D4 auto wipers not working after windscreen replacement

As I understand things the sensor pad can be moved from one windscreen to another (very carefully), failing that you will need a new sensor pad adhered to your replacement screen.

I am on windscreen number 4 or is it 5 ??? Anyhow I have the 'elcheapo' version in the car now and it seems to stand up to the minor everyday hits better than the OEM screens I had. After four moves from windscreen to windscreen the sensor gave up the ghost and needed to be replaced.

Once the new one was fitted it all worked fine!

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Originally Posted by discotwinturbo

Peter, they told me today (Cannington) they could order me the LR one, but the Chinese ripoff worked well for two others they recently fixed.....so I guess they have an elcheapo one now.

Got a friggen big hit, two days out from our trip to Tassie.....I will get by though.

Happy Christmas mate.

Brett...

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Hey Brett, got the camper sorted then.:) Hope you do manage to get by.

What the Midlands 'Instant' mob said is the after market D4 screens are a different colour to the genuine glass, so no direct equivalent.

Quote from Instant to replace the screen with genuine glass was a couple of hundred less than what Southern quoted for genuine and Instant sources their glass from Southern, go figger. In the end what it cost don't mean much to me - it's an insurance job and I have a $500 excess. ie same price to me whether after market 'el chepo' (~$650 I think) or genuine (~$1100) so I ask for and get genuine.

Instants in Kalgoorlie replaced mine a little while back too - they used an OEM screen and sourced it from Barbagallo.

Have a good trip over there Brett. We only got back from 8 weeks travelling over that way a few weeks ago. It's bloody warm up here in Kal at the moment.

Merry Christmas to all ....................

I had mine replaced on my D3 by Windscreens O'Brien and i had the same issue.
They had forgotten the reconnect the connector for the sensor above the rear vision mirror.:D

Me too with the D3, new windscreen and the sensor wasn't reconnected.
Regards,
Tote

I refitted the fuse for the auto wipers prior to having my latest screen replacement so that I could test that the sensor was working properly before driving away. I thought I'd have another try at using auto wipers but it took only 1 lot of showers to know that I need to remove the fuse again.

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Originally Posted by Rockylizard

Gday...

Dunno if the D3 and D4 screens are the same but when I got a replacement windscreen from O'Briens in Townsville and the auto wipers did not work.

They could not find the reason why and referred it to the dealer in Townsville. They checked it out and apparently it needed a "re-install" of the software. Cost $72 (paid for by O'Briens) and it hasn't failed since.

Cheers - John

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Thanks John, I'll contact them tomorrow to see if I have the same success. Cheers!

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Originally Posted by mbecker7

I had mine replaced on my D3 by Windscreens O'Brien and i had the same issue.
They had forgotten the reconnect the connector for the sensor above the rear vision mirror.:D

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Thanks, I'll see if I can figure out how to remove the cover (without breaking something!) and check the wiring

Cheers
Mark

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Originally Posted by Graeme

I refitted the fuse for the auto wipers prior to having my latest screen replacement so that I could test that the sensor was working properly before driving away. I thought I'd have another try at using auto wipers but it took only 1 lot of showers to know that I need to remove the fuse again.

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So are you saying that pulling the fuse out and putting it back in again resets it or something and gets it working again?

No, removing the fuse disables auto wipers and turns the sensitivity control into intermittent delay control.