Nominations for the most irritating Gen 4 switchgear go to:......

CC Baxter wrote: I think the reasoning for wipers on the outside is that vision takes priority over signalling. You can signal early or late but you need to see now.
Chris

I do believe that Europe has the wipers on the right, and they drive on the wrong side of the road so that rather shoots that theory down

I think the speedo should be on the left, and the indicators on the right, like in the old one tbh, but I think Suzuki went all Euro when they bought in the VVT and swapped everything over then.

You might ask why I bought a Gen4 if there is so much to criticise- well really I wanted to get the last of the Gen 3 at a knockdown price, but the prices shot up not down. Keeping the old one wasn't really worth it as it won't last another 20 years, and I wanted an auto.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start loo

They changed the gen3 at the stormtrooper facelift, the 05 to13 cars are the sensible way round.

Dorsetdumpling wrote: A): The rear wash wipe knob which has a ‘wash but no wipe’ setting which sends a stream of water straight down the rear window. By the time you click the knob to the ‘wipe’ setting, past the ‘off’ setting, the water has all run off.

There are two wash positions. As you say turn know down for wash only, turn back up past Off and onto wipe, then turn up again and hold to wash and wipe. This top position is a self return.

Interestingly, and quite happily for me, the indicator stalk is on the right side, and we also drive on the correct side of the road.

The rear washer switch is daft. A very useless wash only and no intermittent.

The other useless thing is the ESP off button. It turns back on at 30kph, which is a waste of time. The ESP doesn't do much below 30kph anyway.

I saw somewhere that the reason we and every country that we influenced drive on the correct side, whilst everyone else drives on the right, is purely because the French invented driving on the right, for some totally practical and sensible reason that I forget now, and Britain would rather die screaming than do what the French said, no matter how impractical doing the opposite was. :laugh:

(No doubt the USA drive on the wrong side for a similar reason to to with the burning the Whitehouse and the Soaking of the Tea incident)

I keep catching the steering wheel mounted Bluetooth set up switch with my gangly legs