Rain sensing wipers - VW got it wrong

[Mischa]

Yes that's what I've found as well. It's only the very odd occasion where they actually go nuts and I have to turn them fully off.

lol they didnt accidentally build in a function thats what its there to do

[Treza360]

lol they didnt accidentally build in a function thats what its there to do

Random fragments of code gathering together? A soul perhaps.

[DionM]

I think it's also subjective as to "how fast is fast enough" with the wipers. Me, I'm happy to drive with the screen quite rained on. My wife, however, wants it perfectly free of any rain drops. So we constantly fiddle with the setting.

I think it's erratic, but I can live with it. My mother in law just got a MkV Golf (to replace her MkIV) and is struggling a little with the concept ...

[iampivot]

Is it expensive to retrofit a rain sensor mirror?

[Logzy]

Is it expensive to retrofit a rain sensor mirror?

Probably. .

[STV4SYT]

Having driven in a lot of rain last weekend i was quite impressed with the sensors actually. i did have to change the setting a bit. if it was real light drizzle i put it on the first setting as at 2-3-4 it was wiping too much for my liking. as it got heavier i moved it up to the 2nd one. 3 and 4 weren't needed much at all. Definitely better than any other car ive driven with them

[Chung]

Drove the car in some rain for the first time last week, the auto wipers were manageable with a bit of fiddling with the sensitivity but still a little erratic at times.

Having used to the auto-wipers on an X5 though the VW's just don't compare. The X5 doesn't let you adjust sensitivity but I've found its timing is just about perfect and only in very light rain will I find myself having to use the wipers manually.

Having to fiddle with the sensitivy kind of defeats the purpose of having auto-wipers but it's not bothering me too much, besides, it doesn't rain much these days anyway.

[anthony]

I must say that I love my rain sensing wipers on the Jetta,and have had no complaints at all.
In fact little touches like thers,and the automatic headlights were things that made me fall in love with these cars on my initial test drive.

[mark4323]

It's meant to rain in Sydney this weekend, so I'll get to try them for the first time. I'll report back.

[BigMan]

Hey guys

picked up my Golf GT yesterday and was raining in sydney today.

I am experiencing the same problem as the OP.

Just wondering anyone comes up with a fix? Its very annoying at the moment!

Cheers

[7164]

The rain sensors are gay. Mine on my car must be on some mean drugs, i mean that we were driving yesterday down the gold coast, and what was a perfect clear day, not passing through shade, bridges anything, but maybe a fly did a pi*s and off the go the wipers, and when it was thumping down last week, pulled out off the garage do you think they started working..... nup

[VW Convert]

The rain sensors are gay. Mine on my car must be on some mean drugs, i mean that we were driving yesterday down the gold coast, and what was a perfect clear day, not passing through shade, bridges anything, but maybe a fly did a pi*s and off the go the wipers, and when it was thumping down last week, pulled out off the garage do you think they started working..... nup

Seems strange how some of us have no probs at all with this and others do. Mine have always worked fine, just switch to auto setting and the sensor seems to do the rest with a 99.5% result.

Cheers

George

[THR]

The rain sensors are gay. Mine on my car must be on some mean drugs, i mean that we were driving yesterday down the gold coast, and what was a perfect clear day, not passing through shade, bridges anything, but maybe a fly did a pi*s and off the go the wipers, and when it was thumping down last week, pulled out off the garage do you think they started working..... nup

When you start the car you have to turn them off and on again and then they work (at least, this is what I find). Very rarely do they go off unnecessarily for me but on the odd occasion, if the sun strikes at a certain angle, they will.

All in all, I find them very good.

[GTom]

Finally got to test the sensors, they seem to be fine. They also start to work above the magic 15km/h mark.

My only gripe with them is when i went to turn on the headlights manually (The automatic on headlights didn't want to turn themselves on) is the wipers decided they needed to go on full ball!

But apart from that can't see anything wrong with them.

[balkanac]

i never had a problem with my wipers. They never missed a beat. Need to change the blades though