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Sven--don't know where you're at. I'm sitting here in Norway with my US export 850 wagon. My washers front and back quit too, and like you, I could hear the motor running. But after ten minutes of driving around the rear one began to squirt, but not the front. Messed with it, to no avail. Finally, the weather warmed above freezing a couple of degrees and as a last desperate act I pulled the stalk a couple of times and got a little dribble. One more time and a full squirt. For one, I had summer wash in the reservoir, and when it got down to about 14F above, I think it froze. The engine heat in the motor compartment wouldn't thaw it though, because I think it was frozen between the sound dampening insulation under the hood and the hood itself. The next thing I tried to do was insert a tube down the washer filler spout and siphon out the summer washer fluid which is only good for a few degrees below freezing. But wouldn't you know, Volvo put a screen at the bottom of the big filler tube, and you can't get a hose into the tank. You either turn the car upside down in your lap to drain it or you pull the hose off the top of the little thumb-size reservoir you can see beside the filler tube, attache another tube and run it into a five liter container, pull on the stalk, and pump it all out. Check your little reservoir. It's clear and you can tell if there's fluid in it or not. Mine was dry, which meant I may have a bad check valve that let all the fluid drain back into the tank--in which case when you pull on the stalk the pump will run for some time before it starts squirting again. I think mine froze because it's been above freezing for a week now and I've had no problems with it. Dick
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