Steve's 987 does not have Litronics since it doesn't have headlight washers.

I switched the window washer fluid for my cars to a winter version today. I just let the sprayers go until they ran dry, then filled. Discovered that the 986 holds more than one bottle of the stuff, while the 987 holds less than a bottle. Hooray for the 986! Then again, my 986 has headlight sprayers while my 987 doesn't, so maybe that's the reason.

Cars factory equipped with Litronic/HID lights have headlight washers and a larger capacity reservoir.

Minus 40 degrees... Is that Fahrenheit or Celsius?

You're right, that's the reason his 987 has a smaller reservoir.

I've only used my headlight washers once. Luckily, I had the roof up. They did the WHOLE car. Lots of pressure.

I had just detailed the car for a drive down to Palm Springs and was setting the Cruise Control on Highway 5 (I won't mention what I set it at ) and hit the headight washer by mistake. Not only did it spray the car, the hose came loose and drained the resevoir!

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BoxsterBob - San Carlos
I had just detailed the car for a drive down to Palm Springs and was setting the Cruise Control on Highway 5 (I won't mention what I set it at ) and hit the headight washer by mistake. Not only did it spray the car, the hose came loose and drained the resevoir!

...hmmmmm sounds like you had all systems set to GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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The 986 does have the factory litronic lights, and washers. I guess i'll have to borrow someone else's similarly equipped 987 to do a fair comparison.

Guenter you should try the washers after one of the spray nozzles has broken off. Not only do you wash the whole car, but also surrounding cars and low flying planes

Just checked the capacities in the 987 manual.

Regular headlights - washer fluid is 0.66 US gallons
Litronics (and washers) fluid is 1.59 US gallons - no wonder there's enough for a complete wash job - including low flying planes.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/02/2012 10:09PM by Guenter in Ontario. (view changes)