Rear wiper is making a right scrawping noise (should probably replace it tbf) but decided to disable the auto rear wiper in the meantime.

 

Be aware, the 'wipe automatically in the rain' setting doesn't appear to do anything (although it's unclear whether this refers to the front or rear wiper'). To disable the auto rear wipe I had to disable the 'Rear window wiping in reverse gear' option, which appears to have disabled both auto rear wiping and wiping in reverse gear.

 

Personally I never found turning the rear wiper on manually a particular chore so no idea why this is an option.

 

I'm sure it will be fixed in an update.

 

TSi Manual Estate, SW version 1896.

Nice work, and love the scrawping word, perfect.

The Kodiaq is exactly the same. I hated the rear wiper doing its auto wipe, mostly on a dry screen , like yourself it took a while to find that turning off the rear wipe when reverse selected stopped the automatic rear wipe.

Flicking the rear wipe when required and when reversing is much preferred than a wiper scraping across a dry screen.

I doubt it will be removed with any update. This option is there since the beginning of the car production in 2020. I have both options set to off since the day I bought the car. Completely useless to me.

27 minutes ago, TheUltraRunner said:

I doubt it will be removed with any update. This option is there since the beginning of the car production in 2020. I have both options set to off since the day I bought the car. Completely useless to me.

It was also there on the previous Octavia 3 from 2013, VAG seem to think it's a useful option ⁉️

10 minutes ago, PetrolDave said:

It was also there on the previous Octavia 3 from 2013, VAG seem to think it's a useful option ⁉️

I haven't noticed it, I'll have a mooch in the menus.

Maybe if you live somewhere where it's constantly raining. 😁

1 hour ago, PetrolDave said:

It was also there on the previous Octavia 3 from 2013, VAG seem to think it's a useful option ⁉️

 

1 hour ago, EnterName said:

I haven't noticed it, I'll have a mooch in the menus.

Just turned it off on mine this morning 👍

I have never heard of auto rear wiping on any car, how would it know when the screen needed wiping? There's no camera on the rear screen. The wipe in reverse only activates after the front wipers have been activated by the detection of water on the windscdscreen. I use it until this time of year when the rear screen can be icy, I detest wipers grinding over frost. 

On 23/11/2022 at 09:10, TheUltraRunner said:

I doubt it will be removed with any update. This option is there since the beginning of the car production in 2020. I have both options set to off since the day I bought the car. Completely useless to me.

Yeah, I understand having the option available, the fix I was referring to was having one setting that doesn't appear to do anything and two options (wipe in reverse and auto wipe) controlled by the one setting.

13 hours ago, j caff said:

I have never heard of auto rear wiping on any car, how would it know when the screen needed wiping? There's no camera on the rear screen. The wipe in reverse only activates after the front wipers have been activated by the detection of water on the windscdscreen. I use it until this time of year when the rear screen can be icy, I detest wipers grinding over frost. 

 

It's not that intelligent, basically if the front wipers are on at a certain speed it will automatically turn on the intermittent rear wipe. It's reasonably useful (although I'm quite capable of turning it on myself!).

 

It's also useful to be able to disable it if you have a bumper mounted bike carrier which usually interact with the rear screen too.