Lights with Auto Wipe?

[Ishniknork]

Originally Posted by AzNMpower32

...I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of very few people who understand how/why the Germans engineered stuff a certain way. Maybe my logic just is in sync with theirs'

You can stop wondering. Most people (and car manufacturers) don't understand the meaning of the word! I also think that's why most of us here chose BMW for our "Driving Experience"

I certainly deal with a lot of illogical situations and reasonings throughout my daily routine at work and it's really nice, but rare, when I come upon something that makes something even close to 'logical' sense!

To trueX5er:
I'm probably a control freak when it comes to functions on my car but I think the auto sensing wiper system works great on the X3! I didn't think it would work as well as it does when I first got mine and didn't use it at first. Then one day I decided to try it out and was blown away by how well it functioned. Now I never control my wipers manually.

I don't find the X3's auto sensing wiper position hard to find either, it's just one click up from off (how hard is that? ). Don't think I need a light to tell me if it's on or not either. The thing I had to get use to was resetting it if I turned the car off with the wiper switch in the auto position. You have to turn it off and back on again after restarting the car. To me that seems to be a mistake on the electrical engineering/programing end but there may be other reasoning behind the choice I haven't realized yet. Personally, I'd rather have to turn it off after restarting than reset it. If it wasn't raining anymore the wipers just wouldn't wipe but if it was they would continue to wipe for me automatically.

More to your point, that 'Lights on w/ Wipers' setup sounds like it would be a great safety feature for BMW or any manufacturer to include in all their models. What confounds me is that they already have such a simple feature working but don't implement it in all their models.