OK, this HHR is the wife's puppy. She bought it and she figures she likes it.

Me? I'm the guy that has to do the maintenance and figure this car out. I'm really not impressed with the car but I'll keep it going for the heifer.

She had a little deal with the rear window washer - it dumped fluid all over the inside of the car and not a drop got to the window. I now understand why I had to wire wheel all the rust off the jack when the rest of the tire storage area looks so good.

Went out this morning and took the rear interior apart and found the plastic hose had disconnected from the rubber joint inside the car. Slipped it back together and slipped is the key word. Not the most secure fit. Checked the other side of the rubber and the plastic hose was held on by about a wish. Took a look at the connection at the hatch - plastic hose going into a rubber fitting - and the hose was about 3/4 of the way out of the rubber.

With everything pushed back together, heyyyy, we gots a working washer. Playing with the connections I found they all slipped pretty good even though there was no leak since reassembly. I took some silicone and coated all the connections so we won't have it come apart again.

This design was bound to fail. No two ways about it. My theory is it was just another case of this car being designed to keep dealer service departments in business. I've run across a lot of that on the HHR. Fortunately for the woman I can handle this stuff. Not everyone can.

Wren

 

Fortunately I can change oil in my wife's car. Not everyone can. Who is the man?

 

Gee I like your colorful writing to being with.
Pictures of your problem can explain a lot. You should have posted them.
Silicon is really not a glue. It's more of a sealant. Using crazy glue might have been a better solution.
Crazy glue will come apart in very cold temps thought. Knowing you come from "in the States" really helps where you live.
I'll let others chime in to help you fix a problem that "flooded' your spare tire well with windshield fluid that has isopropyl alcohol, soap and water.

 

Sorry, you lost me when you called your wife a "heifer".

 

You were lucky the connector just separated' usually the hose freezes and cracks when somebody didn't use -20 windshield wash; same thing when the washer starts draining under the radiator, The pump motor bushing freezes and cracks.

 

Don you would think when straight water is used and it got cold it might break in other ares also ?
Just a thought.

 

How many other places between the pump and the spigot? Just the pump and the hose, or do you expect for me to go millimeter by millimeter down the length of the hose? Mine cracked right at the connection to the spigot, I had exactly enough slack to cut the cracked bit out and re connect it.
I have had 3 pumps pee on my driveway, not always from freezing.

 

13 years old and 300,000 miles, Oldblue never leaked a drop. It always had -40 degree washer fluid .
Don’t have a cow man , or she’ll make you a gelding.

 

843de had 3 of his washer reservoirs explode from the cold when your Alberta Clipper hit NC a few years ago.

 

Don , I’m in Ontario, we get those clippers to. And soon