Is the intermittent wiper timing adjustment right?

[UndergroundTaco]

So given it’s been dry where I live and now we are getting a lot of rain I notice what I believe to be an issues with the adjustment of the intermittent wiper. Given the current setting in the attached picture would this be the shortest gap or longest gap between wiper passes? Its current the longest gap.

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[wutheck]

Yes mine is backwards too. Well, backwards to every other vehicle I have driven.

 

[Sagebrush]

Taco wipers have been that way for generations.

 

[HoptownBob]

Guess we have to look at it as an indicator of how often the wipers wipe. In that position they wipe the least amount.

 

[bitflogger]

Same as our Sienna but opposite our other Japanese brand and German car.

 

[UndergroundTaco]

Honestly I must have never paid attention. It’s not my first taco but it’s been a few years.

 

[Goriders]

Guess it’s how you want to look at it. I would think the long bar would be the longest duration between strokes. But it could be interperated as most wiper input (shortest pause).

I never really looked that close because the steering wheel was in the way.

 

[Baltimore]

Toyota has always been the longer the bar the longer the pause between wipes. Think of it as a gap or delay marker, not a movement frequency. Upward/larger bar is the slowest (longest pause) and downward/small bar is quickest (barely pauses). Same as on my 20yr old Toyota SUV.

 

[cg49me]

I came from Ford land, where the orientation is the same.

 

[TacoFreak]

Yeah - this normal for Toyota so I never thought about it. That would mess me up when driving my wife's Infiniti though.

I remember it as turning it toward me makes it wipe more often and toward the windshield it wipes less often. The bars correspond to how long it is between wipes.

 

[AltarBoy]

I don’t even see it behind the steering wheel. I just turn the ring to the speed I need it wipe

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