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    Leaking Windshield Washer Sensor? Here's Your Fix

    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
    Last edited by slownrusty; 10-02-2016, 05:43 AM.

    #2
    awesome find!!! i modded my old 323 washer reservoir to fit the lx unit. (luckily i never had issues with it leaking)
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      #3
      Neither of mine are leaking yet but thanks Yasin. Sticky this sucker.

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        #4
        Glad to help out my friends and community.
        Thanks for making this a sticky.
        Yasin

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          #5
          Thank you for taking the time to patiently go through each one until you got positive results Rusty!


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            #6
            No problem! Glad to be of assistance to the community.

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              #7
              I have the whole bottle with switch and motor, though the retention tab on the lid is broken. It works fine.

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                #8
                Price?

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