BMW 3 series E46

Since 1998 of release

Repair and car operation

Screen wipers and washer

The gauge of intensity of a rain

The gauge allows to regulate automatically frequency of work of screen wipers depending on intensity of a rain or a snowfall. It means that at the included gauge you should not care of inclusion any more both deenergizing of screen wipers and switching from one mode of their work on another. You can concentrate the attention to road completely. It is especially important under bad weather conditions and promotes большей to traffic safety and increase of convenience of driving.

If screen wipers are included on an interval operating mode they react at once, if, for example, on a windscreen of your car water from under wheels ahead of the going car has got.

The infra-red radiator directs through optical system light on a windscreen surface in such a manner that at dry glass this light is reflected completely. The gauge measures intensity of reflected light.

If has flown down it is covered by water drops reflexion degree decreases as infra-red light partially passes through glass. Intensity of reflected light allows to define degree of humidifying of a windscreen.

Gauge inclusion

After ignition key turn in position 1 or 2 translate the lever switch in position 1. There will be a single operation of screen wipers.

You can leave for long time the lever switch in position 1, and then to you will be enough the ambassador of turn of the ignition key in position 1
To include the gauge of intensity of a rain. For this purpose:

- Turn corrugated a castor 6 or
- Involve an automatic operating mode windscreen.

The corrugated castor 6 will allow you to regulate sensitivity of the gauge according to your wishes.

At journey of jet washers disconnect the gauge as inadvertent operation of screen wipers can lead to their breakage.

2 Work of screen wipers with a normal rate

At a car stop there is an automatic switching on an interval operating mode (it does not concern cars with the gauge of intensity of a rain).

3 Work of screen wipers with the raised frequency

At a stop of the car screen wipers work with a normal rate (it does not concern cars with the gauge of intensity of a rain).

5 Work windscreen in an automatic mode

Spraying of a windscreen by washing liquid is accompanied by short-term inclusion of screen wipers.

Short-term influence on the lever switch the washing liquid moves on a windscreen, but screen wipers do not join.

Washers фар*

If devices of illumination of the car at every fifth operation of washers of a windscreen in an automatic mode there is an automatic washing of headlights are included.

In order to avoid visibility deterioration it is necessary to use washers only in the event that freezing of a washing liquid on a windscreen is excluded.
Use a special nonfreezing liquid.

In order to avoid pump damage windscreen it cannot be included in the absence of a liquid in the tank.

Atomizers windscreen

Heating is carried out automatically * if the ignition key is thus in position 2.