yeah.....thats the one!.......id guess at this point that the sensor unit is having a brain fart ....iassume its just a simple plug and play item??

alistairh wrote:

Mines was doing the same..easy to check..pull the connection to the sensor then try wipers..i ended up fixing mine by pulling the fuse and I reset the lot..

could you tell me which fuse and where to find it please......new to the green oval, been a Jag man for 20 years and got tired of all the silly electrical niggles........oh......hang on a minute.....Jag and Land Rovers are what????,...........

Its fuse f41 in the passenger side fuse box. Fixed my issue when I pulled it.have you tried unplugging the sensor first?

Not yet mate, not had time, I'll do it tomorrow and see what it does and report back. Cheers for the info.

Just a thought, is it dark out when you have problems?
All the cars I've had with rain sensor wipers don't like the dark unless there is plenty of artificial light.
Maybe I've been unlucky or do they use light being distorted by rain to work out what to do?!

well, they appear to be ok now ......all i did was give the mirror housing a shake, it seamed a bit loose and i made sure the sensor was clean on the outside, i dont know if it had anything to do with it or of they have just had a stern word with them selves but the last few times ive needed them they have worked well, im not holding my breath tho.....if they play silly beggers again ill strip it down but for now...if its not broken, dont fix it!

Sods law, my rain sensitive function seems to have stopped working haha.
Time to investigate.

if it helps ease the pain, mine are fine now, think it must have been a little leaf or something confusing the sensor.......but my rear wash is sh!t.......

I know this is an old thread but I figured better not start another.

So my rain sensor packed in recently which is a pain as I have no intermittent wipe.

I tried pulling fuse 41 for 10mins but it didn't help so I've disconnected the sensor & have got my intermittent wipe back which is good but its only at a low speed.

Next I tried to get the sensor off the screen but with my dodgy close up eyesight I couldn't make out how to do it. Can anyone advise me how to get the thing off. And any idea as to the best place to get another, I assume its a BMW part.

Cheers....

Rain sensor work by detecting reflected light back from rain on windscreen, as previous quote said the sensitivity is altered by the stalk. If the sensor is not pressed correctly against the windscreen they do not work correctly, which is why pressing rear view mirror may fix it. In all my land rovers they can initially be fooled but usually settle down after a couple of wipes.

Hi Rog21

Thanks for your input, what I really want to know is how to get the unit off the windscreen without doing any damage. Someone out there must know. As I said my close up eyesight isn't very good these days & I can't make out how its attached.

To remove the rain sensor you use a small screwdriver to push down on the top edges of the corners. The are vertical rectangular plastic latches that slide down to release it. If you look closely at the sides you can see the outline.

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Thank you for your reply Gordo

My 2011 Vogue rain sensor seems to be held by a metal clip (see photo)