If you live in a region of the earth where winter occurs you have surely seen by now that wiper blades performance can reduce drastically during the frigid winter months and show a marked about turn in amenable weather. The reason for this is easy, the rubber on the wiper blades has a desire to freeze in cold temperatures and become very tough and rigid, without the natural flex of the rubber the wiper blades cannot conform itself to the contours of the wind screen and the result is severely reduced performance. They usually just end up wiping relatively small patches of the wind screen which the driver then has to peer through as they drive alarmingly along the road toward their inevitable doom. So what? You may be thinking but this is very irresponsible what happens if you run over a tiny child or even worse an animal, like a cute little squirrel with huge cartoon eyes and a bushy tail. You’ve all seen the Disney channel where the adventurous mongoose and his band of stereotyped characters step out on to the high way in order to find a new home or some such nonsense. Well without wiper blades just fantasize how that movie would end? The poor little guys would be mercilessly culled in an act of hideous depravity, blood and goo every where, oh the horror. Sometimes there are other stuff out there related to commencing your car on cold winter mornings, sometimes the wiper blades can become frozen fixed to the wind screen and when turned on they are ripped off from the arms.
Even worse than breaking your wiper blade you can badly injure the internal mechanism of the wiper blade arm and you will discover yourself being charged a huge bill by some insipid mechanic who habitually over charges people like you, how else would this guy put his kids through college and you don’t want that, you don’t want to be subsidising the accomplishments of his offspring, not on my watch chief. Other less sensational consequences of using different wiper blade in the winter is that you will no doubt be coerced to use an anti freeze in your washer fluid.
The problem with this solution is the chemicals in the anti freeze will both give you cancer and make your replacement wiper blades rot quite quickly. So what is a guy to do? Another aspect of the dreaded big freeze is that the winter will cause the joints in the motor arm to contract and seize up, when summer comes around these joints will then expand in the summer sun and the mechanical arm will no longer work properly. It will be forever out of accommodation and you will never have the humble joy of clean wind screens ever again, not in your life time anyway. Another consequence of all this replacement wiper blades bending is that the replacement wiper blades will tend to make a lot of babble and jiggle about when in use. This is probably the most annoying manifestation of windscreen wipers rot and needs to be avoided at all costs.
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