Washer pump went on my 106 a while back.
Replaced it with one from a breakers yard. They originally tried to charge me more than a new one but thats another story.
The new (to me) one conked out in the recent wet weather here in NE Scotland so I decided to investigate.
The car's had some sort of knock to the NSF as I can see the wing's off a scrapper and there is some red overspray on the NS headlight.
The PO (or someone) has scotchloked in a couple of spade connectors to fit a washer pump the car's loom didn't have the correct pump for.
Scotchloks - Gah!
Out comes my multimeter. +12v and -12v are duly supplied to the spade connectors. Must be the pump again.
I spent an afternoon stripping the 2 pumps I had, prising apart the casings and rubbing rusty bits with wet and dry and cleaning up the commutators.
To no avail. The pumps still don't work on the car. In despair, I wire them up to a cordless drill battery and they work fine. Seems the spades on the car will provide enough electricities to excite the meter but not enough to power a pump.
I butcher the crappier looking of the 2 pumps and bodge it to make it make contact with the terminals in the old forlorn connector on the car that doesn't fit. The pump works beautifully.
I went to the Scrappy on my way home armed with a pair of sidecutters and scoured all 106s, Saxos, 206s, Xsaras and likely looking Renaults for a washer pump with the same connector as my car.
No such pump exists. Not even on a 106 the same year and colour as mine.
Undeterred, and having been an owner of French tat before, I cut a connector the same as the 2 pumps I already have off a 206 and took the pump with me for good measure.
£2 lighter I rallied home, picking up some heatshrink cable sheathing on the way.I cut off the old connector and the Scotchloks, then cut the loom back to where the conductor wasn't too black.
A soldering iron, wirestrippers and judicious use of a hairdryer (kept in the boot of the MX-5 you understand) later I had quite a professional looking bodge and a working washer pump.
After a quick lesson in polarity I even had the switch operating the wash/wipe on the correct end of the car.
Well done me. Is this a mod?