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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: cinimod on December 28, 2010, 10:28:50 PM

Title: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: cinimod on December 28, 2010, 10:28:50 PM: my rain sensing wipers appear to have stopped being rain sensitive :icon_sad:
they come on for 1 wipe when you move the switch but then nothing!
have to keep flicking the switch or clicking it round to manual wipe at medium speed which is a pain when its only light rain.
any ideas any one?
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: tim_aka_tim on December 28, 2010, 10:47:53 PM: Wrong kind of rain?

Read this shit http://www.wjjeeps.com/rainsense.htm (http://www.wjjeeps.com/rainsense.htm)
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: Bulldog67 on December 28, 2010, 10:49:32 PM: Quote from: cinimod on December 28, 2010, 10:28:50 PM
any ideas any one?

yeah, stop bein a lazy bugger :003:
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: eastryjeep on December 30, 2010, 01:39:41 AM: I was once told by a windscreen fitter that one of the main reasons for rain sensors to quit was "road tan".
Which to us normal folk is what they call the continual pitting the screen gets from sand, grit, stones etc.
So the next question i suppose is do you have an excessivly pitted screen and did it go bust gradually or suddenly?
If it went suddenly i recon the bloke was trying to con me!
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: cinimod on December 30, 2010, 06:06:26 AM: Quote from: eastryjeep on December 30, 2010, 01:39:41 AM
I was once told by a windscreen fitter that one of the main reasons for rain sensors to quit was "road tan".
Which to us normal folk is what they call the continual pitting the screen gets from sand, grit, stones etc.
So the next question i suppose is do you have an excessivly pitted screen and did it go bust gradually or suddenly?
If it went suddenly i recon the bloke was trying to con me!

Have only owned for about a month so suspect never worked properly,however wriggled cover on inside of screen last night and started working again,so will have to remove cover and investigate,hopefully loose connection.
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: eastryjeep on December 30, 2010, 01:38:32 PM: That sounds promising.
Don't get too rough with those little led looking efforts in the sensor unit, either the connectors fall off or the wires break just by looking too hard at 'em.
Gently does it and the jobs a good'un!
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: Cockney Boy on December 30, 2010, 04:45:22 PM: This is certainly the case with Audi's but if the screen has been changed then the sensor also needs changing. Check to see if it's the original screen, if it's not the. Change the sensor
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: Bubba on December 30, 2010, 07:17:28 PM: is it really a big deal ? do they not work at all now ?
Title: Re: rain sensing wipers 2002 crd grand
Post by: cinimod on December 30, 2010, 11:03:49 PM: they are working on manual setting which is fast or faster no intermittant,hopefully will sort after the festivities :icon_jook: