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Model Y Auto Wipers
- Thread starter Anthony65
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My wipers have just started turning on for no apparent reason (no rain). I have to start wash mode and they’ll run their course, but that’s happened twice now in two days. Hope there’s a fix coming out. Harsh on the wipers to drag across a dry windshield.
I thought it was just me. At least a half dozen times yesterday the wipers would swipe across a dry windshield once or twice each time I put it in ‘D’. I thought maybe the camera/sensor was detecting bug splat on the windshield near the rear view mirror. But that wasn’t the case. Today, operating normally.
TomServo
Active Member
Only Tesla can over engineer something that has been perfected for decades. It shouldn’t be this complicated.
LevelHeaded
Member
I leave mine off until I need them, and then I put them on auto. This is how I’ve done it with every car I’ve had with automatic wipers. To me the added value isn’t having the car turn them on for me, it’s having the car modulate the speed appropriately.
In the early M3 days, there were also even more issues with the auto wipers. If you left them on auto, they would start wiping with high velocity when you opened the driver’s door; soaked me several times before I could get in the car! Luckily seems they wait til you put the car in drive now
In the early M3 days, there were also even more issues with the auto wipers. If you left them on auto, they would start wiping with high velocity when you opened the driver’s door; soaked me several times before I could get in the car! Luckily seems they wait til you put the car in drive now
I leave mine off until I need them, and then I put them on auto. This is how I’ve done it with every car I’ve had with automatic wipers. To me the added value isn’t having the car turn them on for me, it’s having the car modulate the speed appropriately.
In the early M3 days, there were also even more issues with the auto wipers. If you left them on auto, they would start wiping with high velocity when you opened the driver’s door; soaked me several times before I could get in the car! Luckily seems they wait til you put the car in drive now
ditto. I leave them off until I need them. Done that for years with every other car I've owned. None of them have been perfect
Young Phenom
Member
Had a bug smeared across the windshield in front of the forward looking cameras the other day, wipers would not shut off. Cleaned windshield, problem solved.
The wipers have been so manic in my car. I have to turn them to a manual speed because auto is too intense. It’s been really rainy here the last few days so I’ve been having a lot more time with the wipers. I made the mistake of putting Rain X in the windshield fluid tank so the wipers are also chattering across the window if it’s not very damp. It also seems leave a streak across the window sometimes which I think blocks the autopilot cameras and triggers the crazy auto wiper behavior.
Came here mostly to say: don’t do rain x on the windshield like me!
Came here mostly to say: don’t do rain x on the windshield like me!
Yeah, I actually had issue in my VAG cars of yesteryear with using RainX washer fluid. It would cause issues with the sensor in the washer fluid reservoir. It would build up a film on the sensor, I would have to clean is on occasion. Wonder if that’s the case with Tesla?
