Volvo 2007 S80 - Manual (Page 74)

03 Your driving environment
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Wipers and washing
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Windscreen wipers
Windscreen wipers and windscreen washers
Rain sensor on/off
Thumbwheel sensitivity/frequency
Windscreen wipers off
Move the stalk switch to
position 0 to switch off the wind-
screen wipers.
Single sweep
Raise the stalk switch and release
to make one sweep.
Intermittent wiping
Set the number of sweeps per
time unit with the thumbwheel
when intermittent wiping is selected.
Continuous wiping
The wipers sweep at normal
speed.
The wipers sweep at high speed.
Rain sensor*
The rain sensor automatically starts the
windscreen wipers based on how much wa-
ter it detects on the windscreen. The sensitiv-
ity of the rain sensor can be adjusted using
the thumbwheel.
When the rain sensor is activated a light in
the button the rain sensor symbol
is
shown in the right-hand display in the com-
bined instrument panel.
Activating and setting the sensitivity
When activating the rain sensor, the car must
be running or in ignition position I or II while
the windscreen wiper stalk switch must be in
position 0.
Activate the rain sensor by pressing the
button
. The windscreen wipers make
one sweep.
Press the stalk switch up for the wipers to
make an extra sweep.
Turn the thumbwheel upward for higher sen-
sitivity and downward for lower sensitivity.
(An extra sweep is made when the thum-
bwheel is turned upward.)
Deactivating
Deactivate the rain sensor by pressing the
button
or move the stalk switch down
to another wiper program.
The rain sensor is automatically deactivated
when the key is removed from the ignition
switch or five minutes after the ignition is
switched off.
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IMPORTANT
Use plenty of washer fluid when the wipers
are cleaning the windscreen. The wind-
screen must be wet when the windscreen
wipers are operating.
IMPORTANT
The windscreen wipers could start and be
damaged in an automatic car wash. Deacti-
vate the rain sensor while the car is running
or in ignition position
I or II . The symbol in
the combined instrument panel and the light
in the button go out.