Accord coupe - washer fluid container

Any time you have snow you are pretty much out of luck to
survive 3000 or 5000 miles on one fill of the washer fluid.
I am in Chicago so every winter there is a problem with
snow+salt on the road. Washer fluid is used up pretty quickly.

Well, I do not have checking washer fluid level in my routine.
So yes, I fill up the reservoir when it is empty...
Do not pull on the side of the road - just drive to the next
gas station and buy the bottle, pour it and dispose...
Yes, I travel mostly in the city-suburb area so I do not
risk being in the middle of nowhere with no fluid...

 

What are you going to do when it doesn't fit?

 

You are so pessimistic
Why would it not fit? It does fit Canadian version, right?

In a worse case I will try to return it to the store
or if this idea does not work, sell it on www.eBay.ca

 

Have you ever looked in the engine compartment of any car made in the last
twenty five years? There won't be enough free space around it for anything
bigger.

The canadian version will have a different engine compartment layout around
the reservoir.

 

Yes, I have looked there in several cars

Actually, washer bottle is usually located outside of the
engine compartment, between passenger fron wheel plastic skirt
and the front bumper. Very, very low, almost in the bumper.

Not necessairly.
How can you be so sure if you did not inspect them two
to compare their engine compartment?

 

You can see it here on the right of the picture:

http://automobiles.honda.com/images/2008/accord-sedan/interior-gallery/gal_lg4.jpg

Above AC button, to the left of "Mode" button, on this model.

Peace,
Polfus

 

Here's a view on a V6 Accord--the bottle with the light blue cap:

http://z.about.com/d/cars/1/0/u/x/08Accord_v6engine.jpg

Peace,
Polfus

 

Yep. Right smack in the middle of the worst of the Rust Belt.

There isn't any. Believe me, I've checked.

I'd have to phone a Canadian Honda dealer (which I can do if you wish).
Or I could check the wreckers. Accords are a dime a dozen in the
wreckers up here (although '03-'07 might be a bit too new and hard to
find just yet). A washer bottle and level switch can't be more than ten
bucks.

If you're serious, I can search some wreckers for '03-'07 washer bottles
for you. You'd have to pay the shipping (just like eBay). Whether it
would fit behind the US bumper rebar is another story. US bumper rebars
are different from Canadian ones (2.5mph vs 5 mph) and may even be a
different shape.

Dom's Auto Parts in Courtice Ont. tends to have a a good selection of
newer cars. I could check there first. They're big so they tend to get
first pick from the insurance writeoffs.

That's certainly the reason.

After 17 years of doing this I'm not too worried. I can't swerve THAT
hard and not lose control.

 

You can't see the washer bottle in that pic. Just the filler neck.

Besides, the '08 is a different generation from Pzsemol's '07.

 

True, my man.

Was just a general pic to get the idea how cramped it may be for th larger
bottle...I admit I don't have a clue especially since my car is in a parking
lot a few buildings away from me. Its 27 degrees and I shall not be
venturing outside to check a windshield wiper fluid reservoir this evening,
if you know what I mean.

Peace,
Polfus

 

Piss & moan in Usenet about how Honda doesn't care about its customers
and various "design flaws"?

Just a guess.

 

Here is the key to this entire thread, "should". You're insisting the
universe should be other that it is, which is known as "musterbating" by
Al Ellis (RIP) and his followers.

This is not to say Honda couldn't or wouldn't change things in
subsequent models - we know they do, but an existing model is a fait
accompli.

 

Damn straight! It's all the fault of TPTB keeping normal citizens like
us off balance so they can keep control and bleed us dry. i.e., part of
the shock doctrine.

In the hot dog example, you have to buy 3 packages of franks and 2
packages of buns to come out even. It's a conspiracy at the highest
level, I tell you!

 

Here's my Canadian one-gallon bottle.
http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/misc/90-93_teg_ww-fluid_bottle.jpg
Bumper has been removed.

It's tighter than tight in there with the bumper on.

It's 5 degrees right now as I type. Not fun out there.

The most I've done in the last two months is drill some holes in the
wife's right-front signal light to let out the moisture that's suddenly
been accumulating in it. This is a Toyota by the way...

 

It's the propane sellers who are at the heart of this particular
conspiracy. We all know it.

 

Thanks, but I was wondering about 2004 coupe without navi.
Did they have heater mirrors in Canada back in 2004?

 

Wow...I never knew they were under there like that..the 2.5L just fits in
the engine compartment, IIRC...not big enough to require the "under the
bumper" housing.

Thanks for that pic...very illustrative and specific. You didn't take that
obviously just for this thread...

And I shall go so far as to say that it appears that there is NO WAY that
will fit inside the engine compartment of Pz's 2007 Accord.

I feel like someone is slapping me around when I go out in this weather..I
swear if I could hibernate....

Then drill *more* holes in it...heh.

FWIW: the scariest car I ever drove was a 1987 or so Toyota Supra.

I actually pulled over and told the dude I didn't wanna drive it any more.

And another quick Toyota story is I always liked the way the original
Corollas felt with the old stick shift..that was a fun car.

Where are you anyway? Near the border I would imagine? Minnesota? Michigan?
( hope I spelled 'em right )

Peace,
Polfus

 

Mine is '04 coupe, unfortunatelly

And yes, what is on the picture is a filler neck...
The bottle is down behind the front bumper corner.

 

Hah! That's a gas!

Peace,
Polfus

 

Yeah..but check it out:

If you remove the 2.5L reservoir bottle and mount a 4.5L replacement under
the bumper, then one would have room to install a little area for putting
hot dogs and buns together in that same area. Maybe a small toaster oven
that's been hollowed out, to simply hold the items in a metal container that
can heat up from the engine's heat. Cooks his dinner there on the way
home...you've seen it before...but at least now there will be a definite
space for this side project under the hood.

Only problem is that I think that most recipes for hot dogs use US
measurements, and if the engine puts out B.T.U.'s or heats up in Celcius
then there's gonna be calculators involved.

Not to mention that IIRC, only 1 package of buns and 1 1/2 packs of hot dogs
will fit U.S. model Accords....so there's gonna be at leat 1/2 package of
hot dogs that will be left over. And a package of buns.

Why can't Oscar Myer design a hot dog package with *6* hot dogs in it, not
4? Is it so hard to include the extra 2 hot dogs?

And why hasn't Honda considered changing the front bumper engineering to
allow space to go ahead and cook the extra two hot dogs, even if we would
have no bun for them?

You can CLEARLY see that Honda DOES NOT CARE about the public or else they
would design an Accord that could *nourish* the driver after he completes a
trip.

Whew...I'm gonna go get something to eat...

Peace,
Polfus