For some reason Ford decided to use a plastic hose for the wiper squirters on the C-max, which may work if the hose was static, but here the squirters are mounted on the hood, so the hose must flex every time the hood is opened and closed. When I saw the plastic hose I thought it was just some plastic conduit over a rubber hose, but nope, there is no other hose inside. They really just used plastic. Thanks to their design decision which probably saved them less than a buck and helped boost some nameless VP's star in the company, there was an inevitable leak, right where the hose has to flex. Not a huge deal, but annoying when I have to find this out the hard way, with a dirty windshield and no squirters to spray it with (fortunately I had a case of unsweetened seltzer water on hand which was handy).
To hopefully fix this, I ordered this kit, which has an assortment of connectors, but I only needed two of the the 1-1 couplers. The kit looks similar to many others on Amazon, and works well. The included connectors went right into the remaining hose without much complaint. I measured the inside and outside diameters of the stock hose and it was 7mm outside and 5mm inside, though it is corrugated.
The install was simple aside from a crazy double reverse latching hose clamp, which surely deserves a design award. I had to set a flat screwdriver in a vice (set to pry one side open) while using another flat screwdriver in one hand (to pry the other side), and held the clip in the other hand, in order to open it up. The only thing that makes sense is that Ford has access to 3 handed alien tech, likely through their connections with the lizard persons...who I assume also have 3 hands. Oddly the other hose clamps were of the simple (human based) one side clip design, so I'm not sure why they made this one extra spicy:
To hopefully fix this, I ordered this kit, which has an assortment of connectors, but I only needed two of the the 1-1 couplers. The kit looks similar to many others on Amazon, and works well. The included connectors went right into the remaining hose without much complaint. I measured the inside and outside diameters of the stock hose and it was 7mm outside and 5mm inside, though it is corrugated.
The install was simple aside from a crazy double reverse latching hose clamp, which surely deserves a design award. I had to set a flat screwdriver in a vice (set to pry one side open) while using another flat screwdriver in one hand (to pry the other side), and held the clip in the other hand, in order to open it up. The only thing that makes sense is that Ford has access to 3 handed alien tech, likely through their connections with the lizard persons...who I assume also have 3 hands. Oddly the other hose clamps were of the simple (human based) one side clip design, so I'm not sure why they made this one extra spicy:
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