Can this be disabled on our new trucks? It's a good feature when it's dry and you are just spraying off your windshield but when there is salt being kicked up that last single wipe makes it worse and very dangerous. I am hoping someone has figured out how to defeat this.

 

Manually turn on the wiper, then turn it off, like in the old days.

 

It's not that easy - if you're pushing the button for washer fluid, you can't get the wipers to not do that extra delayed wipe (the owner's manual calls it a "courtesy wipe").

I agree with the original poster - it's a great feature in the summer, but it sucks royally in the winter. The delay is just enough for some salt spray to get on the windshield, which the extra wipe then smears terribly.

We need a nice easy way to disable that for winter.

 

I doubt there is a way to disable it, it's probably written into the programming. Just press the washer button until fluid comes out and then turn the windshield wipers manually on and off real quick, that might override it.

 

This works on my 08 Also.

 

It does override it but the thing is up here in the winter you need to hold the button in for a long time to get enough spray on to clear the windshield. Sometimes on the highway you can hold it in for 5 plus seconds, clear the windshield, and within a minute or so be doing it all over again. This sequence will go for an hour or two and then you run out of fluid. The extra wipe makes it even more difficult and very unsafe.

 

Don't follow people so close, your windshied won't get as dirty.

 

Geez, and I actually complimented Ford on that very feature in my survey.

 

I love it as well, but I'm sure it doesn't help in this particular situation.

 

Too funny here in SoCal it's a great feature to have...but having lived in Chicago - I can see how it would be a pain in the Winter months...

 

Check out where I live - and I really do like the feature. Go figure.

 

The way I get around it is, right after the last of the initial wipes (bu before the few seconds before the courtesy wipe) I immediately turn it one click to do a one wipe, right after the first wipes, without a lag in between. The courtesy wipe never comes on then.

 

Great ideas folks, thanks. I'll try that Johnwill.
I don't follow too close, I am the guy in the far right lane with the cruise on at 108 km/h (I get great mpg at this speed). It's the train of transport trucks that kick up a mist of salt water for miles at a time that make this feature unsafe/annoying.
Like others said here, in the summer this feature is fantastic! That said I have survived the past 20 years of driving without it...

I hope Ford is cognizant of the situation and can offer a solution sometime soon.

 

Every now and again a manufacturer develops a feature they feel would be beneficial to the consumer. Once it gets out in real world situations it doesn't work as well as they hoped and it gets dropped from future models. This may be one of those things.

 

I have been in other vehicles that could definitely benefit from this feature but the 150 doesn't seem to have the same 'drooling' problem after the windshield is cleaned. IMO it is an unnecessary feature and should be removed if drivers are finding it hazardous.