Originally Posted by kristatos

I heartily disagree with your sentiment. The entire point of "rain-sensing" wipers is to turn it on and forget about it and let the car decide when they are needed. For sure we are supposed to turn them off but people will forget these things. It's a tough pill to swallow when you end up with a $1000 bill because something slipped your mind while pulling your screaming kid out of their seat while explaining to the attendant you don't want air-freshener before sending the car through the wash. Audi could have designed the wiper blade to break off before destroying the windscreen if they'd thought about it hard enough. Maybe none of the engineers at Audi have much else going on in their lives.

Originally Posted by DUTCH VanAtlanta

I think that's as close as you're going to get. I've driven Mercedes, Porsche, VW, my Q7 and lots of other brands; and have never had one with a manually settable/adjustable intermittent wiper from the factory.

By changing to a third party aftermarket relay in my MB G500, I can now manually adjust the intermittent wiper timing by how frequently I hit the wash button; i.e a kludge solution, but it works.