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Rootripper - even though your auto headlights are currently working, I still strongly suspect that a deteriorating/bubbling gel pad is the cause for your "insensitive wipers." I suspect that if you don't do anything then over the next months/years your auto headlight function will also go away. As I recall when my son had problems with his there was initially intermittent failure of the wipers, then constant failure of the wipers, coincident with intermittent progressing to constant failure of the auto headlights.
Whether you choose to fix that is, of course, up to you. Manual control of the wipers and headlights is always an option. On a certain level, these are "first world problems."
If you choose to replace the gel pad, one thing I forgot to mention is that the gel pad took some effort to get off. The best approach for me was to initially use a razor scraper on all 4 sides to make initial inroads into peeling back the old gel pad. Then I followed up with thin plastic prying tools. I have seen people mentioning using dental floss as a good way to get between the windshield and gel pad. However, at least in my case, the dental floss was inferior to plastic prying tools.
Good luck. If you decide to replace the gel pad let us know if it's a successful repair.
Stephen
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Stephen
2010 e70 35d- now driven by son #2
2005 e53 3.0 - now driven by son #1
2021 G05 45e PHEV - now driven by me
2008 ML320 CDI - driven by wife
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