Rain Sensing Wiper Speed

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teamster

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Hey folks! I've got a sort of question regarding the rain sensing wipers on my '17 Screw. I live in Seattle, where it's an omnipresent drizzle from around October to May every year. I've noticed that even in light drizzle, the rain-sensing wipers start going crazy fast even when set to the lowest setting.

Sometimes I can get them to calm down and slow back to a normal pace by turning the wipers off entirely and resetting to the first click. Anyone have a similar experience? I'm tempted to just turn off rain sensing, but it's a genuinely useful feature when it's properly calibrated to the amount of precipitation.
 

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Just had some rain here in SoCal and I experienced the same thing where even the lightest drizzle randomly caused the wipers to go crazy fast.
 

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I feel everything that has rain sensing wipers does that. I turn that shit off and manually use what I want.
 

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Same thing happens to mine to some extent. Im going to clean and wax my windshield so it stops making noise.
 

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I’m in Seattle as well, mine does not do that. I do polish and seal the windshield every year not sure if that has something to do with how much rain the sensor will actually sense…
 

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if you have Forscan try setting this to disabled:

726-34-02 xxxx xxxx x*xx
Speed dependent wipers: 1=enabled, 0=disabled
 
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if you have Forscan try setting this to disabled:

726-34-02 xxxx xxxx x*xx
Speed dependent wipers: 1=enabled, 0=disabled
Does this also disable the rain sensing? Or does it only disable the variable speed for the wipers, and leave the rain sensing intact?
 

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I find it woks well except in a drizzle.
 
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