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.
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Engine codes - bodywork versions
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Inflating procedure
Put on the protection gloves provided together with quick tyre repair kit.
– Pull up the handbrake. Loosen tyre inflation valve cap, take out the filler
hose A-fig. 16c and screw the ring nut B-fi ...
“Dualdrive” electric power steering system
The electric power steering only works when the ignition key is at MAR and the
engine is running. A new electrically controlled power steering system called “Dualdrive”
is fitted on the Fiat Pun ...