Those stupid auto wipers

[Captain Jack]

Does anyone else hate their automatic wipers? They seem to always wipe at exactly the wrong time. If it's drizzling, they are going on full blast, when it's pouring, they go on strike. I've cleaned the part of the windscreen where the sensor is and it's on its original windscreen, so the sensor itself hadn't been disturbed.

On my Accord, I had a 'sensitivity' setting for the auto wipers but they were generally useless as well.

Is it possible to "convert" auto wipers into normal interval mode - perhaps with some help from PP2000?

[FarmerPug]

i believe the pp2000 can adjust the sensitivity, but i love my auto wipers i have always thought they do it just right, they do drizzle right at a slow speed with no irritating click noise that intermittent wipers do, and when there is heavy rainfall they go like mad.

[steve_earwig]

9 times out of 10 they're ok, it's that 10th time they could do with an off switch. Incidentally, I notice it says if there's a fault with the system it reverts to a conventional intermittent, so I reckon what's needed is a switch to introduce such a fault...

[FarmerPug]

its a smart idea, but there really should be a sensitivity button somewhere easily accessible in the car for the wipers.

[steve_earwig]

Perhaps a variable resistor in the sensor wiring. Hmm, might need PP to set it to over-sensitive first...

[FarmerPug]

ill need to look at the pp2000s options.

[mjb]

i believe the pp2000 can adjust the sensitivity

Where did you get that idea?

[FarmerPug]

someone said that.

[Doggy]

That would be me...

Can't remember the options exactly, but I think there were several.

[FarmerPug]

i was also told it would activate the sat nav, still havent tried, and dont really car about the sat nav no more unless i could get one for about £30 as a cheap expreiment it would just be a waste of money.

[406Iain]

I dont use mine,but I make a point of telling my Mondeo driving friend it has them.Stingey Ford.

[FarmerPug]

ah well it goes without saying that auto wipers and lights are a great bragging point when discussing with your mates who has the best car.

[steve_earwig]

As I've probably said too many times, my mates here run a spares shop and garage, most of the bragging centres around who's car goes wrong the least

[omega]

Does anyone else hate their automatic wipers? They seem to always wipe at exactly the wrong time. If it's drizzling, they are going on full blast, when it's pouring, they go on strike. I've cleaned the part of the windscreen where the sensor is and it's on its original windscreen, so the sensor itself hadn't been disturbed.

On my Accord, I had a 'sensitivity' setting for the auto wipers but they were generally useless as well.

Is it possible to "convert" auto wipers into normal interval mode - perhaps with some help from PP2000?

mine work fine and i think they are a good idea.
but there again i have the superior D8

[FarmerPug]

What can possibly go wrong with them, they are just dependant on a sensor, these things still worked fine even when the rest of my cars bsi controlled stuff went mad.