Just got a lease transferred 2012 Fit, I find it maddening that you have to press and hold the seek button for it to seek rather than tune. What is the point of having the middle dial as a tuning knob as well then.

Is there any way around this, I know its a first world problem but my other toyota echo had this too, guess its a japanese thing.

Anyways newbie would like to hear your advice.

Thanks

 

It should scan through the radio stations slowly after you press the button, I think it stays on each station like five seconds or so before it goes to the next one.

I usually just end up pressing it repeatedly if i'm in an unknown area until I find something I like though lol

 

Press only once and don't hold the button in. Seek should stop at the next station signal it finds.

 

I'm not entirely sure what Subie is talking about. Pressing the left/right button once tunes one step, and holding it for a moment seeks. I don't think there's any way to change that behavior.

You can also use the scan button, as Wanderer described (the "Scan" button), or you can seek by genre according to RDS by using the up/down arrows around the center knob to choose a genre and then tap the left or right arrow to find the next station.

 

I have had mine for 4 1/2 years. I think it is time to RTFM -)

 

DrewE is right in that is exactly how it works, just have to live with it I guess, not that big in the grand scheme of things, does have very good reception.

Another pet peeve is the lack of variable wipers, I've read the work around to get a new wiper stalk so will have to look into that as well.

Floor mats are next though, winter coming and the ones I have are just flat plastic.

 

Hopefully you have a MT, because it doesn't work for GE8's with automatic transmissions. If you do own a manual, you're good, but it's not just the stalk, you have to add a wire as well. The variable intermittent wiper mod is one of my favorite mods.

 

Its a GE9, 2012 is GE9 from what I understand but thanks for the heads up.

Anyone with floor mat suggestions?

 

Apologies, my bad. Was thinking of the Scan function in general.
Yup.

 

Yes, sorry I was thinking of the "scan" button. I don't think i've ever used the seek button unless I had a CD in.

You can pre-program 12 FM stations in, so when i'm in my home town I don't really ever need to seek for anything. Scan button works better.