For the first time yesterday I realized when I had the wipers on, if I put the car in reverse, the rear wipers would activate for a couple cycles. Nice Honda.

Are there are other little tricks with the Fit that I may possibly not know about ?

 

Honda Fit Easter Eggs?

 

honda pulled a vanishing trick ... ur 2nd glove compartment box and magic seat compartment is gone!

 

Nice they added it to the Fit. My wife noticed it on our 2010 CRV. Great feature!

 

Does the 2nd gen do this

 

If you have your headlights on Auto and you turn your wipers on for more than a few seconds, your headlights will turn on.

 

The GEs do (at least the 2012 and 2013 do). The GDs do not.

 

My '09 GE Sport did this too.


Another thing is if you start the car with the handbrake on, the daytime running lights won't come on until the handbrake is released. I call this the "drive-in movie mode"-it allows you to start the car to run the heat or A/C without disturbing other patrons with your running lights.

 

I was just going to post on this - I've noticed on occasion that the rear wipers go on when the front ones are running and in Reverse gear. I didn't notice this until just after my fuel pump recall was done when the fine folks at B*ernard! Honda forgot to put the rear brake light wiring back together (oops). Had to return to have that fixed for free - no reimbursement or free oil change even though they #$%#$% it up.

 

I had this feature on a prior car but it was scary the first time I backed up in the rain with a bike rack attached to the hatch.

 

Which Fit doesn't have magic rear seats? My GK5 does have it.

 

Does this apply to manual GK5's as well?
I don't recall seeing this happen on my Fit.

 

Yes it does. At least my European spec GK5 has the feature.

And it annoys me, when I don't want to scratch the rear window after driving on muddy roads. I try to remember switch off the wipers before reversing, but time to time forget it.