Rear Window Status on Condition Check ~ 2025 Crosstrek Limited

[MrBlz]

See the image. This is using the app but if you use the website the status is the same. Is there anyone else with a 2025 Limited that can verify they get the same results. The dealer said that the rear windows do not have a sensor. How would it make any sense that when you go to check you status that you can see that doors are closed and locked, tailgate is closed and locked, hood is closed, moonroof is closed and the front windows are closed but nothing about the rear windows. Anyone have thoughts or experience? Thanks.

 

[Dick Foster]

Don't know why anyone would need sensors to tell them the windows are closed or open and I don't see the need to add that kind of expense to the car. Next thing ya know people will want the car to check their pulse rate and blood pressure too.

 

[bmart]

Old owner's manual used to tell the owner how to adjust the valves. Now they tell them not to drink coolant... These aren't equal people.

 

[MrBlz]

Don't know why anyone would need sensors to tell them the windows are closed or open and I don't see the need to add that kind of expense to the car. Next thing ya know people will want the car to check their pulse rate and blood pressure too.

Since it already has sensors for everything except the rear windows I thought it odd that they were not included. My basic question was do they have them in the rear and mine are just not working or is it by design. It's not like they are an option and if you use the app to occasionally monitor the vehicle it should be all or nothing.

 

[MrBlz]

Old owner's manual used to tell the owner how to adjust the valves. Now they tell them not to drink coolant... These aren't equal people.

I am an old guy and the days of changing points and plugs are saadly gone. So too are the days of having a manual transmission. Young kids today will never experience the joys of throwing their own.

 

[bmart]

True. I'm at four Subarus, all 5MT, and a flock of motorcycles, all MT. Never give up, never surrender!

You may like this: https://tmgps.org/

 

[Dick Foster]

Since it already has sensors for everything except the rear windows I thought it odd that they were not included. My basic question was do they have them in the rear and mine are just not working or is it by design. It's not like they are an option and if you use the app to occasionally monitor the vehicle it should be all or nothing.

Maybe you should just take the bus, stop worrying about it and leave the driving to someone else. Sensors and the systems they attach to cost real money and buy the time the buyer buys the car it's a whole lotta money and something else to break.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it without considering everything else it affects.

BTW I am firmly against so called driverless cars. And I'm the guy who had a lot to do with putting cameras in cars in the first place.

There simply is no such thing as idiot proof anything and people who try are all idiots.

 

[bmart]

Ha ha! I work in the improvement industry. One of our favorite quotes:

Anyone who thinks they can make anything fool proof has grossly underestimated the quality of fool available.

 

[MrBlz]

Thanks for the commentary. I was not looking for a lecture on the relative virtues of the various monitoring systems in newer cars. I've been driving for over 60 years, most of which were manuals. I am the last guy that thinks self driving cars are a good idea and I wish that manuals were still available as that's what young people need. For one it helps them focus on the job at hand. Technology is what it is both good and bad.