If your C4 was the same as my C5 then the auto wipers worked the opposite way round to the Civic.
If you had the auto wipers set to 'auto' they worked, until you turned off the ignition, then they were completly cancelled, and did not activate the next time, even though the switch was still set to auto.
The Civic has the advantage of remembering the setting so you can leave it set to auto and the slightest bit of drizzle fires them off. On the C5 you needed to turn them off and back on again.
Clever little Civic
