The wife was returning from an overnight work trip in our new R/T today and decided to take it through the car wash. She paid the attendant and pulled forward as instructed to the point where the guy told her "Neutral...no brakes." She put it in neutral and waited for the metal tire roller to move the rig through the car wash. Nope! The rig wouldn't budge. :-? The guy asked her if she had it in neutral and the parking brake off to which she replied yes to both. Rig wouldn't budge. This is where the other folks in line became unhappy. They all (6 of them) had to back out to allow my wife to exit the car wash with her tail between her legs.
She came home and told me about it. Not happy. The only thing I could figure out was that maybe the active braking system must have determined the car wash apparatus was something to avoid and applied the brakes while in neutral. I couldn't believe that the active braking system would work in neutral but, evidently it does. We went together back to the car wash with the blue tape still on the rear wiper. That gave the new attendant pause until I explained the previous experience. I turned off the active braking system and went through the car wash without incident. With that the wife said with a smirk on her face "F-ing technology". I held laughter until we got home and she went in the house. All is well and our black beauty is clean and tucked away for the night. FYI...this is not in the owner's manual...at least I could not find it even using the PDF and searching electronically.
She came home and told me about it. Not happy. The only thing I could figure out was that maybe the active braking system must have determined the car wash apparatus was something to avoid and applied the brakes while in neutral. I couldn't believe that the active braking system would work in neutral but, evidently it does. We went together back to the car wash with the blue tape still on the rear wiper. That gave the new attendant pause until I explained the previous experience. I turned off the active braking system and went through the car wash without incident. With that the wife said with a smirk on her face "F-ing technology". I held laughter until we got home and she went in the house. All is well and our black beauty is clean and tucked away for the night. FYI...this is not in the owner's manual...at least I could not find it even using the PDF and searching electronically.
