Let me start with pointing out that my Octavia has no automatic wipers and no RLH sensor. 

 

Today’s rainy evening in Skopje made me notice that the wipers “slow down” when you stop. It is especially noticeable if they are set to continuous. They switch to interval as soon as the speed reaches 0 km/h. It was something that i used to do manually on my Kia. 

 

Simply clever 😉 

1 hour ago, damjanev said:

Let me start with pointing out that my Octavia has no automatic wipers and no RLH sensor. 

 

Today’s rainy evening in Skopje made me notice that the wipers “slow down” when you stop. It is especially noticeable if they are set to continuous. They switch to interval as soon as the speed reaches 0 km/h. It was something that i used to do manually on my Kia. 

 

Simply clever 😉 

 

My Focus used to stop the continuous wiping when getting below about 5mph (and switched to intermittent) - and would switch back on driving off above 5mph 😁 Unfortunately it didn't have the physical circuitry to actually slow down like the wipers do on my Octavia!

On my old citroen, the intermittent wiper timing was proportionate to the travelling speed. At 70mph they were no longer intermittent because the pause was so short. Meant you couldn't have intermittent wipers when driving at speed. Very unclever, long live the Czechs!

Both my Octavias did that. Went to intermittent when the car is stationary. On my current Octavia Mk3 I normally have wipers set to auto, so don’t see it so often. 

 

i am am sure it’s a standard feature rather than a fault. 

 

 

Yes, it is standard for non auto wipers. As I tend to use the fastest intermittent speed,  unless I'm  on a wet motorway, I rarely experience this feature.

Today is wet. I tried wipers on the continuous slower speed (not really needed) and I confirm that they do go onto intermittent when stationary or moving very slowly.