29-10-2015, 09:14 PM
Does anyone know if you can switch auto wipers off..?
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29-10-2015, 09:17 PM
If you unplug the sensor on the windscreen it will revert to intermittent wipe i believe.
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29-10-2015, 09:21 PM
the stalk on the right hand side on the steering wheel turns the wipers off
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29-10-2015, 10:44 PM
(29-10-2015, 09:17 PM)Niall Wrote: If you unplug the sensor on the windscreen it will revert to intermittent wipe i believe. Tried that... Nope. It doesn't work 
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29-10-2015, 11:22 PM
They are a good feature, but just work slightly to poorly to be 'great' too random, too short an interval on them most of the time.
30-10-2015, 09:17 AM
The worst part about 306 auto wipers is that you have to turn them on everytime you start the car...that's not how automatic works...
I really missed auto-wipers using the Volvo for a week! Intermittent was always either too slow so you couldn't see anything between wipes but constant was too fast OR they were too fast in light rain and screeching across a fairly dry screen. Not to mention not giving a 'mental' swipe when a lorry sprays over you from the opposite direction. Though the Volvo stalk works upside down as well so I could never get the right setting first time anyway. Honestly it wound me right up!
imho, it's just an auto-adjusting optical speed sensor.
My dad's Maestro has an adjuster in the stalk. [attachment=25625]
It goes, it stops (as reqd).
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30-10-2015, 12:45 PM
On my old ph.2 the autowipers were fantastic. That doesn't seem to be everyone's experience though.
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30-10-2015, 04:39 PM
Phase 2 auto wipers are pretty good. Maybe not as great as some more modern where you can adjust the sensitivity. But definitely a feature I like on my car.
22-02-2016, 12:30 PM
my wipers only work on the second setting, doesn't matter if its tipping it down or bone dry. any ideas?
22-02-2016, 01:29 PM
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