Auto Wipers

[EdP]

It's the next setting down from AUTO.

That would be the low setting. Mine runs constantly in that position. I'll have to check, but AFAIK the intermittent has no effect on it.
LO : The wiper runs at a lower speed.
HI : The wiper runs at a higher speed.

 

[1FstYota]

That would be the low setting. Mine runs constantly in that position. I'll have to check, but AFAIK the intermittent has no effect on it.
LO : The wiper runs at a lower speed.
HI : The wiper runs at a higher speed.

Yea, I'll check too, I'm pretty sure it should, but even then its not a consistent delay. Maybe my control stalk is jacked.

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To me the logic is LO speed (up and down motion) plus intermittent setting would be a slow up and down but the frequency it wipes is changed.

Unless Hyundai's logic is completely different.

 

[EdP]

Yea, I'll check too, I'm pretty sure it should, but even then its not a consistent delay. Maybe my control stalk is jacked.

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To me the logic is LO speed (up and down motion) plus intermittent setting would be a slow up and down but the frequency it wipes is changed.

Unless Hyundai's logic is completely different.

Its raining right now so I checked.
Low is low. Adjusting the intermittent switch made no changes.
High is faster but again, steady
Auto adjusts with the amount of rain, but I did not drive. At the rate of rain presently, the gap between wipes varied from about 3 seconds to 13 seconds. That would change it I was driving and the speed of the car changed what is hitting the windshield.

Going back to the days before automatic sensing wipers you did have a setting as you describe. It would be like on LOW and you could adjust the gap of time between wipes and the changes is rain, speed, splashes would not alter the timing.

 

[1FstYota]

Its raining right now so I checked.
Low is low. Adjusting the intermittent switch made no changes.
High is faster but again, steady
Auto adjusts with the amount of rain, but I did not drive. At the rate of rain presently, the gap between wipes varied from about 3 seconds to 13 seconds. That would change it I was driving and the speed of the car changed what is hitting the windshield.

Going back to the days before automatic sensing wipers you did have a setting as you describe. It would be like on LOW and you could adjust the gap of time between wipes and the changes is rain, speed, splashes would not alter the timing.

Cool, thanks for clearing that up EdP.

 

[lobsenza]

I generally like they way they work. The adjustment is a sensitivity adjustment.

 

[LaStrato]

Living in So. Cal., we don't see much rain, so I don't get to use the wipers all that often. Well, yesterday we got a good amount of rain and I turned on the wipers to the first wiper setting; which is Auto. However, I am confused as to the function of the "timer" knob. No matter how much I played with that, the time that it took for the wipers to wipe, varied; some took longer than I wanted it to while others were too short between wipes. Which, got me thinking; what is the point of the "timer" switch/knob if it is supposed to only be functional in the first wiper position; which is also "auto". There were times when I wanted the wipers to wipe intermittently (on a set timer) and NOT auto. So, how does one override the auto?

TIA

I have had my 2016 for 2 years now and the wipers have never worked properly. In a light rain I can drive for miles before they wipe. The dealer/ Hyundai have found no problems and say they are working properly. So, no rain sensing and no intermittent, just low and hi setting are all that work for wipers. The sensing only seems to only work when a bead of water rolls over the sensor, so it can go minutes / miles between wipes.

There is no override for the rain sensing wipers, therefore no delay wiping.

 

[EdP]

There is no override for the rain sensing wipers, therefore no delay wiping.

If I'm reading this right, in addition to the sensing you want a preset intermittent wipe, user set. That does not exist.

Best you can do is set the sensitivity of the sensor. Not sure how it works, but for example, you can set it so it takes one bead of water or four beads of water to trigger a wipe. Overall, it works for me satisfactorily about 90% of the time. There have been time that I manually hit the stalk for a wipe. It does a good job of speeding up the wipers when passing a truck that is splashing though. It will also trigger a wipe after is stopped raining, but a car hitting a puddle sprayed me. Faster than I could reach for the control.

 

[kn5owa]

The "auto rain sensing" control is completely spastic - near worthless

Give me a plain vanilla delay control

 

[EdP]

The "auto rain sensing" control is completely spastic - near worthless

Give me a plain vanilla delay control

Opinions differ. Just drove about 80 miles in intermittent showers. Did a good job for me. Tomorrow I have 300 miles to go and 60% chance of rain along the way It will be on the entire time.
For me, it is a "must have" on my car.

 

[Windchaser]

I have found them to be quite adequate on my G80.

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[Audio]

Unless the system changed drastically over the years, either your car has something wrong with it, or you just need to turn up the sensitivity to your liking. My 09 auto wipers are perfect. Sometimes I notice in lighter rain, they don't like to kick on as soon as I'd like(I keep sensitivity all the way down), so I click it up 1 or 2 notches and we're good to go again. I've noticed the sensitivity adjust as my speed or the intensity of the rain increases/decreases. Just flawless to me.

It sounds like, after reading back through this thread, a lot of people are so used to just plain intermittent wipers, they don't fully understand how the auto wipers work. It's 100% a different system, and as stated previously it's a sensitivity not speed setting. Click it up a few notches next time you get the little rain storms that you don't think the wipers are doing well enough for and see how it fares.

 

[kn5owa]

I think people understand perfectly how these wipers work. The real problem is that like many of the new gadgets - they are a work in progress.

I was an engineer in my former life, and I no doubt expect far more than most people as far as useful results.

The real problem is just how do you make a wiper system "sensitivity based"? Not really so easy. Think about it.

 

[Audio]

I'd run with that theory if this were 2005, but it's 2018 and automatic wipers are absolutely not a new thing lol. Cadillac has been doing it since the mid-90's and everyone else has dabbled in it shortly thereafter. 20+ years later isn't exactly "new" anymore. Like you, I've read the previous comments and came to my own conclusion. It honestly sounds like people are either expecting the system to be smarter than it is, or they just don't have a full grasp on how the system is designed to work.