Has anyone rewired your headlight washers so they are switched separately from your windshield washers? In Vancouver when it hovers just above freezing, I use a fair amount of fluid just keeping the windshield clean. Since it is dark when I go to work and back, the headlight washers come on too, spraying huge amounts of fluid out in a burst. I am going through fluid faster than high octane gas!! (and what a ripoff for the stuff too)

What I'd like to do is have the washers so they could switch off, but be able to activate them when I really need them. I know I could buy some cheapo switch at the local hardware store. Hoping someone out there has done it in a cooler true Audi-like fashion.

 

I feel your pain!! Fellow Canuck in Coquitlam. I want to do the same mod for the same reason. Man this thing sucks WW fluid!!

For now I've jusr disconnected the electrical connection at the HL pump motor. Don't know if 2001 model is the same...but on my 1998 the HL pump motor is the upperone on the WW tank. Pump at very bottom of WW tank should be for WW pump.

FYI: Theabsolute best WW fluid is GM Opticlean. Give it a try. Available at all GM dealerships.

 

just re-route the pipes back into the washer tank

 

Hmmmm....would that work with the fuel lines too?

 

My 2000 a4 takes a couple seconds before fluid even starts to spray out of the bumper.You could cut down by just holding washers down for a couple seconds at a time.Mabey you can add a 5-Gallon bucket mod to the forum, seeing where your going is always nice.