windshield wiper question

[ronstaug]

I have a Smart Car ('08 Passion), love it! Question on windshield wipers. When I put them on #2 slow speed & come to a stop, they stop if it's raining very little. As soon as I stop on accelerator & take off, they resume working. I took a look @ the service manual & couldn't find a mention of this. Doesn't really bother me, but wondering if that's the way they're supposed to work. Thanks in advance, Ron

[jefferios]

Yes, you may also notice when the wiper are on and you change into reverse the rear wiper will turn on. Your driving a Mercedes.

[p1nball]

Originally Posted by ronstaug

I have a Smart Car ('08 Passion), love it! Question on windshield wipers. When I put them on #2 slow speed & come to a stop, they stop if it's raining very little. As soon as I stop on accelerator & take off, they resume working. I took a look @ the service manual & couldn't find a mention of this. Doesn't really bother me, but wondering if that's the way they're supposed to work. Thanks in advance, Ron

That is how they work. Nothing wrong with them.

[johnssc]

The wipers are what is known as "speed sensitive." When you stop they go into intermittent mode.

[SuperGeek]

Rain Sensing Wipers... one of the coolest little features of the car, only on the Passion (and Cabrio?).

Turn the knob to the 'auto' position (from lever furthest down to up, "Auto","Off","On speed low","On speed medium","On full speed") and you get:


Wipers come on automatically when enough water hits the sensor... it's a good judge and kicked on when a truck splashed me one day. In reverse, they'll swipe once if they did the front once, or continuous while you're backing up. Wiper speed varies with amount of water, so you don't have to keep adjusting through the Alabama 2-minute schizophrenic shower. Anything from zero to full speed is automatic... I only have to override it on first morning dew.

Whoever designed that component did a pretty good job.

[kannonvaggon]

If ya get hit with a big bug or a bird bomb the wipers will sometimes give you one nice little swipe, to better spread the yuck across the widest area possible. My wife got that one day and decided it was maybe not such a good idea to just leave the wiper switch in the auto position even when it's a sunny day....

:-)

[BigWarpGuy]

I have the Pure and there isn't an auto position on the wipers. If one has the wipers on high and you come to a stop, it goes into the lower speed till one goes again. I think this is cool.

[mikeeverhart]

HELP, Hello there all, we finally got rain in san diego last night. so i could test my auto wipers. Does anybodys do this too? I was driving with auto on, on the freeway the wipers go slow then fast, or paused then go fast, then pause. Then when stopped at a night, the wipers paused, then start going very fast then pause. At a slow speed under 20 mph the wipers are going very fsat, high speed. I know they might be speed sensored but this is crazy. They go slow when going fast... and pause when driving fast.. then at light stopped, the wipers are going fastest speed.

Anyone else having the same problem? or is something wrong with my wipers? AS most of you know san diego doesnt get much rain here.. so took till now to really see how they work

thanks
mike

[Dunerunner]

I've had this happen several times, especially if there is a lot of road film on the windshield. I hit the washers and generally, it clears up.

[JD10367]

I assume all of this is only if you got this option, with the "hockey puck" on your window, right? If you didn't get that option, I assume you get normal wipers?