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Having spent five hours driving in light to moderate rain today, it reminded of one thing I find peculiar about the wiper controls.

 

The rotation of the switch for the intermittent interval seems to be the wrong way round. I thought I'd get used to it but after fourteen months I still want it to be the other way round and always do it wrong when switching back from wiper speed 1 to intermittent.

 

Is it just me?

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Do you mean twisting the twisty thing or moving the stalk (sorry for the techno babble).

 

I always seem to twist the twisty thing the wrong way but that's probably coz my old Alfa worked the other way. I do find that the stages on the intermittent are odd. You have almost constant to one a month and not very much in between.

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that is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo freaky!!!!! on the way home from work today i was realising the same thing!!!!

it was just spitting with rain and i wanted the intermittant setting and i was convinced it was broken as it wouldn't move , even on the "quickest" setting , i then realised that the dial was back to front aswell - another nissan oversight eh!!!

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This ain't in the manual, but was pointed out about 2 years ago on the old site ( definitely worth mentioning again given the number of new users ), then if you twist it and stop between the clicks, then you get an in-between time delay.

 

ie if one position is every 2 secs, and the next is every 4 secs, then if you leave it half way between it does every 3 secs.

 

I didn't believe it either the first time someone mentioned it ( UKLooney, I seem to recall for those with long memories - Val ? ) - but it does seem to work

 

Gus

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I am struggling to get used to pushing it up for a single sweep and progressively down for intermit/slow/fast. On all my previous cars it's been the other way round!! lol.

 

There is an answer I've found though - RAINEX - it's brilliant :)

 

Rain what?

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