as you probally know i have fitted a new washer bottle sensor/float, when starting car up all i get on display is brake light check (normal) but when turning car off i get the washer level low, this only comes up on turning off the car   any ideas  :-? by the way washer bottle is full  :y

have you tested the sensor,,, :-/
maybe faulty

I am getting this on start up, as well as brakelight check and washer bottle is defrosted and full, why?

Vamps wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 03:51:

I am getting this on start up, as well as brakelight check and washer bottle is defrosted and full, why?

brake check would look at the bulb holder ( brown and white wire i think), and the bulbs.
if your water bottle frozz up the the switch may have been damaged.

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if your water bottle frozz up the the switch may have been damaged.

my float switch sensor is new freecall also if the switch was damaged, seeing as its only a float switch on/off i would get the level warning on start up not just on turning car off  :-?

freecall666 wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 06:11:

Vamps wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 03:51: I am getting this on start up, as well as brakelight check and washer bottle is defrosted and full, why? brake check would look at the bulb holder ( brown and white wire i think), and the bulbs. if your water bottle frozz up the the switch may have been damaged.

Errr, that is incorrect...  ...Check Brakelight, if it doesn't go out, will be brake switch.

Brake Light is a bulb/circuit fault.

no ideas about the washer level only coming up on switch off jamie  :-? its baffling me    ::)
and its only on turning ignition off, like the other warnings that remind you that you havent done anything about them, doesnt come up on start up or whilst the car running  :-? :-? 

fiend61 wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 08:28:

Quote: if your water bottle frozz up the the switch may have been damaged. my float switch sensor is new freecall also if the switch was damaged, seeing as its only a float switch on/off i would get the level warning on start up not just on turning car off  :-?

have you had display read on tec2 etc??

no havent had it read --- excuse ignorance but what would that do ?

fiend61 wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 19:46:

no havent had it read --- excuse ignorance but what would that do ?

some faults maybe still in the display, so on switch off it displays them, so may just need a rest

Check the multiplug underneath the expansion bottle is firmly pushed home :-/

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its the washer bottle phil  :y

Can you get a meter across the sensor, just to prove it?

Does sound a bit odd...

ok i have replaced the new float switch with a secondhand one from scrappie and now everything is working fine, as said jamie very odd as the sensorfloat swich is basically an on/off switch  :o
but as said seems to working now  :y
thanks

PhilRich wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 20:50:

Check the multiplug underneath the expansion bottle is firmly pushed home :-/

Would this have been removed for the head gasket work to be done, as mine has only started doing this since I had work done on the car...
:-/

Vamps wrote on 03. Jan 2011 at 21:48:

PhilRich wrote on 01. Jan 2011 at 20:50: Check the multiplug underneath the expansion bottle is firmly pushed home :-/ Would this have been removed for the head gasket work to be done, as mine has only started doing this since I had work done on the car... :-/

yes, it would get more room to get to bolts... its only cliped in. lift up the bottle and have a look.

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Would this have been removed for the head gasket work to be done, as mine has only started doing this since I had work done on the car...

you have lost me vamps  :(
my original post was the washer bottle not coolant bottle  :y

well it is only water ;D ;D ;D

well 50/50 mix antifreeze
       50/50 mix screenwash
so only 50% water but yes water all the same  ;D
just different bottles different uses and different locations  ;D
maybe that was causing the original problem i had them mixed up (not) ;D ;D ;D ;D

my rad not got tap water in, water bot wounder why the dont put heater in the bottle as the have them in the jets???

that would be a good idea  :y

may have to make one ;D ;D got some heater rods 12v to  16v, should not be that hard. ;D ;D ;D

fiend61 wrote on 03. Jan 2011 at 22:15:

Quote: Would this have been removed for the head gasket work to be done, as mine has only started doing this since I had work done on the car... you have lost me vamps  :( my original post was the washer bottle not coolant bottle  :y

My question is the same as yours, just with Omegas there is never a straight answer to a problem, you have to go around the houses to sort them ::) ::) ::)
In essence it needs an electrical circuit to work, if this is broken then the warning will show, low washer fluid.. :)

yup vamps you are correct but my question was that the washer level warning was coming up only on turning off the ignition not on start up or car running and as the float switch is only on/off if the float switch was faulty it wouldnt be making/breaking the contact therefore would show warning all the time
anyways changed float switch again and now all seems fine  :y

fiend61 wrote on 03. Jan 2011 at 22:45:

yup vamps you are correct but my question was that the washer level warning was coming up only on turning off the ignition not on start up or car running and as the float switch is only on/off if the float switch was faulty it wouldnt be making/breaking the contact therefore would show warning all the timeanyways changed float switch again and now all seems fine  :y

IMO the error would not show all the time, If you have an open circuit tail light the ecu notes this and you are reminded about it after you switch off.