What the hell are these SUPPOSED to do? I disabled them and then turned them back on, no difference...

 

They let you know its raining by letting JUST enough water collect on the windshield so that you cant see anymore, therefore, you remember to turn them on. LOL...

 

Wait this isnt on the maxima right?

 

they seem to work fine for every maxima i have driven.

 

Wait wait wait when did the 7th gen maxima ever get rain sensing wipers? As far as ik our cars dont have them.

 

well in my convenience menu I can enable/disable them so I hope I have them lol, even though they dont seem to do crap

 

What year do you have 09? 10?

 

I've looked at both years and haven't been able to find any option that says anything about Rain Sensing wipers on the 7th gen. Since you said its on your Convenience Menu i'm assuming that you have the nav package.?? Possible this might be a feature sometime in the future perhaps a 7.5 Gen Maxima kinda like what the did with the 5th gens.??

 

the best way to tell is go to a car was and have the wiper control turned to the intermittent setting while you have the rain sensing wiper setting set to on, they will only turn on when the car senses rain, or at least thats what i have gathered from them.

 

Are you talking about rain-sensitive wipers or speed-sensitive wipers? The '09 Max only has the latter...

 

You (and KillaKam) are correct. Either they are meaning to say 'speed-sensitive wipers', or their Maxima is very different from mine (Premium and Tech/Navi packages).

 

Ya thats what I was saying cause if our cars had this feature I would have defiantly got it.

 

Yeah its speed sensitive wipers. i dont know what they do either. I think they are for the faster you drive the faster the would wipe. Just like the speed sensing radio, it gets louder according to how fast you drive.

 

OMG. LOL. Reminds me of the death scene for Dr. Wentworth (Dik Van Patten) in High Anxiety. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcB7nPpgsPg

 

I went ahead and did a search if anyone is interested in maybe installing this in there car. Here is one that I found..

http://www.raintracker.com/

 

Bingo on your thoughts on the speed sensitive wipers. The faster the car moves, the faster the wipers go.

The radio, however, is different; it raises its volume as it detects the background noise rising. This could be because the car speeded up, or could be because the kids in the back seat were acting up, or someone opened a window or sunroof.

 

r u saying 09 max has speed sensing radio system?

 

No. Read my post just above yours again. The radio has a BACKGROUND NOISE sensing system, and adjusts based on the background noise.

 

The speed sensitive wipers, wipe when you drive and stop when you stop. Thats all it does.

 

So that's why the louder I sing the louder the stereo gets. I just thought it was trying to tell me how bad I am...

 

Actually the easiest way to tell if your car has rain sensing wiper is to look at the speaker covers on the dash. One of them has a sensor(looks like a black dot) on it, for day time running lights. On the other side, if you have the option, there will be a sensor for rain sensing wipers. ill try to find a pic

 

That is incorrect. According to the 2010 Maxima manual, of two sensors you are referring to one is for the automatic headlights and the other is a sunload sensor for the climate control.

 

thats not what they told me, when I used to put them in at NNA in smyrna

 

How would a sensor on my dash tell if it's raining - assuming I had a windshield?

 

IDK, thats just what they told me

 

If we are talking Maximas only here, the 6th Gen was the first Maxima built in Smyrna. It did not have any rain-sensing wipers either. So, I guess you were just misinformed.

 

The 7th generation Maxima does NOT have rain-sensing wipers.
The 6th generation Maxima did NOT have rain-sensing wipers.
The 5th generation Maxima did NOT have rain-sensing wipers.

Even had Maximas been equipped with rain-sensing wipers, the detector would have to be OUTSIDE the cabin where the raindrops could hit it.

What the Maxima DOES have is SPEED-SENSITIVE wipers. This function operates ONLY when the wiper switch is in the INTERMITTENT setting. in THAT ONE SETTING, the faster the car goes, the shorter the interval between passes of the wiper blades across the windshield.

Of course we can also change that interval by simply rotating the sleeve control on the wiper stalk. And cars with the Navigation Package can block the speed-sensitive function should they wish to.

The only thing that is going to get this mistitled and misleading thread on a rational track is for the erroneous title to be corrected to read 'What's Up With The Speed-Sensitive Wipers?'

 

agreed, I have a 2010 Maxima and the 7th generation max does not have rain-sensing wipers, they are speed-sensing wipers just like on the altima; the only Nissan I know that has the rain-sensing wipers is the 09-10 Murano!

 

If the max had rain sensing wipers there would be a laser sensor on the inside below the rear view mirror. That is how u tell if cars have them or not. Here is a video that I found on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIDRU...=youtube_gdata

 

Yes it it speed sensing. My wife's 2009 Volvo XC90 has "rain sensing" wiper. Pretty cool actually.
JP

 

My 300C had rain sensing and speed. I never had to turn on or adjust a wiper. I will miss that on the Max

 

agree with lotH... max's all have speed sensitive wipers.... and way better than rain-sensitive wipers. my current car has rain-sensitive and they are a pain in the ***.... I have no control over it anymore (other than me doing it manually)

ps. my sensor is on the inside of the windshield - where the rearview mirror attaches to the glass. (this is on a mazda 6 - 09 not maxima).

 

On my '09 Max, there is absolutely no difference noticed between having the speed sensitive option enabled or not. I noticed this the first week I had the car. Don't really think about it that much, but definitely know that it doesn't make a difference in the wipe interval.

 

Remember that the speed-sensing option ONLY applies when the wipers are in the INTERMITTENT setting. If we have the wipers in the SLOW or FAST setting, the speed-sensing function does not apply. Mine speed-sensing function seems to work fine.


EDIT - Cars with the Navi have the option to turn the speed-sensing function on or off. The car arrives from the factory with the speed-sensing ON, but once it arrives at the dealer, who knows what kind of piddling may have happened?

 

While you guys are going back and forth on this, wouldn't it be easier to confirm with 2 or 3 dealerships? Personally, I don't think any Nissan has this on for I always like reading about new options added to the new Maximas. And I know I have never seen this.

 

And yet, there it is on my Nav screen: a speed-sensing wiper option. I turn it on and they go slowly when the car is stopped and faster as I accelerate. There isn't really anything to "confirm" with a dealership.

 

Exactly. There is nothing to confirm. The OP was off base, and a few posts within the thread may be fuzzy. BUT the Owners Manual AND actually checking this in the car clearly confirm the 7th gen Maxima does NOT have RAIN-sensing wipers, but DOES have SPEED sensing wipers in the INTERMITTENT setting only.

 

Sorry, I should have expanded a bit more...yep, I'm aware that it only applies to the intermittent setting; however, when I have it set to intermittent with the speed sensitive wipers set to 'on', there is no difference in the wipe frequency (based upon speed) as compared to if I have the speed sensitive setting turned off.

 

Sounds like a warranty trip to the dealer is in order. Since we already have an easy override for this by use of the ring control on the wiper stalk, I think I would let this issue wait until I was going to the dealer for something else, and let them handle this while they already have the car.