nico77 said:

Hi,
I have a question about whether the windscreen wipers should 'go to the next speed down' when the car comes to a halt. e.g if the wipers are on slow continuous and the car stops should they go to intermittent? My previous car (Peugeot) did this but my 500X doesn't now but I seem to remember that it did when I first got it or am I mis-remembering?
Thanks
Nico

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Geolith said:

Does your car have automatic wipers? If the switch is positioned in one of those automatic modes (see the attached photo), the wipers should slow down during stops. If I remember correctly, in LOW or HIGH mode they don't react to a halt at all.

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s130 said:

According to the 500X handbook:

Postion 1 - Double back to back "D" - the pause time between the strokes of the windscreen wiper is about 10 seconds, independently of the vehicle speed.

Postion 2 - Double back to back "D" with vertical separator - the pause time between two strokes is set according to the vehicle speed: when the speed
increases, the time between two strokes decreases.

In position LOW or HIGH, the windscreen wiper moves continuously, i.e. without a pause between two strokes.

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s130 said:

Mine have never come to a stop but in position 2 the faster I go the faster/quiicker/shorter sweep interval is.

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Geolith said:

Yes, that one depends on speed, but from what I've observed it has only two intervals: 6 sec and 3 sec. I don't think it gets any faster than that.

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