Lately, as buckets and front-loaders complete of snow had been dumped onto the greater Detroit region, our long-term Volkswagen Golf test car wouldn’t allow one editor to lift its windshield wipers up after parking it outdoors. To Californians and hermits unfamiliar with the notion of “weather,” we typically lift wipers on vehicles parked outside to avoid them from gathering ice or sticking to the windshield for the duration of snowstorms. Except that when you try to move the VW’s wipers into the “up” position, they’re stopped partway by the trailing edge of the hood.
This is not an uncommon thing—especially among luxury automobiles of the German persuasion—as it makes it possible for the wipers to nest under the edge of the hood and lessen wind noise. (Of course, the VW Golf isn’t a luxury auto, but it does do a convincing impression of one.)
To lift the wipers on the Golf, you must first park the vehicle, kill the ignition, then hold the wiper stalk on the steering column down for a few moments. This moves the wipers into “service position”—essentially to the prime of their stroke against the windshield—at which point you can then hinge them away from the glass. Easy, particularly if you note that there are directions in the owner’s manual. Our extended-term BMW 328d wagon has equivalent functionality, as did an Audi A5 test automobile we had on hand this past week. The far more you—and one of our younger editors—know, right?
The Windshield-Wiper “Service Position” Explained
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