E39 winshield washer nozzles

"RichK" wrote

You English guys and your quaint language: "valve". I presume you mean switch. The answer is no; it comes on (at least in my E34 and E46) with the ignition switch just like the exterior rear-view mirror heaters.

Floyd

You Floyd guys and your lack of language knowledge: "valve" - he means an electrically operated VALVE - such as a device to open or close the flow of water through the washer nozzles. d'uh.

Sounds like a perfectly logical and well constructed question to me - I'd have to guess your reading comprehension isn't all that high.

I was thinking the same thing, but as a colonist, what do I know about the quaint way you guys butcher the language? ;-)

Well that's a fine how-do-you-do!

You're butchering the language, and you're not even from the Motherland, you're a local.

Actually, the most common use of valve that I know of - as an electrical engineer - is the term for a vacuum tube. Remember them?

And if you remember the *CONTEXT*, the OP is talking "electrical" thingies, not water flow, so up yours.

Floyd

I remember reading a few years ago that some Brit police force was equipping itself with Skodas. It was asked if they were the 16 valve versions, and some wag responded, "yes, 8 in the engine, and 8 in the radio."

Thank you, and good night.

Really? There is no water flow through the electrically heated windshield washer nozzles? Hmmm... imagine that.

Well, actually, there *is* none through his. That was his originbal complaint. But there is supposed to be.

-Fred W