Removing and installing reservoir for window washer and headlight washer systems — VW
Removing and installing reservoir for window washer and headlight washer systems on VW: 12 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Touareg I (7L, 2002–2010)
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- Hose connections (3) and (4) are marked white or black and must be attached during later installation to the windscreen washer pump connections with the corresponding colours.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers and pull out ignition key.
- Remove front right wheel housing liner. General body repairs, exterior 66. Exterior equipment; Removing and installing front wheel housing liner.
- Remove securing bolts (2) for reservoir (1) in wheel housing.
- Separate electrical multi-pin connector (1) for pumps.
- Pull window and headlight washer systems reservoir (1) backwards (arrow) off filling tube (2).
- Lay reservoir (1) on front wheel.
- Unclip hose (1) from reservoir (arrows) and pull it off headlight washer system pump (2).
- Empty reservoir for window and headlight washer systems, catching the fluid.
- Separate multi-pin connector at pump (2).
- Separate multi-pin connectors (1) at water level sender and (2) at windscreen washer pump.
- Pull hoses (3) and (4) off windscreen washer pump. [Note: Hose connections (3) and (4) are marked white or black and must be attached during later installation to the windscreen washer pump connections with the corresponding colours.]
- Pull reservoir for window and headlight washer systems out of wheel housing.
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