Wiper blades randomly wiping

[Mirak]

I’ve got my sensitivity all the way down to lowest setting. Very rarely they’ll trigger while driving. But much more frequently they’ll trigger upon starting the car - if the car has been parked outside for an hour or so. First one wipe of the front, then one wipe if the rear a few seconds later. Perfectly clear day, no dust or pollen on windshield that I can see. I haven’t experienced the same thing when parked indoors.

In the grand scheme of things this is a minor bug but it’s just weird.

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[Mirak]

Man I had intended to take a video of the issue today but I forgot. I’ve got this bug narrowed down almost exclusively to one situation: when the car is parked outdoors for at least 30 minutes, the front wiper will trigger once upon starting the car, followed by the rear wiper a few seconds later. This never occurs when the car has been parked indoors, either in my home garage or parking garage. There’s no dust or pollen on the windshield that I can see.

Happens every time I drive my car to the gym during the day and leave it parked outside for an hour or so. It doesn’t happens when I park it more briefly during errands.

I wonder if sitting out in the sun is causing the issue? I don’t know why that would be. I’ll park it outside for an hour or so this evening to see if it happens.

 

[Crilly]

There is a setting for the wipers to swipe once when you turn car on.

You can turn the wipers off by moving the lever up or down. I can never remember wish way.

 

[JCHLi]

Maybe... Just before you turn your vehicle off, the sensor registers a particular reading. Then when you start it again, the reading is sufficiently different then that last reading (? moves relative to ?) or clouds.

So it determines that there may be something interfering with the sensor, causing the wipers to wipe... Then the rear wiper wipes because that's how they are setup...

 

[generaltso]

There is a setting for the wipers to swipe once when you turn car on.

I don’t think there is.

 

[dliunatic]

There is a setting for the wipers to swipe once when you turn car on.

You can turn the wipers off by moving the lever up or down. I can never remember wish way.

Do you mean the courtesy wipe? That setting is just for if you clean your windshield with the washer fluid and it'll do an extra work after the normal wow had completed to get any investing drops

 

[timbop]

Move the stalk down 1 to the "off" position unless it is actually wet out. It's probably just an artifact of sun glare or something fooling the sensors.

 

[nhdave]

My heat would come on occasionally until I realized I was accidentally pressing heat when turning the volume control. With my fingers clear of the display, I haven't had the issue.

 

[2FlyMache]

Mine sometimes does it when I first turn on the car. I’ve been getting a lot of pollen on it, I park it outdoors, I’ve assumed it’s been caused by that.

There is a setting for Courtesy wipe that you can deselect in settings. I will say that even with it still deselected in mine, it will occasionally courtesy wipe still

 

[Shayne]

You must be able to turn the wipers off. That should eliminate any rain sense activation.

You can and it's sensitivity. It is in the manual and starts on page 92 in mine. Just turn down the sensitivity till it rains may help?

 

[Cnote]

Man I had intended to take a video of the issue today but I forgot. I’ve got this bug narrowed down almost exclusively to one situation: when the car is parked outdoors for at least 30 minutes, the front wiper will trigger once upon starting the car, followed by the rear wiper a few seconds later. This never occurs when the car has been parked indoors, either in my home garage or parking garage. There’s no dust or pollen on the windshield that I can see.

Happens every time I drive my car to the gym during the day and leave it parked outside for an hour or so. It doesn’t happens when I park it more briefly during errands.

I wonder if sitting out in the sun is causing the issue? I don’t know why that would be. I’ll park it outside for an hour or so this evening to see if it happens.

Mine have done the random wipe in my garage with the door closed and when outside. My sensitivity is in the middle since it doesn't seem to want to turn on in the actual rain quickly enough for my preference.

 

[MachoHulkWarrior]

There is a setting for Courtesy wipe that you can deselect in settings. I will say that even with it still deselected in mine, it will occasionally courtesy wipe still

Is a courtesy wipe like a courtesy flush?

 

[shark]

My 2017 Raptor occasionally does this on the way home from work, as I drive under the same overpass that briefly blocks the sun.

 

[ShadowCVL]

I was just thinking about this yesterday, in a light rain at a traffic light the wipers will go into stopped position til i start moving again, but the random wipe appears to be when a bug hits it too. I hit a horse fly yesterday and it went nuts lol.

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