How do u use the headlight wash?? (newbie sorry)

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10-16-2008, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by benstone' post='694519' date='Oct 16 2008, 01:26 AM

Is there a way you can turn off the headlight washers?

Two pieces of duct tape should do the trick!

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10-17-2008, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Miikka' post='694460' date='Oct 16 2008, 09:36 AM

Amazing ...

I think I am in the wrong forum totally

E60 is just a car for me (when I get it); okay, a really nice car but still a car. I can always drive it through a washing machine if it gets dirty on the hood. And besides, when it gets delivered in January, that is the time of the year in here when it will get dirty faster than you can say Bayerische Motoren Werke - so it doesn't matter if headlight washers will wash hood also.

its not getting dirty any time soon...how do you pronounce "Bayerische Motoren Werke"

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10-17-2008, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by C's Bimmer' post='694487' date='Oct 16 2008, 01:06 AM

Not sure about you guys, but when my headlights are all covered up with mud, I pull over, throw a towel at my wife and tell her to get out and clean the headlights. I don't care if it's hailing, raining or snowing. If it's not sparkling, I tell her not to bother getting back in the car until it's perfect.

thats why you hide all the mods from her riiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhttttttttt

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10-17-2008, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Miikka' post='694817' date='Oct 16 2008, 07:29 PM

So if always using "auto light mode" then they basically never spray in LCIs with Xenons? And to make them spray you actually have to change to some other light mode? Hmmm, doesn't sound very clever actually. I wonder why they didn't implement in that way that it won't spray for every time but for example every 5th time or something like that.

Actually they do only spray every third time.

But when you shut off the engine, the calculator will reset.

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10-17-2008, 07:43 AM

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Actually they do only spray every third time.

But when you shut off the engine, the calculator will reset.

Ah, okay. Then it makes sense actually. They are saving the water but still washing them at least once in awhile. I have similar design with my current car with Xenons and it seems to work pretty well. Of course during Finnish winters, after awhile the dirt just sticks so badly that I need to wash the car completely.