Sensitivity of auto wipers on E class

[softtop]

Is it possible that they can become less sensitive? It is now getting to the point of playing chicken and I lose by having to manually wipe the screen before the car will.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

S

[Stegel]

I've got a CLS, and had an E class beforehand. The auto wipers do seem to fall asleep sometimes, particularly if you just leave them on and don't turn them off when stopping the engine. I just turn them off and then back on again and that does the trick. The CLS has two levels of sensitivity (two positions on the stalk - which I don't recollect the E class having) but sometimes hard to discern any real difference, and I lose the game of chicken in heavy rain at high speed and go for full speed on manual!

[anonymous-user]

The wiper on my E class seems to work properly when it feels like it, it'll be fine when it's raining but when the rain stops it then starts wiping continuously until I turn it off. It also seems to be more unpredictable at night as well.

[Monkeylegend]

Mine are as good as the automatic headlights on my E Class. Very unpredictable and never seem to do what you would like them to do. I would be much happier with a manually controlled intermittent wipe.I have often driving around for miles in bright sunshine before noticing the headlights have turned themselves on then jump out of my skin when the wipers suddenly scrape noisily across a bone dry windscreen. Technology for technologies sake, so I normally leave them both on manual.