Rain Sensing Wipers Not Detecting

[Kabish]

Just received my Mach-E four days ago and had the rare occurrence of RAIN in San Diego. This is my first car I've owned with rain sensing wipers, but I've been in cars with it in the past.

It does not appear as though my car is detecting the rain and wiping. I attached a picture of the amount of rain on the windshield, and also just the settings where it is turned on and set to the lowest rain detection. At Home Depot I was parked, but I pulled into that spot with that amount of rain on the windshield. The bottom picture was a picture taken while driving... My um... kid leaned over and took the picture for me

Should the wipers had been turning on?? It was a good amount of rain, defiantly more than what I would considered to be safe to drive.

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[Marcel]

To the right of your picture there it says to set the stalk in the one up position, so yes there is a hardware switch (otherwise you are not able to switch them completely off)

 

[Kabish]

To the right of your picture there it says to set the stalk in the one up position, so yes there is a hardware switch (otherwise you are not able to switch them completely off)

Awwwh okay, I guess it makes sense to be able to shut it off via hardware. I was looking through the manual but did not see that. Thanks Marcel

 

[RockwallRick]

Awwwh okay, I guess it makes sense to be able to shut it off via hardware. I was looking through the manual but did not see that. Thanks Marcel

You can also set the sensitivity. Yours is set all the way down. Try moving it up a few notches.

 

[timbop]

You have to enable auto wipers and it replaces the "intermittent" setting on the stalk:

 

[timbop]

and yes the "knob" sets sensitivity:

 

[seanmme]

Reviving this to ask a question about how well the rain-sensing wipers work for people. Mine *work*, kind of, but I find it is very slow to react, especially when I first start driving when it has been raining, or when it first starts raining, or when I am in startt-and-stop traffic. To me, the windshield gets unacceptably obscured before the car figures out the right speed for the wipers.
This is true even with the sensitivity set all the way up ("3 rain drops"-another pet peeve is that it was non-obvious whether this meant "wipe faster" or "wipe slower"). Are mine working correctly, or should I have it looked at by a dealer?

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