Things I'd like to improve on my Skoda:

[Transporter]

I can't understand how mine work either. Driving straight into the afternoon sun on a cloudless day and the headlights come on. I have no idea why.

It is possible to adjust the sensitivity with VCDS (vag-com), also make sure that the windscreen is clean where the sensor is (I don't assume that you don't know about that). The system works very well on our 2 VW's.

[pwcar]

The auto lights are a bit funny sometimes, one day last week they came on in broad daylight and would not go off.

[woofy]

The auto lights work perfectly on ours, never had an issue. The rain sensor works ok, i quite often find it won't come on if the windscreen is wet after staring though, works once i have flicked the lever off then on again though.

[aslsw]

After having had the RS for a month now, a couple of things that are 'weird' spring to mind:

- if the key is out of the ignition, there is no clock. On the Commodore, the time displays on the stereo all of the time,
- if the key is on accessories, the stereo continues to work but the steering wheel controls don't. Again, on the Commodore the steering wheel controls (volume etc) work whenever the stereo works,
- can't turn the stereo on from the steering wheel controls. On the Commodore ...
- the stereo on know is furthest from the driver. Yes, I guess it is closest in left-hand drive form but couldn't they have swapped it over?
- MDI fails intermittently with my iPhone, although my wife has 100% success with hers.
- no rhyme or reason to the auto wipers. Sometimes they wipe twice with a mere drop on the windscreen, othertimes nothing happens as water streams off the side. Maybe I need to play a bit more. Also, it seems to need motion to start working, which means you need to flick the switch before you move off in really bad weather.

All of these can be lived with, but after 8 years with the Commodore maybe I'm having a hard time letting go.

Happy to be educated or told to go back and read the manual!

[K1W1]

- no rhyme or reason to the auto wipers. Sometimes they wipe twice with a mere drop on the windscreen, othertimes nothing happens as water streams off the side. Maybe I need to play a bit more. Also, it seems to need motion to start working, which means you need to flick the switch before you move off in really bad weather.

The little control switch on top of the wiper stalk seems to adjust the sensitivity of the auto wipe (sort of like a variable intermittent control). The more to the left the more sensitive and more often the wipers work. Having said that the auto wipers do still seems to be a bit of a mystery and mine occasionally need a flick of the wiper stalk to get going.

[dodgey]

Having said that the auto wipers do still seems to be a bit of a mystery and mine occasionally need a flick of the wiper stalk to get going.

Having come from a GTI, the annoyances with the lights and the wipers seem normal to me. There are odd occasions when the lights come on when it's still bright, and when the wipers just ghost wipe, or not start at all. I have no answer to it, and take it as an idiosyncracy of the VAG electrics. A change in sensor for a friend's GTI seemed to help a lot, but I think our cars already have the new type of sensor..

That said, if you use any additive or put anything on your windscreen (like Rain-X) the wipers tend to wipe more often when there no requirement to... (My experience anyway)

[woofy]

I think when there is water on the screen after it has been turned off, the car when its started "blanks" the sensor so it thinks the water there is background. The flicking off and on when moving probably makes it reset and then realise the water isn't background.....it never happens any other time for me, and that explanation makes the most sense to me, as I have seen other equipment do that.

[K1W1]

That makes sense to me. I guess sometimes we give computers credit for being smarter than they actually are.

[pwcar]

Yes, I'd thought that the sensor must sense "change", rather than the rain itself. So when you start the car with raindrops all over the windscreen there is no change and they don't start, but once you force one wipe they then sense the fresh raindrops and manage themselves.

[aslsw]

Personally, I assumed it detected movement of water ie. water stationary on the screen isn't detected, but when it starts moving past the sensor the wipers come on.