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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Pretensioners
To increase the efficiency of the front seat belts, the Fiat Punto is fitted
with pretensioners. These devices “feel”, through a sensor, that a violent crash
is in progress and rewind the seat bel ...
Heating/climate control system
Version with central dashboard unit
A - Fixed side vents - B - Adjustable side outlets - C - Fixed upper vent - D
- Fixed central vent - E - Lower vents
Version with central tunnel unit
A - F ...
MMT In Gasoline
MMT is a manganese containing metallic additive that is blended into some gasoline
to increase the octane number.
Gasoline blended with MMT offers no performance advantage beyond gasoline of
the ...