Gimmick or great ?

[Martc]

Originally Posted by Tim C

My Navara is the first vehicle I have had with auto wipers. Apart from the odd epileptic fit they seem to work quite well.
It does have a sensitivity adjustment on it though, which needs a tweak occasionally. I don't know whether other manufacturers have that?

All of the ones I have used have the ability to tweak, again does not make a huge amount of difference to its ability to not provide the right speed for the actual conditions.

[missfire]

Originally Posted by amanda

Only on a merc!!!!!!!!..............................the q7 tail gate is fully self opening and closing

mercs are better off road than Q7s though....

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[darreno'd']

Heated screen is the only thing I miss off my old transit, was ace. Auto wipers are pretty good, the key to them working nicely is to keep the part of the windscreen where the sensor is clean.

Btw love cruise control on my early or late drives.

[stuartmmcfc]

Originally Posted by Martc

I have now had 4 different makes of car with intermittant auto wipers and they all do the same thing which is basically quite annoying. You get very light rain and if you are going at speed it sets off the wipers but there is not enough rain on the screen to stop it from scraping the wiper blades across the screen

In intermittent mode find they either go too fast when they don't need to or they go too slow when they need to go faster.

Mart, you're hard to please and easily annoyed- let it go

[BW2309]

My A8 had, are you ready.....

Key-less entry, double glazing, fingerprint recognition start which also set steering wheel seat and mirrors position, 4 zone climate, voice control, bluetooth, adaptive headlights, auto boot lid and soft close doors, radar controlled cruise control, heated/cooled electric memory seats with massage function, digital TV, auto adjusting and dimming mirrors and adaptive air suspension and obviously the normal stuff like auto wipers and lights etc.....but most importantly, and most useful - 900NM of torque!!!!!!

It was all good stuff but I'm sure you'd have saved 300kg without half of it!

[john johnson]

Crikey what year was that?

[BW2309]

It was a 2004 A8 4.0 V8 TDi. Best car I ever owned. I miss it!!!

[yeti]

Automatic transmission.