Unstoppable high speed wipers

[Alby]

Little bit of ice in the wiper area made the wipers stick for a bit. Hit the spray button to see if that would help. They exploded out of the wiper hidey hole at max speed.

Strange thing was that nothing I did to the wiper settings could stop them. Max speed, couldn't spray or turn them off. Had to put the car in park at a light and pretend to get out, and that did it. Fine after that.

Worth a bug report I bet? Not very safe!

 

[McCaesar]

Someone posted in one of the dozens of winter threads that it's a good idea to turn off auto wipers in the winter too. if the wipers are frozen to their hidey holes and try and turn on, the wiper motor might be ruined.

 

[Alby]

Yup. Auto wipers were definitely not on.

 

[Emorson]

How do you shut off the wipers. Today in the snow and ice it made the windshield worse going on in auto. I don’t know how to completely stop them. There is the 3 alternate speed settings but no off.
We need an off setting ... have I missed it?

 

[Tz00]

How do you shut off the wipers

The blue button above the speed/auto selector.

 

[Leonard Peter]

I had a similar problem with my X
In a heavy snow they only operated at high speed. I was able to turn them off and manually single wiped the windshield.
I called service and they changed the sensor. I think it’s better but haven’t had a heavy snow yet.

 

[M_D129]

Little bit of ice in the wiper area made the wipers stick for a bit. Hit the spray button to see if that would help. They exploded out of the wiper hidey hole at max speed.

Strange thing was that nothing I did to the wiper settings could stop them. Max speed, couldn't spray or turn them off. Had to put the car in park at a light and pretend to get out, and that did it. Fine after that.

Worth a bug report I bet? Not very safe!

I would report it regardless in the future, and they can choose what to do with it.

Also, besides not having auto on, in the winter, when parked, and you know freezing precipitation will be present, use “Wiper Service Mode”, under Service. This will keep them out of their tucked position, and allow you to defrost them, along with the windshield, through the app.

 

[ALSETJC]

The wipers are a neural-net processor, a learning computer. Get out while you can.

 

[Ryephile]

I've stopped using the Auto wipers. Tesla should have just used a known-good traditional IR sensor.

OP, I'm wondering if the spray smeared the cameras and they took over with spaz-wiping?