If you live in a part of the world where winter happens you have surely noted by now that wiper blades efficiency can reduce drastically during the cold 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 inclination to freeze in cold temperatures and become very fixed and rigid, without the natural flex of the rubber the wiper blades cannot abut itself to the contours of the wind screen and the consequence is severely distorted performance. They usually just end up clearing relatively small patches of the wind screen which the driver then has to see through as they drive alarmingly along the road toward their inevitable doom. So what? You may be thinking but this is quite irresponsible what happens if you run over a small child or even worse an animal, like a cute little squirrel with big cartoon eyes and a bushy tail. You’ve all observed the Disney channel where the intrepid mongoose and his band of stereotyped personalities step out on to the high way in order to discover a new home or some such nonsense. Well without wiper blades just imagine how that movie would end? The cute little guys would be mercilessly culled in an act of hideous depravity, blood and entrails every where, oh the horror. Sometimes there are other hazards out there related to commencing your car on cold winter mornings, often the wiper blades can become frozen fixed to the wind screen and when turned on they are ripped absconded from the arms.

Even worse than losing your wiper blade you can badly injure the internal mechanism of the wiper blade arm and you will find yourself being charged a huge bill by some lunatic mechanic who normally 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 education of his offspring, not on my watch chief. Other less interesting consequences of using different wiper blade in the low temp 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 provide you cancer and make your replacement wiper blades rot quite soon. So what is a guy to do? Another issue of the dreaded big freeze is that the low temp will cause the joints in the appliance arm to contract and seize up, when summer comes a calling these joints will then expand in the summer sun and the mechanical arm will no longer work properly. It will be forever out of alignment and you will never have the humble joy of clean wind screens ever again, not in your life time anyway. Another aftermath of all this replacement wiper blades bending is that the replacement wiper blades will tend to make a lot of sound and jiggle about when in use. This is probably the most annoying manifestation of replacement wiper blades rot and needs to be avoided at all costs.

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