your take on winter wiper blades
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December 02, 2001 07:52 am UTC
December 02, 2001 07:52 am UTC
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Jimmy Lee
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whats your take on them.. i know there cheap. and seeing as how most of us get snow tires.. why not snow wipers?
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Re: your take on winter wiper blades
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December 02, 2001 10:06 am UTC
December 02, 2001 10:06 am UTC
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These things for the most part suck ass. They float badly at highway speeds. The rubber cover acts like an airplane wing. They may be ok in the city but I will never put them on my car. (They're butt ugly to boot)
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Re: your take on winter wiper blades
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December 02, 2001 01:25 pm UTC
December 02, 2001 01:25 pm UTC
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Ghislain Goudreau
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I second Darren of the Highway speed. I personally use a Good Metal Base Wiperblade. The trick is to use your defrost "All the Time" when you are driving in bad conditions. It keeps the Wiper Area of the Lower Windsheild defrosted (Indide) and de-iced (Outside) preventing the Wiper fron becoming a Block of Ice. Works for me anyway. Ghislain.
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Re: your take on winter wiper blades
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December 07, 2001 10:42 pm UTC
December 07, 2001 10:42 pm UTC
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Anonymous
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Best thing since sliced bread. Never freeze up in snow storms where standard blades are toast. They float a bit above 100k but still clean enough of the windshield to manage during the rare times you can get over 100 in sloppy conditions.
There ugly but I only badly need them for 2 months of the year.
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Re: your take on winter wiper blades
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December 07, 2001 11:35 pm UTC
December 07, 2001 11:35 pm UTC
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Ryan Hutchins
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The winter ones just look ugly and I've never really had any big problems with the metal ones, so what if you have to hit them a couple times to clean them up. Also if you ever have problems with the wipers lifting at highway speeds, just go to CT and get those things, what ever you call them, they clip onto the wiper arms and give the wiper some downforce so they stick to the windshield. Come to think of it, I should pick some up some time soon, my blades jsut float above 120.
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Re: your take on winter wiper blades
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December 08, 2001 05:40 am UTC
December 08, 2001 05:40 am UTC
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Steve Leigh
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I just used smaller dual blade steel wipers,from Walmart, no problem with them lifting at speeds. They work great and look cool too.
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