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Windshield Smear’ers

Zimm

Zimm

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Yea, this morning at 5am was my first foray in the dark with freezing road spray. The wiper blades were definitely low bid.
 
Here what I replaced them with, OEM blades are not always the great on any car I owned for winter.

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I agree, they aren’t the best. Skip like mad in light rain.

I tried a nice (expensive) set from the local parts store and they were marginally better. Tried the set of Michelin from Costco and they were much better. Now I have 3 sets of front wipers, lol. Living in western Washington I need good wipers though. It rains like 200 days a year.
 
MurphyMurph said:
I agree, they aren’t the best. Skip like mad in light rain.

I tried a nice (expensive) set from the local parts store and they were marginally better. Tried the set of Michelin from Costco and they were much better. Now I have 3 sets of front wipers, lol. Living in western Washington I need good wipers though. It rains like 200 days a year.
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The Michelin Hybrid are very good. I’ve tried them. But the best is Denso Hybrid which looks marginally better.
 
MurphyMurph said:
I agree, they aren’t the best. Skip like mad in light rain.

I tried a nice (expensive) set from the local parts store and they were marginally better. Tried the set of Michelin from Costco and they were much better. Now I have 3 sets of front wipers, lol. Living in western Washington I need good wipers though. It rains like 200 days a year.
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I mentioned this in another thread, but will post here again in case it helps you or anyone else. Summary is that after trying rain-x, bosch and stock blades - dense were the only ones that have not skipped a single time for me. Less skipping = less ice build up in heavy storms.

Windscreen wipers effectiveness

Does anyone know how to take the wipers off? The manual mentions a retaining clip, but I can't figure out where it is. Just flip the plastic cover off and at the end of the u bend, use your thumb to pry open the clip whilst pulling the wipers off at the same time.
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I didn’t have any skipping, it just seems like weak pressure on the windscreen that shows as a lack of squeegee effect. Maybe that’s the same cause as the skipping.
 
Zimm said:
I didn’t have any skipping, it just seems like weak pressure on the windscreen that shows as a lack of squeegee effect. Maybe that’s the same cause as the skipping.
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Basically the old school wipers have a metal blade ensuring even pressure along the whole blade on curved windscreen and also they are slightly taller to allow a good contact angle. Hybrids are basically old school blades wrapped up in an aerodynamic shell to make it look modern.
 
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