srs5694
Active Member
Capitalism my friend. Saving $1 per car per year is acceptable for the manufacture to pass the cost of totaling a car to a deer. If you don't like the wiper controls... hack it or buy another car. It is a free market.
I'll criticize the car if I want to. Note that I could criticize any car I've ever driven; no car is perfect. Discussing a car's weak points is fair game, and is part of capitalism, which is built on an assumption of perfect buyer knowledge about the products available on the market.
You can lightly press the button (not all the way) and hold it there for a few seconds and it will continue to swipe.It may have changed, but AFAIK, there's no way to activate continuous wiper mode via the stalk, at least not in the Model 3 (this is the Model 3 forum); the stalk button will activate either a single wipe or a series of a few wipes in conjunction with a spray of wiper fluid
That's good to know, but it sounds like it's just turning from off to on. Unless doing that repeatedly will change the speed of the wiping action, it doesn't really help much. My own complaint isn't so much that it takes attention to turn on the wipers, but that it takes attention to change the wipers' speed. If that long-press will change the wipers' speed, then that's slightly helpful, although it's a rather awkward way to do it, since you'd need to cycle through four speeds (or five, if Auto is included) via a process that takes "a few seconds," by your description, for each change.
At this point, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with your vehicle? Have you done anything to the windshield?
Can you sit in your car on a dry day with it on and have someone spray the windshield with a hose? Wipers should start right up
It responds to rain, but not consistently. It does fine with what I'd consider "average" rain -- but when the rain is in the form of light mist or if it's unusually heavy, the car is slow to respond to the rain. I've done nothing unusual to my windshield. Lots of other people report the same types of problems, so it's unlikely to be a hardware fault in my car. It's more likely that people are encountering different types of rain based on where they live and/or that people have different preferences for how often the Auto wipers wipe.