frontlinegeek
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OK, so here this goes....
There was a thread PSA warning people about the wipers on the 2022 Civics and the edge of the hood. I am here to bring everyone up to speed (Those that aren't) as to the totality of this "feature".
On the 2022 Civic, there is actually a maintenance mode. The info is on page 615 in the Canadian manual but is generally quite simple. Turn the car power (but not engine) on, then off, then press the wiper stalk up to mist for 2 seconds. The wipers will go into a full up position and stay there until you do the same procedure to put them back in normal mode.
Yes, you can manually move the wiper arms yourself. However, you will be in for a real treat and a brown pants moment if, like I did last night, you have the wipers in what you thought was a safe position while washing the car and then turning the car on to move it into the garage to finish with dry and detail. Those wiper arms reset completely when you power on if you don't have the wipers in maintenance mode!!! I definitely dropped an F bomb. I was EXTREMELY fortunate and only suffered slight "white" witness marking along the edge at the two points of contact. I was able to clean them up and all is well. But you may not be so fortunate.
I have also sent an email to the head of sales at my dealership to pass on that they should add a delivery step of informing the customers of this, clearly, new and more complicated way of dealing with wipers. In particular, because no one is reading a 701 page manual, let alone remembering everything from it.
Cheers and safe wiper usage!!! LOL!!!
There was a thread PSA warning people about the wipers on the 2022 Civics and the edge of the hood. I am here to bring everyone up to speed (Those that aren't) as to the totality of this "feature".
On the 2022 Civic, there is actually a maintenance mode. The info is on page 615 in the Canadian manual but is generally quite simple. Turn the car power (but not engine) on, then off, then press the wiper stalk up to mist for 2 seconds. The wipers will go into a full up position and stay there until you do the same procedure to put them back in normal mode.
Yes, you can manually move the wiper arms yourself. However, you will be in for a real treat and a brown pants moment if, like I did last night, you have the wipers in what you thought was a safe position while washing the car and then turning the car on to move it into the garage to finish with dry and detail. Those wiper arms reset completely when you power on if you don't have the wipers in maintenance mode!!! I definitely dropped an F bomb. I was EXTREMELY fortunate and only suffered slight "white" witness marking along the edge at the two points of contact. I was able to clean them up and all is well. But you may not be so fortunate.
I have also sent an email to the head of sales at my dealership to pass on that they should add a delivery step of informing the customers of this, clearly, new and more complicated way of dealing with wipers. In particular, because no one is reading a 701 page manual, let alone remembering everything from it.
Cheers and safe wiper usage!!! LOL!!!
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