"Tim+" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:51:02 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Wipers have long had an unswitched power feed to allow parking
after
you ve turned the ignition off.

Really? Again, which makes? I've not had that on any car. But my cars
are never new. ;-)

Not known the wipers to be on a totaly unswitched feed. "Accessory"
position of a traditional ignition key on the other hand. As in
"Off", "Accessory", "Run" and "Start".

Yes. In my experience, self-parking wipers are only any use if you pause in
the Accessory position after turning off the engine, until the wipers have
parked. And how many of us do that? Many times I've had the wipers park
themselves only when I next come to the car and turn the ignition on.

Now I always turn my wipers off at the stalk before turning off the ignition
key, because that is less fiddly than trying to hit Accessory as opposed to
Off to trigger the wipers to park themselves without removing all power so
they stay put half-way across the screen.