Question time or am i just blind?

[phil67]

Im still trying to do the auto mirror/rain sensor upgrade but i am struggling to see how the rain sensor is secured?

1) Is it just stuck onto the window?
2) Secured to the mirror somehow?
3 What are the metal bits on the both ends of the sensor for?
4) Ask some one close to me for some help?

All these questions and thats before i even get outside to the car.

Thanks

[lofty]

The sensor is attached in two ways.

1. Suction to the windscreen
2. The windscreen itself has a mounting point that the two metal clips on the sensor attach to.

[phil67]

Thanks, i havent got a proper windscreen, so if mine broke and i said i had the rain sensor does the windscreen come with the mounting point or do i need to order a part.

[lofty]

Yep, if yours broke somehow (like mine did) they'll ask if you have rain sensing wipers, and now yours does (have they been tech2'd yet?) then you can say yes

[phil67]

ok thats sort of the lines i was working on, whats the likelyhood they will want to test it?

Now where is that insurance document and how shall it be broken?

[phil67]

ok thats sort of the lines i was working on, whats the chances they will want to test it?

Now where is that insurance document and how shall it be broken?

[plasma]

the metal clips are part of the bracket attached to the windscreen, you get your fingernails underneath the outer edges and pull it gently up towards you, they are like little wings and are hinged at the outer edges respectively. HTH

my windscreen broke because of a 'bit of stone' hit the very very edge where it is weakest and a crack appeared instantly

[lofty]

ok thats sort of the lines i was working on, whats the chances they will want to test it?

Now where is that insurance document and how shall it be broken?

Doubt they'd be bothered.. I just told the guy I thought someone must have fit the wrong windscreen at some point..showed him the loom and said the sensor was somewhere in the garage.. they just want to fit whatever screen they have.

[phil67]

Got the hinged brackets on the sensor but no fixing on the window yet

[phil67]

£70 excess