Automatic windshield wiper

[sam_roi19]

Hello Every one,

Did any one try out the automatic windshield wiper into thier 2007 Toyota camry. If so can any one let us know the name of the manufacture.


Thank you.

[germandebbie]

Originally Posted by sam_roi19

Hello Every one,

Did any one try out the automatic windshield wiper into thier 2007 Toyota camry. If so can any one let us know the name of the manufacture.


Thank you.

If you mean rain-sensing wipers, I don't like it... I have it in my two other cars. It drives
me insane. It's like the wiper has a mind of its own, which it does, thanks to the little
sensor and the electrical circuits.

[marc780]

Automatic wipers??? Thank the Lord!!!! i am getting exhausted from that tiresome, reach up and turn on the wipers when it rains - i have been lusting after something that would free me from this hellish, tedious chore! I'll take two! So what if the damn thing flicks the wipers when a bird flies overhead, michale moore sneezes or the sun reaches its vertical equinox - its progress!!

[germandebbie]

Originally Posted by marc780

Automatic wipers??? Thank the Lord!!!! i am getting exhausted from that tiresome, reach up and turn on the wipers when it rains - i have been lusting after something that would free me from this hellish, tedious chore! I'll take two! So what if the damn thing flicks the wipers when a bird flies overhead, michale moore sneezes or the sun reaches its vertical equinox - its progress!!

Personally, I think the best solution is to drive at 130mph on the autobahn.... rain drops
don't stay on the windshield(with a little rain-x)

[gdanaher]

Just something else that's guaranteed to break. Just how lazy does someone get when they find it distressing to turn the wiper on?

[germandebbie]

Originally Posted by gdanaher

Just something else that's guaranteed to break. Just how lazy does someone get when they find it distressing to turn the wiper on?

Actually, I've never heard of failures involing rain-sensing wipers... On my other car,
it had factory rain-sensing wipers, the wiper hasn't failed once, in the last 130,000 miles.
(almost 10 years)

[Yazovets]

To the best of my knowledge, North American Camrys don't have rain-sensing wipers.

This can easily be added aftermarket for $150 of course.

I think it's a good feature. On all of our other family cars, we've had the feature and my old man swears by it. But it's not something I'd explicitely go to the trouble of retrofitting. But that's just me.

[marc780]

Originally Posted by germandebbie

Personally, I think the best solution is to drive at 130mph on the autobahn.... rain drops
don't stay on the windshield(with a little rain-x)

140 mph would be better - but caution, at speeds over 150 mph, wind resistance will cut your mpg by 0.25 %. but then again, i am waiting for the optional automatic bat-wing that will enable my Camry to fly.

[drunken_panda]

Or you could do what James May sugguested on Top Gear, go 215mph. It would cut down on rain and James claims that based on bernoulli principle would not cause slow down when you loose a lane on the freeway.

[hardpoint]

Yeah, I'd like to have rain sensing wipers again. It's not that I'm so lazy I can't turn them on or off, but I got use to not having mess with the wipers on my last vehicle. Sometimes the rain is so light that you have to use the mist feature, and over a 30-60 minute drive, it gets real old.

[Avalonman]

Just turn them on, and watch it like a TV. I wonder what will happen. Maybe you'll except the fact that you have to do it urself...

OR! You can take it from the Lexus ES/GS

And another thing. How come the ES has a Panorammic moonroof, and the LS doesn't even have it as an option? Sorry for thread jacking

[PhatRoyale]

Originally Posted by Avalonman

And another thing. How come the ES has a Panorammic moonroof, and the LS doesn't even have it as an option? Sorry for thread jacking

Different markets, different preferences, different options offered.

However, it doesn't make the ES better than the LS.

[drunken_panda]

How does it work? Is there a sensor on the outside that measure resistence or photocell?

[slick07LE]

Can these be modified to close a moonroof?

[Yazovets]

Originally Posted by drunken_panda

How does it work? Is there a sensor on the outside that measure resistence or photocell?

No, the sensor is on the inside. There's nothing on the outside.

On the inside there's an emitter and a sensor.

The emitter sends out infrared light at a 45-degree angle. If there are no rain-drops, then this light will bounce back to the sensor from the windshield.

If there is a rain-drop, then the infrared light will get scattered by the rain drops, and that's how it knows to turn on the wipers.