Rear wiper function, is this normal?

[Yaris Dick]

Just getting around to asking this even though I've had the car several months now.

When I twist the rear wiper control up (CW viewed from stalk) it turns the wiper on and I can twist further to get fluid.

When I twist down (CCW) I only get fluid, wiper does nothing.

Is this normal?

[07WYarisRS]

yep
kinda weird eh!

My laser was the same way, unless I turned the wiper on, just pushing the button would squirt fluid while the wiper dod nothing

[Katana]

Yeah it's weird and normal!

[hasher22]

Ya, pretty cool function i recon....

[argylesocks]

Ya, pretty cool function i recon....

how so?

haha... when would i EVER want to squirt washer fluid on my rear window without having the wiper clean it up afterwards?

i think its a pretty weird function..

[TC-LIFTBACK]

Toyota engineers screwed up sourcing out the control stalk for the rear wiper. Simple as that.

[riceboy]

I find that the delivery system isn't too effective... whenever I want to clear up the rear glass I find that the wiper tends to wipe away all the washer fluid so that only part of the glass gets cleaned....

[07WYarisRS]

The squirt only function works great in the winter when the rear windows are covered with heavy snow and ice. Give it a good blast for a couple seconds and let it sit for a minute then wipe the window. It melts the snow and ice right off.