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Lights and visibility
Lifting and returning windscreen wiper arms
● Place the wiper arms in the service position ⇒ .
● Only hold the wiper arms at the point where the blade is fixed.
CAUTION
● To prevent damage to the bonnet and the wiper arms, only leave them in
the service position.
● Before driving, always lower the wiper arms.
Rain sensor*
The rain sensor controls the frequency of the windscreen wiper intervals,
depending on the amount of rain ⇒
be adjusted manually. Manual wipe ⇒ p age 106
Move the lever to the required position
Rain sensor off.
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Rain sensor on; automatic wipe if necessary.
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Setting sensitivity level of rain sensor
A
– Set control to the right: highly sensitive.
– Set control to the left: less sensitive.
Fig. 68 Windscreen wip-
er lever: adjusting the
When the ignition is switched off and then back on, the rain sensor stays on
rain sensor
A
and starts operating again when the windscreen wipers are in position
and the vehicle is travelling at more than 4 km/h (2 mph).
Rain sensor modified behaviour
Possible causes of faults and mistaken readings on the sensitive surface
⇒ F ig. 69
of the rain sensor include:
Fig. 69 Rain sensor sen-
sitive surface
. The sensitivity of the rain sensor can
⇒ F ig.
68:
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