Windshield Washer Nozzle hitting the hood

[ronmanfredi]

Does your Avanti's drivers side washer nozzle hit the hood when it's closed?  My 06 model did, in fact, it appears the factory cut out a portion of the hood and ground down the back side of the nozzle to try and get some clearance.  It's obvious the problem is that either the hood was made incorrectly or it has "dropped" over the years due to a weak structure.  I decide to remove the windshield wiper panels to see what options I had to fix this. 

The factory drilled a 1/4" hole at the top of the panel and stuck the nozzle in it.  In order to lower it, the panel needs to be thicker in that area, so I took a piece of 1/4" thick plexiglass that I had laying around and cut a 4" long strip that I could glue underneath the existing nozzle hole.  Before installing the strip, I trimmed out the existing hole to make it square so the nozzle could drop down through the panel.  Next I drilled the 1/4" hole into the center of the plexiglass strip, which is where the nozzle would now attach to.  The last thing to do was to glue the strip into the underside of the panel.  I installed the nozzle into the plexiglass strip and the placed it into position.  It was a perfect fit, so I glued it in place. 

Here are the after repair photos: