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Strangways wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:55 am
HouseSpider wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:59 am
hsdejong wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:34 pm

From the CX-3 Owners manual :
If the headlight switch and the windshield wiper switch are in AUTO, and the wipers are operated at low or high speed by the auto wiper control for several seconds, bad weather conditions are determined and the headlights may be turned on.

I can confirm the above function from my own experience.
Which section of the manual is this in?
Page 4-52 of the PDF Manual that I have downloaded.

Which manual did you download?
I've just downloaded the UK manual and the Danish manual (latest version from 2018) for the CX-3 and I can't find that paragraph anywhere.
Page 4-52 is dealing with the automatic transmission.
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santa wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:09 am
Strangways wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:55 am
HouseSpider wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:59 am

Which section of the manual is this in?
Page 4-52 of the PDF Manual that I have downloaded.

Which manual did you download?
I've just downloaded the UK manual and the Danish manual (latest version from 2018) for the CX-3 and I can't find that paragraph anywhere.
Page 4-52 is dealing with the automatic transmission.
You can download it from my Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwc7w3dp728zl ... 5.pdf?dl=0
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Strangways wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:55 am
HouseSpider wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:59 am Which section of the manual is this in?
Page 4-52 of the PDF Manual that I have downloaded.
I found it in the section "When Driving - Switches and Controls - Auto-wiper control" on page 4-49 of the downloaded June 2017 (Print1) CX-3 Owners Manual (in PDF format).
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hsdejong wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 12:38 pm
Strangways wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:55 am
HouseSpider wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:59 am Which section of the manual is this in?
Page 4-52 of the PDF Manual that I have downloaded.
I found it in the section "When Driving - Switches and Controls - Auto-wiper control" on page 4-49 of the downloaded June 2017 (Print1) CX-3 Owners Manual (in PDF format).
It's rather strange. In the UK Owners Manuals for April 2015 and July 2018 the equivalent sections are 4-71 and 4-72 and neither have a mention of the paragraph from the June 2017 manual referred to above, namely :-

"If the headlight and the windshield switch are in the AUTO, and the wipers are operated at low or high speed by the auto wiper control for several seconds, bad weather conditions are determined and the headlights may be turned on"

I wonder as that refers to windshield rather than the normal UK wording of windscreen, the June 2017 Owners Manual referred to by hsdejong might be a USA version and thus this feature is specific to the USA versions of the CX-3?

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Greenman wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:28 am post amended as I had my lefts and rights mixed up...

General query to all:

- You are waiting at a T-junction to join the road.
- A car is approaching from the right
- The left indicator on the approaching car starts to flash

What do you do?
Wait until you're sure as to their intended actions & direction, I.e. Wait until they turn (or go straight on).
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I used the physical manual which came with the car - it should be the correct one.
However it only goes up to 4-50 & the last 6 pages relate to parking sensors. I can't seem to find the quoted paragraph.
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I have PDF's of Apr 2015 (Print1), Dec 2016 (Print2), July 2018 (Print3) and the word windshield does not appear in any of them.

I pretty much always have my lights and wipers set to Auto, and the wipers have never caused the lights to come on. Clearly it depends on a combination of model, year and country. If either the lights or wipers have not triggered automatically, and I decide the weather dictates otherwise, I just move the control to the manual position.
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I have no idea where I have downloaded this owners manual from.
On the bottom of the pages you can read "CX-3_8GA5-EA-17F_Edition1"
I have saved the first pages and the section about the wipers in a new PDF, because the whole manual is too big to upload to this forum.

My own experience: I had lights and wipers on auto. In a thunderstorm with heavy rain I was surprised that the lights went on automatically while it was not dark enough in my opinion.
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I found the section in my pdf manual from 2015 and the paragraph describing the function:
"• If the headlight switch and the
windshield wiper switch are in ,
and the wipers are operated at low or
high speed by the auto wiper control for
several seconds, bad weather conditions
are determined and the headlights may
be turned on"
is missing from the manual (both danish and english versions).
So I don't think my 2015 model has that function (and I've never experienced it either).
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And I've just downloaded the US manual from 2017 and it has that paragraph, so it must a regional thing.
The US has it, we don't (or at least some don't and some do ;) ).
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