I was going to complain about how long the wipers interval was (7 seconds) when set on the shortest setting. Just yesterday I realized the interval control is reversed compared to my 2006 Prius. The "larger" triangle on the knob means faster (on my 2006, "smallest" triangle is fastest setting)
Yeah.. I think it is backwards too.. in my Infiniti, the direction you turned the knob was like "wiper delay".. so the thinner end of that "white wedge" meant faster intermittent wiper operation (less delay). In the Toyota (which I first noticed on our Sienna), the white wedge seems to represent "wiper frequency".. so the thinner portion would mean "lower" wiper frequency.
OK, I am glad I was not the only one that got thrown for a loop by this reversal! Wonder why they did it, intentional or an accident?
Is this a "Toyota vs. the rest of the world" difference that has been around for a while, or is it something new? I am sure that it is not an accident that it is the way it is.
We used to own a Honda before the Sienna. I'm almost positive the Honda was backwards from the Toyota, which is what made me think about it in the first place. So from my memory-limited experience: Infiniti and Honda are the same Toyota is backwards
No. The GenII Prius was normal in that the longer white lines increased the delay. It is the opposite on the GenIII 2012. Now the shorter white lines increase the delay. Confused the hell out of me at first. I drove for nearly a week thinking this was as slow as I could set the wipers. lol
What about the 2010 and 2011 models? Where they backward too? How has no one at the factory or ports or the Dealers noticed this? Wow.
They started in 2010. Now the white "fan" dictates speed (i.e. wiper frequency) rather than time (i.e. wiper delay). The other controls were changed to symbols too with the headlight stalk replacing OFF with a hollow dot (or circle) and the headlight symbol with solid dot, the wipers changed from MIST, OFF, INT, LO, HI to symbols of a windshield and wiper (with more dashes indicating higher speed) and the cruise control light on the dashboard went from "CRUISE" to a "speedo with an arrow pointing to a speed" icon.
I guess having them as words in a particular language is considered politically incorrect and discriminatory against people who don't understand that language. Now everyone has to pore through the User's Manual to figure out what those weird icons mean.
Have you rented other cars lately? Just about every make car that I have rented lately has gone to these standard international symbols.
