Rain sensing wipers message on startup normal?

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I recently fixed a good amount of electrical issues on my 2015 Tahoe LTZ and she’s finally good to go. I replaced the SCM, both blind spot sensors, and some damaged wiring. Prior to fixing all that I had tons of errors shown on the instrument cluster info screen as expected.


Now every time I start the car the info screen doesn’t show any errors(great) but it always says “rain sensing wipers active”. I don’t remember this being the case before my Tahoe took a $hit.

Is this normal operation?
 

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I recently fixed a good amount of electrical issues on my 2015 Tahoe LTZ and she’s finally good to go. I replaced the SCM, both blind spot sensors, and some damaged wiring. Prior to fixing all that I had tons of errors shown on the instrument cluster info screen as expected.


Now every time I start the car the info screen doesn’t show any errors(great) but it always says “rain sensing wipers active”. I don’t remember this being the case before my Tahoe took a $hit.

Is this normal operation?
isn't there is a switch or setting for rain sense?
 
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isn't there is a switch or setting for rain sense?

Yeah. I always have the switch set to ON. If I have it off the message won’t display.


I’m just wondering if it’s left on if it’s normal for the truck to always give a message upon startup that the rain sensing wipers are set to ON. I don’t remember how it used to work when the truck was normal lol. Kind of annoying that I get this message now.
 

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Yeah. I always have the switch set to ON. If I have it off the message won’t display.


I’m just wondering if it’s left on if it’s normal for the truck to always give a message upon startup that the rain sensing wipers are set to ON. I don’t remember how it used to work when the truck was normal lol. Kind of annoying that I get this message now.
I do not have rain sense on any of mine, but it seems like it would be normal so you are not surprised should the wipers kick on or if you were outside the vehicle with it running and just happened to be grabbing a leaf off of the window or something and get attacked by a wiper blade lol
 

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I recently fixed a good amount of electrical issues on my 2015 Tahoe LTZ and she’s finally good to go. I replaced the SCM, both blind spot sensors, and some damaged wiring. Prior to fixing all that I had tons of errors shown on the instrument cluster info screen as expected.


Now every time I start the car the info screen doesn’t show any errors(great) but it always says “rain sensing wipers active”. I don’t remember this being the case before my Tahoe took a $hit.

Is this normal operation?
Mine does this each start.
 
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Mine does this each start.

Thanks. Mystery solved.

I just didn’t remember because for the longest time when I started rhe car I had to hit OK through all these errors.

Stabilitrack error
Side detection sensor module errors
Stabilization system error
Level control system error
Park assist error
Front camera errors

Maybe I missed a few more. The auto wipers weren’t first on my mind lol.
 
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Yeah, mine does that as well as long as the switch is on, and the wipers are set to a position besides off
 

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