not rain sensor type.

 sitting in my car while it was heating up (waiting on my wife)...i put on the wiper's to first speed an they wiped once.....then a few second's later they wiped again? so me thinking i only put it to intermiten wipe i push the lever up one and notice "hey...that should be the fastest setting?".....cut a long story short 

who else fell for the.." no i wont wipe your window proper till you start moving!"  god dammit and i was thinking i'm needing either a motor or a new switch...

ive had my car since September and i'm still finding little neat touche's  lovin it

That was one of my earliest experiences in a bm...

Stopped at traffic lights and thought "Hmm, somethings not right, the wipers have stopped!"  Lights go to green and I'm a happy bunny but I made a mental note to read the owners manual (twice!).

yip...cant beat abit of light reading, gonna read it again tonight

does make you feel pritty stupid though!

Ian, do you know about the adjustable intermittent too  

what great engineers and innovators BMW are

well my E34 has this I'm not sure about others but, its been a feature on BMW's for many years.

Turn intermittant on and off quickly then wait up to 20 seconds before turning on again

what ever time has lapsed between the 2 will be the gap between wipes  from 2 to 20 seconds

well the other day i found out that if i park up and turn the lights off, ignition off, and i use the indicator i get a parking light, left or right depending on what side of the road i'm on. had the car a year and just found it out!! my fans still playing up though!

Bill- wrote: Ian, do you know about the adjustable intermittent too   what great engineers and innovators BMW are

 not sure if the E39 work's the same as an E34 as the E39 has an adjuster fitted to the stalk for manual adjustment.

Hmmm, mine dont do this ...

In fact they dont do a lot, there's a rain sensor on the window wich does not seem to work, there are no varying speeds on the intermitent option, twirling the knob does jack and and to top it off of I have the wipers on slow, they stay on slow even if I have stopped ?

All problems linked perhaps? Any ideas?

Oh, try flashing your main beam when your lights and ignition are off and then you will get an illuminted walk to your front door (unless you park in a garage)

i found the "save light's" on the first night......thought i was going to dis-connect the battery!.......Doh!!

one of the thing's my car (factory extra wise) hasn't got fitted are rain sensor's, my brother had a lot of bother with them in the past and when i found mine never had it i thought "one less worry then!" my mate from work has them on his E39 528 Shnitzer and like's the feature.... but he's a wee bit lazy!  

Having owned BMs for 15 years I thought I knew most of their idiosyncracies, but I'd forgotten about the variable intermittent wiper function.  I spent most of my journey to the office this morning playing with it!  (Ooh err!).

Thanks for pointing it out Bill-.

I wonder if it plays a little tune when you get it right?

*bleepy-bleepy-beep* "Super-Special-Combo!!  Crash mode activated"

Personally, I love the dimming rear and door mirrors (don't realise how great they are till you drive another car at night, and the way the n/s mirror dips when I engage reverse to see the position of the n/s rear wheel against the curve.

Also, and it's a silly thing, but the way the temp guage rises while warming, up to a point absolutely perfectly vertical/central, and never, ever waivers from that spot.

Teutonic precision, can't beat it!!!

I could go on, but I think i'm getting into anorak territory!

Ali

ahmurray wrote: Also the way the temp guage rises while warming, up to a point absolutely perfectly vertical/central, and never, ever waivers from that spot. Teutonic precision, can't beat it!!!

When it works!!  The temp guage on my E36 is more "5 to" than 12 o'clock which always bugs me!

Bill- wrote: well my E34 has this I'm not sure about others but, its been a feature on BMW's for many years.   Turn intermittant on and off quickly then wait up to 20 seconds before turning on again what ever time has lapsed between the 2 will be the gap between wipes  from 2 to 20 seconds

get your anorak on - on the E36 this is only available with the 'headlight intensive cleaning system'...

ahmurray wrote: Personally, I love the dimming rear and door mirrors (don't realise how great they are till you drive another car at night, and the way the n/s mirror dips when I engage reverse to see the position of the n/s rear wheel against the curve.

I don't think i've got an auto-tilting passenger side door mirror?   anything special that has to be done?

I've got the photocromatic rear view mirror, but never realised the door mirrors were the same, never noticed any little dots on them?

i found another little touch  (by mistake)

the centre arm rest slide's forward!

not got the tilting morror though ,  that's a extra i'd like

I think Stephen's talking about the n/s mirror dipping when reverse gear is selected.  This is only available as part of the memory seat module.

Stephen, iirc your car has manual seats so you won't have the mirror feature.

thanks for that Chas, my e46 had electric sports seats and it didn't have the dipping n/s mirror either, but i thought that was cos it was an early model

ah well, what youve never had you never miss