rear wiper washer leak causing bose amp problem on avant

[alfie155]

i came home earlyer on today and as soon as i switched the ignition off, there was a huge stictic like inteferance noise comming from my speakers, so opened boot to find my tail gate was full of water, before hand i did try and wash my back windscreen but no water was comming out, so i removed the panel from the tail gate to let it dry off, but wen i went to test the rear washer, nothing was comming out but seems to be leaking in the feed, and the feed runs above the bose amp and sub and that also feels wet witch will explain the interferance nosie coming from my speakers!

only thing i can do for now is to leave it dry off but my worry is that the amp could short out. my wife will be using the car tommoro and ive told her not to use the stereo for now but i dont thing that will make any diffrence. when i turn the ignition on i think it activates the amp when the stereo is either on or off! thats one one issue i have, has anyone have any suggestions?

and the other issue is the pipe feed around the boot area, could it be blocked or could there be a split somewere causing the leak? looks like i may have to strip the boot, doesnt look like an easy task.

[Two_Stripes]

Think this is a pretty common problem, read about it before. I never use the water on my rear window as mine is blocked somewhere.

[alfie155]

so the blockage is causing it the leak in the boot?

[alfie155]

so the blockage could be causing it to leak in the boot?

im not intending to use it again, im woundering if theres a way to isolate the pump?

[Two_Stripes]

I would have said that a blockage is causing the leak, probably caused the pipe to split

On my last 2004 A3 the pipework actually failed inside the wiper motor (having a rear window sprayer incorporated into the wiper arm looks good but involves more complicated routing). This then leaked into the rear hatch, directly onto the boot lock. Over time this corroded the contacts on the boot lock switch. Whilst away on holiday, it finally corroded the contacts completely, which made the car think the boot was open, which sounded the alarm constantly for a week, flattening the battery completely whilst I was away. That's a pretty common problem on those too.

Do a google search for your thread title and check out results. I won't post links to other forums on here but quite a few cases of it.

[Ben]

It's split, probably caused by a blockage. Search this section thoroughly and you will ting all the info you need.