Wiper Controls

[WoREoD]

Having spent five hours driving in light to moderate rain today, it reminded of one thing I find peculiar about the wiper controls.

 

The rotation of the switch for the intermittent interval seems to be the wrong way round. I thought I'd get used to it but after fourteen months I still want it to be the other way round and always do it wrong when switching back from wiper speed 1 to intermittent.

 

Is it just me?

[GrahamB]

Do you mean twisting the twisty thing or moving the stalk (sorry for the techno babble).

 

I always seem to twist the twisty thing the wrong way but that's probably coz my old Alfa worked the other way. I do find that the stages on the intermittent are odd. You have almost constant to one a month and not very much in between.

[neo]

took me a while to remember which way to twist the stalk too

[janoof1]

that is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo freaky!!!!! on the way home from work today i was realising the same thing!!!!

it was just spitting with rain and i wanted the intermittant setting and i was convinced it was broken as it wouldn't move , even on the "quickest" setting , i then realised that the dial was back to front aswell - another nissan oversight eh!!!

[Stew]

Nooooooooooooo! This is going to be one of the things that everyone notices now and it'll make them all annoyed!

[neo]

in that case blame WoREoD

[Gus]

This ain't in the manual, but was pointed out about 2 years ago on the old site ( definitely worth mentioning again given the number of new users ), then if you twist it and stop between the clicks, then you get an in-between time delay.

 

ie if one position is every 2 secs, and the next is every 4 secs, then if you leave it half way between it does every 3 secs.

 

I didn't believe it either the first time someone mentioned it ( UKLooney, I seem to recall for those with long memories - Val ? ) - but it does seem to work

 

Gus

[jim]

Works OK on mine.

 

The only thing I have to remember is that the lights are on the right and the wipers on the left (its a JDM) - our other car is the other way round.

[mattuk77]

I am struggling to get used to pushing it up for a single sweep and progressively down for intermit/slow/fast. On all my previous cars it's been the other way round!! lol.

 

There is an answer I've found though - RAINEX - it's brilliant

[Sarnie]

I am struggling to get used to pushing it up for a single sweep and progressively down for intermit/slow/fast. On all my previous cars it's been the other way round!! lol.

 

There is an answer I've found though - RAINEX - it's brilliant

 

Rain what?

[M13KYF]

Rain-x, good stuff. Used to use it. You could drive along on the motorway in heavy rain and not need to use the wipers at all.

 

http://www.motormania.co.uk/product_det ... in-X&Code=

[Gus]

A lot easier to use the PIAA silicon wipers - gives the same effect, without the effort

 

Gus

[Sarnie]

A lot easier to the PIAA silicon wipers - gives the same effect, without the effort

 

Gus

 

Do we have a link?

[Digsy]

A lot easier to the PIAA silicon wipers - gives the same effect, without the effort

 

Gus

 

Do we have a link?

 

Good idea.

 

PS LMAO at the sig mate!!!!

[Gus]

Sure thing, should have included that

 

http://www.priracing.com/section.php?xSec=39&jssCart=f9a87546fa4d3b8dae7406bf3db10f87

 

Gus

[Sarnie]

A lot easier to the PIAA silicon wipers - gives the same effect, without the effort

 

Gus

 

Do we have a link?

 

Good idea.

 

PS LMAO at the sig mate!!!!

 

Somebody has to keep them on their toes