can all relate to and can certainly make ownership frustrating.
One thing that grinds my gears is when I can't fix something that is broken. Point and case is the leaking windshield washer bottle due to a deteriorated grommet for the level sensor. Interestingly, we are very fortunate that our cars have this feature, many new car today don't even have this feature, so its a shame to not have it working due to a simple grommet failure.
I recently spent a half day at the scrap yard and pulled about 6-7 different fluid level indicators from various cars (I certainly got some "funny looks" as I had them spread over the hood of a crashed Acura!). After measurement and evaluation, the '13-'14 Mazda CX5 is a perfect sized replacement (part number shown below) and the early 2000s Maxima is a decent substitute, but is a little larger in diameter and would require making the hole in the bottle reservoir larger to accommodate it.
If your actual sensor has gone bad, it is a sealed unit that cannot be repaired or fixed and I noticed that the unit out of a late '80s or early '90s 626 will work perfectly.
Hope this helps.
My best,
Yasin
One thing that grinds my gears is when I can't fix something that is broken. Point and case is the leaking windshield washer bottle due to a deteriorated grommet for the level sensor. Interestingly, we are very fortunate that our cars have this feature, many new car today don't even have this feature, so its a shame to not have it working due to a simple grommet failure.
I recently spent a half day at the scrap yard and pulled about 6-7 different fluid level indicators from various cars (I certainly got some "funny looks" as I had them spread over the hood of a crashed Acura!). After measurement and evaluation, the '13-'14 Mazda CX5 is a perfect sized replacement (part number shown below) and the early 2000s Maxima is a decent substitute, but is a little larger in diameter and would require making the hole in the bottle reservoir larger to accommodate it.
If your actual sensor has gone bad, it is a sealed unit that cannot be repaired or fixed and I noticed that the unit out of a late '80s or early '90s 626 will work perfectly.
Hope this helps.
My best,
Yasin
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