Before I drilled and mounted a speaker in the passenger side dash of my 110 (1992) the front windscreen washers were working, but now they've stopped.

Checked the fuse, fine. Then took the hose off the valve coming from the washer bottle in the engine compartment but nothing squirted out (it could be blocked before that point though). Needless to say, I'm a little baffled at this stage.

Am thinking that's it's either a loose wire that I knocked when fitting the speaker, or the windscreen washer pump is faulty.

Where is the washer pump on my vehicle exactly?

Hoping that I don't have to remove part of the dash again :scratching_chin:

Gaffa taped the washer stick to the on position and started multimeter testing the two pumps attached to the water bottle. As I was doing so they started working again!

I find this more annoying than them not working because I have no idea what the initial problem was or whether it'll occur again.

Any ideas?

Oh, before I forget, here's how to adjust the sprayers:

1) WD40 down hole and leave for upto 5 mins.
2) Find paperclip with equal or less diameter width of hole.
3) Poke paperclip into hole, wiggle to de-seize, turn on washer and get blinded by screen wash. Scream F**K!

Tip: DON'T use knitting needle for adjusting sprayer because they're quite brittle. My needle snapped off (before I thought of WD40-ing) leaving a little annoying piece inside, at which point I screamed F**K again and started seething with self pity.

Fortunately, after turning on the sprayer, the end of the broken needle peeked though just enough to clasp it with some long nosed pliers.

Thanks for listening.

Here's Tom with the weather.

Could be dodgy contacts in the steering stalk

Can't think what fitting your speaker would have done - only thing to do with the washers that passes close is the water carrying pipe. Wiring is right behind the dash so you shouldn't have hit it

Re re adding your first post - dirty spade terminals or other connectors on the pumps themselves? Would tie in with poking them with test probes and them springing into life