Ways to fully turn off the wiper?

[BeastForce1]

I know at least on the 3 and the Y there is some way to install buttons to completly turn off the wipers. Is there anything like that for the CT yet? Getting out step stool to clean the entire windshield only to have the wiper dry wipe for absoluletly no reason while using adaptive cruise is not optimal. Looking to bypass it completly if possible.

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[IowaCyber]

I know at least on the 3 and the Y there is some way to install buttons to completly turn off the wipers. Is there anything like that for the CT yet? Getting out step stool to clean the entire windshield only to have the wiper dry wipe for absoluletly no reason while using adaptive cruise is not optimal. Looking to bypass it completly if possible.

When you press the wiper button on the steering wheel a separate wiper option menu will come up. Just scroll to the off position and that should take care of it.

 

[BeastForce1]

When you press the wiper button on the steering wheel a separate wiper option menu will come up. Just scroll to the off position and that should take care of it.

Yeah so long story short, it doesn’t.

It does shut the wiper off until you use adaptive cruise and it has a false rain positive from the cameras and then it wipes the glass. Using FSD or in our case adaptive cruise overrides the off setting for the wiper and sets them to auto essentially while the feature is in use since there is no radar and adaptive cruise is vision only. My 2017 S with FSD has a physical switch for wipers and I can leave them off which is nice. Newer 3’s and Y’s can have those “SEXY” buttons installed which can act as an off switch. Need that for the truck now.

 

[wtibbit]

Yeah so long story short, it doesn’t.

It does shut the wiper off until you use adaptive cruise and it has a false rain positive from the cameras and then it wipes the glass. Using FSD or in our case adaptive cruise overrides the off setting for the wiper and sets them to auto essentially while the feature is in use since there is no radar and adaptive cruise is vision only. My 2017 S with FSD has a physical switch for wipers and I can leave them off which is nice. Newer 3’s and Y’s can have those “SEXY” buttons installed which can act as an off switch. Need that for the truck now.

If thine wiper offend thee, pluck off.

(I wouldn't do this myself, but I'm pretty sure there are people here who would make a production of it for their YouTube channel.)

https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybe...UID-79B87D3B-A602-47F6-8682-B1F02F8637A4.html

 

[BeastForce1]

If thine wiper offend thee, pluck off.

(I wouldn't do this myself, but I'm pretty sure there are people here who would make a production of it for their YouTube channel.)

https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybe...UID-79B87D3B-A602-47F6-8682-B1F02F8637A4.html

That might be the way haha

 

[BeastForce1]

Checking in to see if anyone has found a way yet. Now that it’s winter and the brain trusts at Tesla have decided to make the wiper activate constantly with the latest FSD v13 update when it’s dry out all it’s doing is making it impossible to see by smearing dry salt over an otherwise clean windshield. Between the dry wipes and the fact that the wiper fluid is useless at the far end of the wiper it literally makes it harder for the cameras to see by turning on for no reason.

Got my first camera blocked notification with a picture of the camera when I got home today and the glass was clean when I started driving. I need a way to stop the wiper from activating it’s my only complaint on this truck.

 

[Crissa]

Stop using FSD, maybe even TACC, and your problem is solved.

-Crissa

 

[BeastForce1]

Stop using FSD, maybe even TACC, and your problem is solved.

-Crissa

Super helpful. Thanks for the advise.

 

[rlhamil]

Yeah so long story short, it doesn’t.

It does shut the wiper off until you use adaptive cruise and it has a false rain positive from the cameras and then it wipes the glass. Using FSD or in our case adaptive cruise overrides the off setting for the wiper and sets them to auto essentially while the feature is in use since there is no radar and adaptive cruise is vision only. My 2017 S with FSD has a physical switch for wipers and I can leave them off which is nice. Newer 3’s and Y’s can have those “SEXY” buttons installed which can act as an off switch. Need that for the truck now.

AFAIK, as of FSD 13, every time you enable FSD, it now switches wipers to auto (makes sense in theory, esp. since FSD needs windshield clear). So every time it does that, you just turn them off again, at least until they fix the auto sensitivity.

There is no extra setting to tell it not to set auto wiper along with FSD.

 

[BeastForce1]

AFAIK, as of FSD 13, every time you enable FSD, it now switches wipers to auto (makes sense in theory, esp. since FSD needs windshield clear). So every time it does that, you just turn them off again, at least until they fix the auto sensitivity.

There is no extra setting to tell it not to set auto wiper along with FSD.

Here’s an extra little annoying part of how it currently works. It doesn’t set the wipers to auto when you engage FSD but it does monitor for rain. Once it detects “rain” that’s when it sets the wipers to auto. So basically auto is on in the background but then once a false trigger is set off it’s now fully switched to auto on. When auto is set to on it false triggers more than just when you’re in FSD. So now every time the wiper dry wipes I hit the voice controls and tell it to set wipers to off in order to at least lower the amount it triggers a little bit. Honestly the flase triggers weren’t that horrible in v12 but v13 they are on a whole other level of buggy.

 

[Crissa]

Super helpful. Thanks for the advise.

Well, it's true. As long as these systems rely upon the wiper, they will turn it back to auto.

It would be nice if they remembered to change it back when you're done, but... then they might accidentally turn off the wipers altogether when you needed them.

-Crissa

 

[BeastForce1]

Well, it's true. As long as these systems rely upon the wiper, they will turn it back to auto.

It would be nice if they remembered to change it back when you're done, but... then they might accidentally turn off the wipers altogether when you needed them.

-Crissa

Auto wipe is forever off in all my Tesla’s the system is complete garbage.

 

[Crissa]

Auto wipe is forever off in all my Tesla’s the system is complete garbage.

That's not true. Unless they don't have FSD and no vision based TACC.

-Crissa

 

[BeastForce1]

That's not true. Unless they don't have FSD and no vision based TACC.

-Crissa

In my 2017 p100d S there is a physical switch on the stalk that I can put to the off position that overrides FSD wipes. But I was referring to just turing the setting to off always in my 3 and the Cybertruck. 3 is actually 2.5 hw so no FSD but it still uses cameras for auto wipe I just leave it set to off it as always useless. Even the 3 you can Install the “sexy buttons” to override the wiper if you need to. I’m hoping someone comes out with something similar for the Cybertruck to just override the wiper completely.

 

[REM]

Best thing I have found so far is to move the wiper settings to your hot bar, and change it to "off" soon as you engage FSD.

Dry wiping my perfectly clean windshield has been the most infuriating thing that Tesla has not seemed to fix in at least the past 3 years. I like to keep all my glass spotless, and this is a huge peeve.

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