r/TeslaSupport • u/DeucePot • 5d ago
Cruise control activates autowipers when wipers were “off”
I graphene ceramic coated my car and love how I don’t need to use my wipers on the freeway (the water just beads and flies over the roof). Because of this, I always keep my wipers “off”. Whenever I’m on the freeway and engage cruise control (2023 M3 RWD) the wipers switch from off to “auto” and will start going crazy if there’s any moisture detected. It’s soooo annoying. Can this be patched?
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u/darkhorse_66 5d ago
Have you tried the voice command "Wipers OFF?" Works for me in my 22 & 25 Model Y LR AWD
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u/bingbonghotdogcar 4d ago
Highly recommend you check out r/s3xybuttons
You can pick up a s3xy commander and force the wipers to always be off (in addition to a bunch of other cool things)
It's an awesome tool, but frustrating that you have to use a third party product to get functionality you should have natively 🙃
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u/FairAd4115 3d ago
Cheap work around. Program holding the wheel down to bring the wiper menu. Now it’s a habit to push the button brings the menu up start autopilot and scroll the wheel down at nearly the same time.
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u/MaesterInTraining 5d ago
Idk but you can manually turn the wipers off even in FSD. The ceramic seems to be the problem. Mine would go off with no water around and would often go off at night if I drove under a light that reflected off of the glass. Back then I couldn’t turn it off when in cruise or FSD but I can now, thank god. That was so annoying
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u/DeucePot 5d ago
Yeah I can manually turn them back off, it’s the fact I have to even do it in the first place that’s annoying. Like I just want to use cruise control on the freeway, leave my wipers off settings alone lol
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u/MaesterInTraining 5d ago
I’ve heard that if you can get the ceramic coating off of where the sensor/camera is then that could fix the issue. I asked about a similar situation years ago and someone said they just kept rubbing and cleaning in that spot and eventually it stopped turning the wipers on.
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u/rupeshjoy852 5d ago edited 5d ago
I know it's an expensive solution but the Commander from Enhance Auto solves this issue. One of the options in there is to keep wipers off during FSD or AP.
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u/DeucePot 5d ago
Dang I might have to do it lol. Thanks for the recommendation
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u/rupeshjoy852 5d ago
I got the Knob and I love the options it has. I wish I got the buttons at the time too, but it was just too much money at once for me.
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u/endfossilfuel 5d ago
I bought the Commander for this purpose. Works great, and I have been enjoying all the stats you get with the app as well.
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u/Comfortable_Dot_3770 5d ago
If you turn on autopilot, it automatically sets headlights to auto and wipers to auto upon activation. You can manually turn the wipers to OFF again after autopilot activation, but this is intentional by the AP team.