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Smeary wipers - auto wipers too



are clios 1 of those cars that no matter what wipers its fitted with regardless if they are brand new just will always have wipers that smear the screen or are my wipers gubbed.

was lightly raining tonight, stuck my wipers on to clear the rain and they smeared the rain water all over my screen in smeary lines. my last 2 cars (astra and 206) both cleared their screens fine in similar situations hence does it sound like my wipers are gubbed or do clios "just" smear just "cos they do, its just a characteristic"??

cheers.

p.s. I have a 2004 1.2 16v dynamique, which has auto lights, so I'm assuming it should have auto wipers too? should it?

if it should, how do they automatically wipe the screen when raining, i.e. how do I put them in auto mode and how/when do they work??

and whats the bit on the wiper stalk for, the bit further in the stalk than the rear wiper controller, that has a series of dots in a line downwards next to it.
 
  Breaking A 172 Replica
Yes auto wipers.

I bought some new wipers that don't smear (flat blade jobbys)

The size ascending lines are to vary the intermittency (i.e. big line regularly small line less regular wipes)

Sam
 
ok and how do the auto wipers work, I had my wipers on the intermittent/automatic. notch earlier when it was "spitting" rain, but when it got heavier my wipers didnt quicken up, i.e. had I been in a car not equipped with auto wipers I'd have had my wipers on the fastest continuous wipe setting it was that heavy, my wipers on automatic position didnt start wiping more regularly to clear the more vast amounts of water on the screen.

also, on the smearing wipers, my point was, do all clios always smear the screen even with brand new standard wipers fitted?
 
Make sure you havent got s**t from your windscreen all over your new wipers.

Do you rainx your windows? That stuff always makes mine streaky unless it hammers it down then it works a treat. It gets on my nerves that much I've stopped using it.
 


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