The rain sensor is behind the driving mirror in contact with the windscreen and has the purpose of automatically adjust, during the intermittent operation, the frequency of the windscreen wiper strokes as to the rain intensity.
The sensor has a range of adjustment that gradually varies between wiper stationary (no wiping) when the windscreen is dry, to wiper at first continuous speed (continuous slow) with heavy rain.
See also:
EOBD system
The EOBD system (European On Board Diagnosis) allows continuos diagnosis of the
components of the car correlated with emissions.
It also alerts the driver, by the turning on of the warning light
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Traction Control System (TCS)
This system monitors the amount of wheel spin of each of the driven wheels. If
wheel spin is detected, brake pressure is applied to the slipping wheel(s) and engine
power is reduced to provide enh ...
Jacking the vehicle
WITH THE JACK
See “If a tyre is punctured”, in this section.
The jack should only be used to change a wheel on the vehicle for which it
was designed. It should not be put to other uses or employe ...