Just thought I'd share...

[Curious Joel]

Originally Posted by Bavarian

I personally find that the rain sensor feature is one of the most practical features on the car. It is true that snow, or fine mist confuses the sensor, but then just turn it down to the lowest sensitivity level, and it will work as it should again.

I think that my old 330i wiped more...perhaps because the windshield got "splashed" more times when going through large puddles?

I absolutely love the rain sensor. It seems frivolous, but it removes a lot of distraction from driving. You know, it never even occured to me to turn the sensitivity down... Shows how smart I am.

[Chris F.]

I think the rain sensor is nice but I could certainly do without it....altho its neat to watch the wipers go fast when the rain really starts coming down.

My drive this evening was horrible....what usually takes 20 minutes turned into a 1.5 hour drive!!!

[Curious Joel]

Originally Posted by Chris F.

I think the rain sensor is nice but I could certainly do without it....altho its neat to watch the wipers go fast when the rain really starts coming down.

My drive this evening was horrible....what usually takes 20 minutes turned into a 1.5 hour drive!!!

I got out of school at 2:20 (a whole 15 minutes early!) and I live almost exactly 9 miles from my school, and it took me about 45 minutes to get home... I sat on the 393 for a while due to an accident, and once that cleared up the traffic was still moving at like 35.... Then all the back roads to my house were, of course, unplowed...

[dsheli]

Cj, I think that it is just your 3er. Would never happen in an X5

[rangerfan]

Originally Posted by Chris F.

I think the rain sensor is nice but I could certainly do without it....altho its neat to watch the wipers go fast when the rain really starts coming down.

My drive this evening was horrible....what usually takes 20 minutes turned into a 1.5 hour drive!!!

Ya the storm today was nuts. Traffic was terrible. I left work early 'cause the power supply on my pc at work died. Good thing it decided to die today.

[Curious Joel]

Originally Posted by dsheli

Cj, I think that it is just your 3er. Would never happen in an X5

Wow, David, thanks for cheering me up... :p

I miss the X5 SOOOOO MUCH! I'm actually depressed about it! Of course, I'm depressed anyways, but it doesn't help///

I notice that the rain sensor on my '02 X5 only adjusted the wipers to the first "fast" position... The highest speed had to be activated manually. This isn't the case on the '03 330..(that has a lot of zeroes and threes in it..)

I had fun getting home today, I almost got in a few accidents. Going home from school involves going down a REEEEEEEEEEALLLY steep hill, with a stop sign at the end... HDC time... And then A moderately steep hill with a traffic light and massive intersection at the end. And then, of course I've got my 900-foot hill to go up. Turning off one road, I suddenly found myself staring at the snowbank. I unexpectedly did a 3/4 spin. DSC was on, too.

[dsheli]

Cool...

[Juanted]

Yet another reason why you need to get your X5 back, CJ!

On a serious note, I did not know one can adjust the sensitivity of the rain sensors... I guess I should RTFM, huh?

Juan

[dsheli]

Yep you can.

[Curious Joel]

Originally Posted by Kaefer

Yet another reason why you need to get your X5 back, CJ!

On a serious note, I did not know one can adjust the sensitivity of the rain sensors... I guess I should RTFM, huh?

Juan

Lol yeah I tried to sell my mom on that, no luck...

Wow, yes, RTFM! What did you think that little twist-knob did?
Don't worry, things like that happen to me all the time. I never bothered to RTFM, I'm just learning as I go.