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Disco Matt:
Very odd problem this - when I get in the car I smell screenwash! It's definitely washer fluid rather than coolant as I've had a quick sniff of the coolant header tank and that's a very different smell, plus the level hasn't dropped.

The smell goes after a minute or two, I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and, if so, did you ever find out where it was coming from?

barmiebrumie:
Juging where the fluid reserviour is it may well be seeping in underneath it & getting into the carpets, take the bottle out & see if its got a leak or even one of the pumps, seen it when people have blanked of the headlamp washer pipe for winch bumpers  :-k


hope that helps



John

mac:
There's a large oval grommet below the washer bottle on the sloping bit of the inner wing where a large loom enters the cabin, I had a water leak through it as it wasn't fitted poperly - may be a washer bottle leak or pump/pipe leak running in through there. You should be able to feel if it's wet above the passenger footwell by pulling the carpet back.

Disco Matt:
I'll have a look. My winch bumper has the headlight washers fitted (as it had a couple of holes to mount them) so there shouldn't be any leaks. The smell seems to come and go, I hadn't noticed it before hence slight worry when I got in this morning and could smell something unusual!

Range Rover Blues:
Could be nothing.  Air enters the cabin at the base of the windscreen, sometimes I smell screenwash and I think it might have been sloshing around since i last blasted the screen.

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