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Glad you got your washer wires sorted Graham.I had a go at this washer pump wire thing this evening and the solder heat shrink butt connectors were crap and didn't provide a very strong connection, well not enough for me to be confident. Also, the heat shrink didn't seem to grip the copper wire well enough either and the solder seemed to grip around the wire rather than work its way through it, so you'd still have uninterrupted strands running all the way and therefore still a risk of capillary action.
Another thing to take into consideration for anyone trying this is that the OEM wires only just reach, so splicing into them can reduce the length and cause a problem with the connector reaching the pump. It can be made even worse depending on what connectors you use because it bends against the washer bottle.
I ended up inserting some new wires to increase the length and terminated each wire with bootlace ferrules which creates a pretty tight clamp, I then used regular butt connectors. So each wire has four bootlace ferrules and two butt connectors to get through, plus more anti-moisture paste in the pump socket and all connections wrapped with electrical tape and then heat shrink over the each section of joins.
If water wicks through all that then I think Jaguar will have some explaining to do. I didn't bother with the other wires, they are all very tight and I'd had enough for one evening because I still had my damn brake pad sensor to look at. Still haven't readdressed my door seals either.
To finish the evening off, some little ***** threw a stone at my living window for no reason other than to be bad, was bloody loud and has left a slight chip. Couldn't chase them as my wife was out and the children were in but the little pricks didn't realise my dashcam was still rolling in my car and they walked right past it. The Police think they know who they are, who ironically showed up a few minutes later because the neighbour across the road saw someone outside my window with a torch and called them (it was me inspecting the window haha). I saw the little shits debating doing something to the neighbour's car but they chose my window instead. When I checked the footage I wasn't surprised at what I saw.
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As for the young scroates - I'm betting they'd be the first to call foul if anything was done to them - ar5eholes!