I'm driving to work this morning in a light rain with my wipers set on slow intermittent. Sitting at a stoplight, I watch the arms sweep across the windshield. The light turns green and the wipers sweep once more. I think to myself "the timing of that last sweep seems odd". I spend the next mile driving wondering if those clever Japanese engineers decided to give us a courtesy wipe whenever the car starts driving again. Time for the experiment...

At the next stoplight, I stop a bit early. I check the timing of the wipers, then, I let my foot off the brake. Wouldn't you know it? The wipers, when on intermittent, give a "courtesy wipe" when releasing my foot off the brake to make sure I have a clear field of vision when accelerating from a stop!

TL;DR: You get an extra sweep of the wipers when they're set on intermittent whenever the brake pedal is released.

Thanks Acura! That was mighty clever of you!

 

Don't mean to be mean, but there is an Owner's Manual that comes with most cars. If you have one a complete read might be helpful!!

 

Read the manual, skipped that part! Thought I would try to be helpful for the rest of us who don't RTFM ;-)

 

Don't do that....tell them to read that damn thing!


Actually there's already a thread on here about "surprising" finds in the systems....many of which are in that manual.