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Rain sensing wipers don't work?
I have tried keeping the car running with intermittent wipers turned on, and spraying the windshield with a stream of water from a garden hose, but to no avail. The wipers simply do not work in auto mode. This wouldn't really bother me, except that there is no automatic intermittent setting like I have had on every other vehicle that I have ever owned, to include some really crappy 1990s American cars. Is there a troubleshooting method that I should be using? Very few people post about this problem on X5s.
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2007 BMW X5 4.8i - Sport Package, Wife's Car 2001 BMW 325i - My Car. 2005 Ford Excursion Limited 4x4, 6.0 Powerstroke Diesel. My first "grown up" car. |
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I have rain-sensing wipers and the stalk still has the intermittent adjustment in the stalk. I have them both on the E70 and E61 and both have rain sensing wipers and intermittent adjustnebt (I guess that is used when the rain sensor isn't working.
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You have pushed the button on the end of the stalk so the green LED has turned on?
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Yes, pushed the button on the stalk so the LED light comes on. When I adjust the wiper stalk one click, it immediately goes to low speed constant, one more to high speed constant. I can't get an intermittent feature to work. Well, it sort of does, but only goes to intermittent when the vehicle is stopped, or below, say, 5 MPH. As soon as I start moving, essentially they go to low speed constant.
I haven't replaced my glass either.
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Are you the original owner?
Does the Windshield have a BMW logo on it? Or another logo like PPG or Safelite?
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I believe the OE glass is Pilkington for many of the BMW's.
So even if the glass does not have the BMW logo, Pilkington glass is the next best option.
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Um, you DO NOT adjust the wiper stalk, this puts the wipers in a "normal" wipe mode. If you flip the wiper stalk upwards, it turns on the wipers in a full mode and does not use the rain sensor.
You adjust the "thumbwheel" on the wiper stalk to control the rain sensing sensitivity. But you do not move the stalk at all otherwise the rain sensing feature is disabled. You may want to read the owners manual to make sure you really understand how the wipers work on the E70. You must not drive the E70 on a regular basis. It took me about 2 months to figure out how the wipers "really" worked on my E70. Partially because it did not rain much for the first 2 months that I owned the vehicle and the rain sensing worked so well it took a long time to understand that pushing the wiper stalk upwards turned on the wipers in a non rain sensing mode.
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There's a great idea for coding. If the rain sense function had an "always on" position.
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