[hgarcia]

I believe car wash mode is needed when you are going to exit the vehicle and don’t want it to shift to park when opening the door. I haven’t went in a car wash with my Passport yet but do know whenever you open the drivers door and the car isn’t moving it shifts to park.

 

[hgarcia]

I did some testing today as I was worried about sending our new Passport into a car wash with no one in it and found out the following.

* If you press nuteral once and open the drivers door without the drivers seatbelt fastened it will go into park

* if you press nuteral followed by pressing and holding for 2 seconds or till you hear a beep with message you can open the drivers door without the seatbelt fastened and it does not go into park

So you have to options for auto car wash that sends the vehical unattended. Either press nuteral followed by another press and hold or fasten the drivers seatbelt behind you and exit without removing it after one press of the nuteral button.

Hope this helps even after figuring this out it still worries me someone will screw this up.