D3 Windscreen Washer Bottle

[pedro54]

Just picked up a 2008 D3. The fill tube is disconnected from the windscreen washer bottle.

What is involved to reconnect the filler to the bottle? Do I just have to remove the mudguard liner, if so, how is this done?

[bbyer]

I assume that the black plastic vertical fill tube with the Blue cap is still there. It just slides/clips into a hole in the top of the bottle. Take the headlight assembly out to get access, and then you should be able to slide the tube back in to the top of the bottle just by feel.

I assume that the tube is just displaced from the bottle and it is not the bottle that is sort of located behind the fog light being cracked?

The washer fill pipe is the black plastic tube with the corrugated ninety degree bend running down to the right of the orange radiator fluid expansion tank. The disconnect is down below so to speak where the black meets the white.

[pedro54]

Thanks.

Yes the filler is there it is just disconnected. now to remove the headlight assembly. Apparently the washer bottle was replaced before we bought the vehicle. Whoever, I think the local dealer, replced it did not reconnect the filler.

[bbyer]

Removal of the grill first and head light assembly is a 3 minute no tools task once you know how. If you do not know how, try to find someone who does as it is easy to do, but difficult to explain.

It took me about 3 months to figure it out, maybe more, as I had no one to show me and written material is limited. Actually for two and half months, I did not know it could be done - thought the 3 was a sealed box with no user serviceable parts within. In-spite of the jpg below, that turns out to be not totally accurate.