[cab02149]

Car Wash & Eyesite

Never gave it a thought and never a problem. (It would have been in the manual I think, if it was something special.)

Once, pulling in towards a 6' high stone wall to park, eyesight kicked in and the brakes went "Bang", and stopped the car's forward motion extremely quickly and forcefully, I thought my teeth would fall out ! I drive much, much slower into those parking spaces. It has not repeated. I don't want it to repeat.

I got worried about a steering problem, on the highway. Turned out that I unconsciously initialized lane control. Of course it ended when I saw the switch on the steering wheel. It frightened me for a while.

The car is fine, I had to learn to leave it alone and just drive it. I do like the rear radar, seems to notice pedestrians, and cars when they are 50 feet away and give out a signal.

I likely will have the dealer install an automatic center rear mirror, night driving is more annoying than ever and ˆ want to pay attention to the road ahead.

 

[Kalukis]

I always turn the automatic braking off. It's recommended in the manual, it takes two seconds to activate/deactivate. At least one poster mentioned that the system activated on him in the car wash. Why risk it?

 

[Woozer]

Concierge dude at the dealer made a super big point to warn me about this. In the brushless ones where the car just sits and the sprinkle thingy moves around it, there is obviously no problem. But in a moving system where the car goes through, if Eyesight thinks an approaching brush (or even a dude with a wand) is a hazard, it'll slam on the brakes. If you're in the car, you can just switch it off and continue, but if the car is unoccupied and it does this in the middle of a wash line on a busy day, you could have problems. Just turn it off.

 

[JumpingJackFlash]

It can trigger in a car wash. Been there, done that. I now disable it.

 

[JohnShaver]

It can trigger in a car wash. Been there, done that. I now disable it.

Just to add to the debate, I'll just reference the thing (a link to a post from another older thread) that caused me to decide that I wanted to find out where the PreCollision OFF switch was, before I took my new 2017 to my local automatic car wash for the very first time. My local automatic car wash = drive onto chain, stay in car, leave car running but put car in neutral and then get pulled through tunnel into rotating brushes).

https://www.subaruforester.org/vbulletin/f281/forester-w-eyesight-through-automatic-car-wash-772553/#post7360026

Your mileage may vary, but the odd time I take mine for an automatic wash, I plan to keep turning it OFF.

PS: By the way JumpingJackFlash was the person that posted the thread I referenced above from an older forum post.:laugh::laugh:

 

[Drew1964]

Both the dealer and manual say turn controls off. Not something I want to test. Gotta love technology

 

[jfm]

You also may want to cover the eyesight camera housings with a bit of tape (the blue painter tape works well and comes right off). That way, if the car wash attendant sprays the inside of the windshield when cleaning the interior, the cameras don't get sprayed.

I've done this a few times and it works well.

 

[dmarcus48]

Good question though!

I'm waiting for my Forester to come in, but I had wondered the same thing.

 

[titleman]

Why would eyesight engage if your car is in netural? This makes no sense.

 

[Rocket J Squirrel]

Back in the days when I drove a 1987 Nissan 300ZX Turbo, and later when I drove a 2000 BMW 528i, I hand washed and waxed all the time. Those cars were things of beauty.

With a Subaru, I don't care. Car wash, fine. Leave it out in the rain to get clean, fine. It's a Subaru, not a Lamborghini.

 

[ronurb3]

Car washes and Pre-Collision Braking System

2019 Forester Limited
At my Encore delivery session, I was told to turn off the Pre-Collision Braking System when going through a car wash.
This is the button to the right of the sunroof switch.
He said that when it sees the brushes ahead, it will jam on the brakes and you will get rear-ended.
Has anybody had any problem while going through a car wash?

 

[2.5x_sleeper]

@ronurb3 your thread has been merged with this existing thread on the same subject. :wink:

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[forestertouring19]

Painter's tape over cameras worked fine

You also may want to cover the eyesight camera housings with a bit of tape (the blue painter tape works well and comes right off). That way, if the car wash attendant sprays the inside of the windshield when cleaning the interior, the cameras don't get sprayed.

I've done this a few times and it works well.

I've had my 2019 Touring model for almost nine months without a wash so I read everything on this forum about car washes and Eyesight and had it washed today with no problem ... but first I used painter's tape to tape over the Eyesight cameras (thanks for that suggestion, jfm) and then shut off Eyesight. No problems. I do hand wash my Corvette Stingray but, as someone said, the Forester is a Subaru so I'm happy to take advantage of the convenience of a car wash.