I’m working my way through the Owners’ Tome and online references. Found a comment on a site that sells bike carriers: the rear wipers come on automatically in reverse and will be destroyed by this bike carrier. So I checked my Tome and on page 200, sure enough it says something about it. “When you put the transmission into R with the windshield wipers activated, the rear wiper operates automatically as follows even if its switch is off” followed by an informative graphic which seems to say if the front wipers are set for INT or AUTO, the rear wiper will turn on intermittently, and if the front wipers are set for LO or HI it will operate continuously.
There is nothing on the “Automatic Intermittent Wipers” page about the rear wiper, just a reminder to turn off the Auto setting before driving through a car wash. Am I understanding this correctly?
1. With front wipers set to Auto, the front wipers will activate once, then go into a waiting mode and activate again if the car detects “rain”.
2. The rear wiper will not automatically activate in the rain unless it has been turned on via its separate control.
3, BUT, if you have the front wiper set to anything except Off, and shift into reverse - say, to back out of a garage or parking spot - the rear wiper will start up whether it is raining or not. So if there is anything like a bike carrier attached to the rear windshield area, be sure to turn the FRONT wipers to OFF before driving.
Do I understand this correctly? The rear wiper won’t come on, even in the rain, unless I turn it on? And it will come on if I put the car into reverse, even if it’s turned off, if the front wipers are set to INT, LO, HI,or AUTO - anything but Off?
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I think if I attach such a carrier I will at least put a sticker on it reminding me to turn off the main wipers, and hope that it doesn’t start raining when I’m biking.
There is nothing on the “Automatic Intermittent Wipers” page about the rear wiper, just a reminder to turn off the Auto setting before driving through a car wash. Am I understanding this correctly?
1. With front wipers set to Auto, the front wipers will activate once, then go into a waiting mode and activate again if the car detects “rain”.
2. The rear wiper will not automatically activate in the rain unless it has been turned on via its separate control.
3, BUT, if you have the front wiper set to anything except Off, and shift into reverse - say, to back out of a garage or parking spot - the rear wiper will start up whether it is raining or not. So if there is anything like a bike carrier attached to the rear windshield area, be sure to turn the FRONT wipers to OFF before driving.
Do I understand this correctly? The rear wiper won’t come on, even in the rain, unless I turn it on? And it will come on if I put the car into reverse, even if it’s turned off, if the front wipers are set to INT, LO, HI,or AUTO - anything but Off?
I think if I attach such a carrier I will at least put a sticker on it reminding me to turn off the main wipers, and hope that it doesn’t start raining when I’m biking.
