Rain-Sensing Wipers question

[Lagg-Alot]

Man so I think I realized something you guys have been saying about the auto wipers I didn't believe before.

These things literally have a mind of their own! I noticed that you actually do have to turn them off then on for them to reset basically! They were going off like crazy in the storm on the way home from work tonight.

When I parked underneath my car port, they were still swiping like crazy but there was no rain hitting the windshield. I was like "Uhh..wtf". I think I'm going to call Mazda NA and ask if I can have the auto-wipers deactivated and intermittent wipers turned on somehow. I'm sure it's only a setting and they change the style of the stalk to show the sensitivity numbers instead of the int. speeds.

I have been thinking about switching back to the old intermittent manual controlled wipers from a Regular Mazda 3. But I have to find out if this can be even be done. I talked to a Friend that has a 2007 Benz and he said the same thing. That Auto Wipers are Garbage. (flame)

 

[J-Villa]

the auto wipers are garbage and I won't get them on another car again.... But they are not so bad that i'd want my old style wipers back. Super low sensitivity and just a little fidanglin' here and there and they work fine

I'm about to remove the rain-x from my windshield and re-do it, but leave a strip a little wider then the sensor all the way down the middle. that way the water doesn't bead up and run off around the sensor...

 

[dkswim]

or you could just tleave a dimond shape over the sensor. that way you have no stripe up your window and the when it gets to the dimond it will fallow rain-x around the sensor. just theroy. but i like the auto i leave it on it was really cool one morning going down the road and someone had there sprinklers aimed wrong and it got my windows and about the time i was thinking about hitting the mist my washers were done. and i was like wow did that really just happen wow thats cool.

 

[imac]

i gotta admit i was pretty skeptical of the auto wipers before i bought the car, but i kinda like them now. haven't rain-xed my windshield so i dont have the sensor problem, tho i do seem to have issues dialing in the sensitivity. no matter how much i change that, the wipers never seem to operate any differently. i guess as far as gripes go its a pretty minor one, so i can't complain too much about it. they've still exceeded my expectations so far.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

I e-mailed Mazda NA and they told me that I can have the sensor shut off all together. I think I may do that and just use the wipers as intermittent (that is if it's possible)..

 

[GoFast]

mine dont bother me

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

^Thanks.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

So...

I've asked the dealership repeatedly and have gotten nowhere. You cannot alter or adjust the rain-sensing wiper's sensitivity other than on the stalk, and you apparently cannot replace the stalk with a non-auto-wiper stalk, as the wiring has been installed for auto sensing, not otherwise.

It rained today, and once again these stupid things pissed me off. I'm doing 50mph, it's barely sprinkling and these stupid ass wipers are going 100mph. I'm like WTF SERIOUSLY! I turned them off, and had to flip the "mist" option every so often when it would collect too much.

Has anyone gotten any tips or suggestions? I'm almost tempted to call mazda and complain about this for real. It's a complete joke.

 

[Lagg-Alot]

So...

I've asked the dealership repeatedly and have gotten nowhere. You cannot alter or adjust the rain-sensing wiper's sensitivity other than on the stalk, and you apparently cannot replace the stalk with a non-auto-wiper stalk, as the wiring has been installed for auto sensing, not otherwise.

It rained today, and once again these stupid things pissed me off. I'm doing 50mph, it's barely sprinkling and these stupid ass wipers are going 100mph. I'm like WTF SERIOUSLY! I turned them off, and had to flip the "mist" option every so often when it would collect too much.

Has anyone gotten any tips or suggestions? I'm almost tempted to call mazda and complain about this for real. It's a complete joke.

You have the Auto Wipers turned down to the lowest sensitivity? The Knob on the Stalk Thingy. I find that if I leave mine to Lowest Sensitivity I can live with them. (five-0)

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

Absolutely sir! Lowest sensitivity and it goes like hell.

 

[J-Villa]

dont just turn them off.

turn them to the low continuous speed and then back to auto. It works for the misty rain here. also remove the strip of rain-x all up and down ur windshield around the sensor. I did it on my car last weekend and it works ALOT better now.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

So, the sensor area and straight down from it too? What did you use to remove the rain-x? Hell, it's already sorta worn off anyhow by now, it's not flying across my windshield like when I first got it.

 

[J-Villa]

i didn't really remove it... i just never put any back on... The wipers go right over that area tons of times, so it's going to wear off eventually.

as for the strip. Look where the senor is... measure like 2 inches off of it on each side. and don't rain-x that strip all the way down the windshield. I really only did the drivers side b/c i don't care if my passenger can see... It's probably better then can.t

 

[mazdaspeedster3]

I have a totally different beef with the auto wipers/auto headlights: here in delaware its a law for the lights to be on when your wipers are on, and I assume there are similar laws elsewhere in the country? Well for daytime rain, its not always dark enough to turn on the auto-lights but there is plenty of rain for the wipers. Anyone else think that the lights should go on as soon as the wipers do? drives me crazy....

B.C. Canada is the same.