[307] Window sensors.

I was wondering if anyone experienced the window sensors going a little bit
funny.

I have experienced problems with both the wipers and the lights. The lights
stay on when it is day light and the only time the lights goes off is when
the sun directly hits the sensor (morning time). The wipers sometimes are
at a very slow pace during hard rain and at little rain, the wipers are at
rapid pace.

Just can't win.

Any suggestions?

Kindest regards

 

Have had multiple trips back to the agent with lights that
come on in the dark after the car is put away for the night
in the garage. To the extent the battery is flat in the
morning.

Resetting the CPU and reloading the programme don't seem to
help for long
Has been abt. 10 days this time, so here's hoping.

No trouble w the wipers, but.


Cheers,
Murray

 

Hmmm. I've got an '02 206GTi with exactly the same problems. It's just
about to get its second COM2000. Maybe that will fix it.

 

I gave up with the automatic headlights. I found the sensor was just too
sensitive.

The most annoying thing I found was that the lights would come on if you
drove under any kind of bridge, even if you were in the shadow for only a
second or two. I switched off the auto setting after I had had a few people
flash at me because they thought I was flashing at them!

If only they had added a little bit of hysteresis to the sensor algorithm
e.g. only turn the lights on if the sensor had been in the dark for >5secs,
or if the average luminosity over a 10sec period was low enough to require
the lights on...

I also find the wipers to have a mind of their own Sometimes the auto
setting is excellent and they work at just the right pace to keep the window
clear. Other times they go into overdrive when only a few spits of rain have
hit the windscreen! I haven't managed to figure out why they are so erratic.
For a few weeks earlier this year I cleaned the windscreen sensor area every
morning before going to work to see if it made any difference and guess
what, it didn't have any affect at all!

 

My 406 HDI also has all these gadgets fitted. The auto headlight seems to
have noway to turn off, as soon as you enter a garage or shadow of a bridge,
it will turn on. The screen wiper seems to be driving speed related. With
the same level of rain fall, if the car goes faster, the wiper turns faster
too...

 

You cannot switch off the lights during driving and turning off and on the
car does put a strain on the starter for a while.

I will take it back to the dealer and pres a little hard on them to "get it
right"

The wipers you cannot do really anything about that.

Kindest regards

 

I've just bought a 307 after having a 306 for three years. The auto
lights are new to me, but I had the auto wipers on the old car.

The wipers seem to be driven by the number of raindrops, rather than
their size, so fine drizzle will get the wipers operating a lot more
than one would do manually, whereas a heavy shower with large droplets
causes the wipers to operate intermittently when one would have them
working continuously.

The auto lights seem to be working as they should in bright or dark
conditions (they turn themselves on as I drive into a poorly lit
multi-storey car park for instance), but there have been occasions
over the last couple of weeks where it was a dull morning but the
lights didn't operate, and another where the early morning sun was
quite bright, but the headlights came on. I don't know if the optical
sensor is cleared by the sweep of the wipers, so it might have been
dew on the screen that led to it thinking it was darker than it really
was.