Wiper Moves when turning off the car, is it normal??

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10-29-2013, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MarcusG

LOL.

Totally.

I thought my CLS was over engineered. The most quiet place in my house is not in my house at all. It's on the nice leather sofa in my garage. Summer evenings I'll go there to read. My Merc would make all kinds of buzzing, servo motor sounds and airmatic suspension leveling hours after I parked the car. I just kept thinking, man I don't think this car ever rests.

Just like the wipers, the clock (w/sport chron) and windows, the 911 sleeps even more restless than the Merc. It'll be "working" on all kinds of tasks after we park it.

I guess if you haven't spent any quality time with your 991 for a few hours after you park it you would never know!

Your Porsche never sleeps. Its "working" on monitoring YOU and sends back all sorts of data back to Deustchland!

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10-29-2013, 01:49 PM

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lol Kos,

Ain't that the truth.

The most organic German spyware. Hidden under the seats!

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10-29-2013, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by alexneo

The wipers move to change the position. The rubber life will be prolonged. If they stay for too long in the same position, eventually they will deform. All Audis and VWs have this feature.

Really? I have both a VW and an Audi and have never seen this. And my '07 Cayman S didn't either. Bizarre.

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10-30-2013, 04:16 PM

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i caught this thread out of the corner of my eye the other day but based on the title didn't open it up to see what was going on. i shut my car off and sure enough i noticed the exact same thing. thanks for this thread, great to know!!

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11-03-2013, 07:52 PM

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My C2S also moves the wiper blades at shutdown.

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11-04-2013, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by WCE

Seems like a good feature if it keeps the wipers from taking a set and becoming less effective, but between this and the constant window lowering and raising, I hope Porsche has the durability issues worked out!

The Window going up and down is a necessary issue. In the 991 (i do not know about the 996 or 997) the windows recesses behind the car frame there is no door frame for the window, so in order to open the door the window has to go down a couple ¨cm¨in order to clear he frame, same with closing.

In the 993 it was not necessary because the door had the window frame.

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07-29-2019, 02:02 PM

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Very proud of myself for finding this thread before starting a new one! 😊

The pulsing of wipers and occasionally windows seemed very strange...glad there is a good reason for it. German attention to detail!

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07-29-2019, 02:06 PM

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Wipers pulse and windows jump on shut down. When left alone in the garage, I’ve noticed the car jumps up and down wanting to go for another run. I leave the light and the tv on in the garage so she doesn’t cry.