Okay, so I'm one of those morons who had NO idea that the right passenger mirror actually tilted down when you threw it in reverse. Figured that one out about 2 days after I got the car. (Make sure your side view mirror control switch is set to middle, though).

Well, just yesterday I had another pleasant "surprise" about the car. We had a heavy downpour in the San Diego area last night, and I turned my wipers on. They were going as normal, and I came to a stop at a light. I thought I hit the timer dial on accident because the frequency of the wipes suddenly decreased. So I turned the dial again, and things seemed okay. The light turned green, I pressed the gass and the blades wiped like normal. Came to another stop, and same thing -- my blades suddenly went into intermittent mode. Figuring this was by design, I tested it at the next light, and sure enough, when you're driving it wipes at normal speed, but when you stop, it goes into intermittent mode. The question is, why is this useful? Saves on wear and tear, perhaps?

So have you found any other easter eggs?

Danny

 

This is not a flame. Read your owner's manual, sounds like you are in for many happy surprises!

 

its to keep the same wiper pace. when you are driving at 45 you set the wipers to a delay that you like but when you slow down or stop there is no need to clean the windsheild as often as you do when you are traviling at 45+ just a nifty feature i like

 

Heh, thanks for not flaming. I realize the manual has stuff in it, but c'mon -- who actually reads up on how to operate their windshield wiper?

Danny

 

i did.

 

Hahahaha!! It takes me about a month to realize that my side mirror moves down when its in reverse. First i thought it was just me or somethings wrong with the mirror. I did it a couple times and i say to myself geezz...this is weird. So then one day while driving my friend home from skool, he noticed it too and said to me "oh thats cool! the mirror moves just like my dad's lexus". i just gave him a grin.
BTW, this is my first car.

 

Not meant to be a flame, but I did. The manual makes for a good piece of reading material when you are on the can.

axleback

 

 

Have You also noticed that your Center Console arm Rest is adjustable ???--Best thing to do as others have suggested Read the Owners manual !!!

 

HAHA, I read my manual once a day for the first couple days I had my TLS. I learned a few things.

DID you know, that you can leave your headlights on, leave the car, they turn off, when you come back to the car and hit your UNLOCK button on the remote, the headlights with LIGHT up?? This is a good feature to use if you are parked in a shady, remote, unfamiliar area. A good self safety feature.

Of course, this means your putting more wear and tear on your HIDs, but ......


BTW: I hardly use this feature.

 

hhhmmmm....speed sensitive wipers

Yep they are pretty cool.

My salesman must have done a pretty good job, he told me about all this stuff.

 

Buncha wiseguys, lemme tell you. Heh. Okay, so what about things that are NOT documented? Anything?

Danny

 

i used this a lot, cuz it looks sooo cool when u unlock ur car, and your 6000k headlights and fogs light up! everyone around is like :wow:


and the mirror tilt is very useful for parellel parking too...my IS doesnt have it, and i've already scratched my rims a couple times from parking too close to the curb

 

We don't pass up a chance to have a little fun with people now and then

 

I did!! The owner manual actually becomes my bathroom reading in the beginning.

 

ooo oooh I got one for you.

Try this: turn on your interior lights (parking lights or headlights on)

ok, now look at your drivers' side arm rest where the individual controls for each window are...

Notice they all have a little green light? (and the separate controls on each door)

Now hit the button to prevent people from playing with the windows...


tada - all the little green lights go off except for the driver's window control

 

And another - the lamp inside the glove compartment never shuts off! hahahahahahahahahah (when you have the headlights/parking lights turned on)

 

One more (credit to pianoman on this one )

When you press the lock button on your keyless entry twice to 'hear it beep' you are activating the auto-lock mechanism. So the next time you hit unlock and don't open the door within a certain time the car automatically locks itself. Where as if you only locked up the car by hitting the button once it won't auto-lock on you

 

Put the car in "D" and it goes forward. "R", and it goes backwards.

 

I believe this is in the manual too...but if you are either in Park or in Neutral, you can only rev the engine up to 5k rpms. So you cant really hear the VTEC roar standing still.

 

Actually, I question as to whether or not the wipers are always speed-sensitive, based on two reasons:

1--When set to a long intermittent delay (wiper control has three positions--intermittent, low, and high; intermittent is where you can adjust the wipe interval anywhere from long to short delay with the dial)--it doesn't seem to me that the wiper delay is shorter the faster you drive (IOW--frequency of wiper increases with speed).

2--The '02 owner's manual states that when you turn the INT TIME ring to the shortest delay, the wipers will change from intermittent to low speed operation when vehicle speed exceeds 12 mph. This jives with what I found in #1 above--that wiper frequency doesn't appear to increase with vehicle speed when interval is set to longest delay.

So unless there is a problem with the "speed-sensitive" wipers on my car, I don't think the wipers are always speed-sensitive regardless of what position the wiper controls are at.

Also to add to the wiper "easter egg"--others have noted this in past threads but it isn't mentioned in the owner's manual as far as I can tell--with the wipers on, when you release the footbrake after a stop the wipers will perform a "courtesy" sweep regardless how recently the last wiper sweep occured.

 

I think this is wrong. The autolock feature works regardless of how many times you press the button.

Try it.

The beep is there only to use as a confirmation that you've locked it.

 

I love having my car sit in a dark parking lot or what-not and hitting the unlock button and having two BEAMS OF BRIGHT BLUE HID Light shining forth in the night. It looks cool, impresses friends and makes strangers jump, I love this car anyway but this feature is swwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

 

Are you on stock?? If you got the 6k with hid fog. it looks ten times better.

 

Hey what is those other wipers, I think MDX Has them, its like sensor wipers that automatically start when it rains or something like that?

 

I found it:

"The Touring Package includes a new rain-sensing function that automatically turns on wipers and adjusts their speed when it senses rain or mist on the windshield. "

-http://www.acura.com/models/model_comfort_amenities.asp?module=mdx

Hopefully these cool wipers will be on the new 2004 TL

 

I was wondering why did the code unlockers phase out..

My dad has it on his 94 Maxima ( 4 Code number opens your door - after u put in the code it unlocks all the doors, if u press the trunk button it will open the trunk, if u press the lock button it will relock the doors, and if u press the window button and hold it than it will open the front 2 windows as long as u hold and soon as u let go it stops rolling down so you can customizably put the windows down.. Its a neat feature especially on a 8 Year old car, why isnt it on cars now adays?
Doesnt the new Accord have a Window Open Feature with the Key Fob?

Isnt the Code thing COOL? I mean why dont they have it on cars anymore?

 

No, this is correct. Once it is activated (and obviously your car is activated since it does it), the only way to stop it from autolocking is to unlock the door manually with the key in the driver's door. Then, if you close the door it will not autolock.

 

You are correct on all counts. They are "speed-sensitive" only in the sense that they will change from shortest-delayed to continuous-low-speed operation above 12 m.p.h., provided you have the delay set at the shortest setting. They are not "smart" speed sensitive like some of the newer cars. And yes, the "courtesy wipe" when your foot comes off the brake works--but only if the car is at a standstill. If you are rolling and riding your foot on the brake (say, slowing around a corner and then accelerating again), the wipers will not do the courtesy wipe when you lift off the brake pedal.

 

Okay, here's another (for '02 and newer models only). If you hold down the 1 and 6 disc selector buttons on the radio before turning it on, it will display the unit's serial number on the display. Before this, if you lost your security code the dealer would have to pull the radio out and look at the back of the unit to read the S/N. A real pain in the a$$. Now you can retrieve it easily without taking anything apart.

EDIT: This does *not* work on my '02 TL-S. This was posted as a working solution in another thread for '02s and newer. I don't know if it is only certain newer head units or the '03s or what, but I cannot get this to work on mine.

 

I'm gonna go try that now! I just love finding new things on a car that I've had for over a year!

 

you know what i like best. The auto up on the driver window. Makes life alot easier when u have to go thru a ticket window everymorning.

 

Well - that didn't work.

I imagine we all know about the hidden navi menus... From the map, press and hold Menu->Map->Cancel. Do it in that order and hold down. You go to a series of diagnostic menus - BE CAREFUL WHEN IN HERE (you could mess up your system).

(You have to press all three VERY quickly - no delay between buttons...)

 

You misunderstood me, go back an re-read what I was responding to. I don't disagree with you on the fact that the only way to prevent "auto re-lock" is to unlock with the key. I'm positive though, that the "auto re-lock" feature works REGARDLESS of whether you push the remote button once or twice. The beep that occurs when you push the remote button twice is only to confirm that the doors are locked.

Try it. Push the remote button once, let the alarm arm itself, unlock using the remote and don't open a door. I'm positive that the doors will relock.

 

Responding to GoHawks63 reply regarding another poster (not pianoman41) who thought that the auto-lock is enabled only if you press the lock button on the remote twice in succession (and hearing the confirmation beep after the second press)--GoHawks63 is right. I did just what he suggested, and it did exactly as he said it would.

 

As tdoh said - you are absolutely correct. I just did it, and found that unlocking with the key in no way "turns off" autolock.

Unlocking with the key is an alternative to unlocking with the remote and opening/closing a door to make sure it won't autolock again. Autolock cannot be turned off.

 

I guess I must have misunderstood pianoman's other post regarding auto-lock, my bad :o

 

I saw the other thread where you were asking about - but am only going to post here (lazy...).

That 1-6 button combo only works when the radio unit is locked. I may be a bit of a geek, but I tried it this evening. The unit never responded to the 1-6 combo, unless I repeatedly entered the code wrong and locked the unit.

The other comment essentially saying "keep trying the correct code when the unit's locked" in that other thread was correct. You don't "lock" the unit. Entering the code correctly got me to a point where the unit was restored.

 

I thought my car was not normal before i read that :p



@cUr@-TL

 

This was a post from last year from Wayne G at PAA:

You make your own conclusions. I think Wayne would know what he's talking about.