Have been meaning to post this for ages ...

The back of the car is a bit squared off like a van, which means it gets covered in on a wet road.

The best you can get from the rear wiper is an intermittent wipe, that is just not good enough.

Driving in wet condition there needs to be a 'constant' setting for the rear wiper.

Anyone agree with my comment ...

I wonder if a constant setting would make the wiper drag across a dry screen, as the rear screen being so vertical doesn't seem to attract a continuous amount of actual rain.

The intermittent is ok for me and I often pull it on manually, rather than having it "do it itself" if it gets to wet.

However, the option would have been nice and I am sure would not have been too difficult to add. FL2 TD4 XS Santorini

An expected CG tip on how to improve rear visibility ........................







................Take your C van off

And/or use some rainX on the glass.


When will auto wipers start to get fitted on rear screens? At work
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If you think the rear needs a more constant wipe, give it a quick squirt with the washer and you get at least 4 "constant" sweeps of the rear wiper. That is usually enough to enable the intermittent to keep up with the new spray.

Just pulling the RH stalk back enables the washer to give you the multiple wipes, you don't even need to keep it on long enough to run washer fluid down the window.

Cheers
Chris Gone... 2013 XS TD4 Manual Firenze Red
Gone... 2008 (09MY) XS Td4 Manual Stornaway Grey
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Also gone in Nov'13, after 7.5 yrs, to new owners with time for more TLC - 1980 Series III 88
Current 2015 Discovery Sport HSE 2.0

Chris B wrote:

If you think the rear needs a more constant wipe, give it a quick squirt with the washer and you get at least 4 "constant" sweeps of the rear wiper. That is usually enough to enable the intermittent to keep up with the new spray.

Just pulling the RH stalk back enables the washer to give you the multiple wipes, you don't even need to keep it on long enough to run washer fluid down the window.

Cheers
Chris

chicken george wrote:

An expected CG tip on how to improve rear visibility ........................
................Take your C van off
And/or use some rainX on the glass.
When will auto wipers start to get fitted on rear screens?

Avturs pleasure dome didnt 'Frankie goes to Hollywood' write a song about you? So why do you need to keep checking? Are you admitting that towing a van is insecure even dangerous

Oh and the weather this side of the Pennines is drier so we don't get so much spray .. sunny Yorkshire  At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

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