"When taking the key out, with the wipers set to intermittent, (and maybe it has to be pretty cold as well), it moves the wipers up to 12 o'clock as the car shuts off."

Since a few people seem interested in this feature, I did a few more tests on it today.

- Worked at 54*F exterior temperature (as high as it went)
- Confirmed it only works when the front wipers are set to intermittent. Does not work when they are set to off, or when they are set to a constant wiping speed.
- The wipers drive quickly to 12 o'clock as soon as the key turns to OFF/LOCK (the position before you can pull the key out). So you don't actually need to remove the key to make this happen.
- I don't know if this has been programmed in somehow. My car in general, other than having the high cluster, is pretty stripped and stock. I definitely did not program this feature. The only programming I did was to change the breakpoints on the temperature gauge.
- This feature (since I've noticed it) is completely reliable. Works this way every time. Maybe I never noticed it before since I'm usually in the Bay Area, where we either have no rain at all (e.g., April-Nov) or storms bringing heavy rain from Dec-Mar, so maybe I never used the intermittent wiper setting before, and it has nothing to do with temp???

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2001 X5 3.0i, 203k miles, AT, owned since 2014