Originally Posted by
debburyl
Mine just does that if you have it on wiper delay at the top speed of the delay and it starts raining hard then it will speed up . Not when you press on the gas. Unless euro models are diffrent.
You're certain? When I tested mine last night on the 2nd intermittent setting, at 60mph, there was a non-zero delay. At 61mph, zero delay (ie continuous low speed).
I doubt pressing on the gas has anything to do with it; you can maintain a steady gas pedal setting and the car can still speed up, so I suspect what happened to you was that you went from the top speed of the delay setting to just over. I gather that with the CVT it n be hard to tell if you've speeded up slightly.
And with drive by wire cars, it wouldn't be unusual to have the pedal programmed for flywheel torque demand for manual transmissions, and road wheel torque demand for automatics so even if the gas pedal position never changed, the throttle plate could still change.
The reference to euro cars is that the upper trim levels in the UK in fact DO have rain sensing wipers on Mirage 2 and Mirage 3, and that would give the behavior you've described. But any rain sensor I've seen so far is fairly obvious on the widshield close to the mirror, and if we had them, I'm sure it would be listed as a feature.
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