Keep Your Windscreen Wiper Blades Clean. They’ll Last Longer & Work Better
July 4th, 2008Car Wiper Blades are a critical safety item on your car. If you neglect them; it’ll cost you money. You’ll also make your life behind the wheel less comfortable, more exhausting and more risky.
When Car Wiper Blades are exhausted, they become noisy in operation. They also wipe erratically, leaving un-wiped areas and streaks all over the windscreen. The noise is very distracting, and in time it becomes very tiring, especially as the motorist starts to reduce his use of the wipers in order to reduce the annoyance of the noise. When he does that, the motorist leaves the windscreen to become really obscured before he finally puts the wipers on for a quick wipe. The hazards in this practice are obvious. In all conditions, on modern hectic roads, it’s completely essential to have perfect vision, and a calm fresh alert driver!
Neglecting your Car Wiper Blades will also cost you money, because they’ll wear out & finally die on you much quicker than a properly cared for pair of Car Wiper Blades.
Stiffening, Cracking & Degeneration of the rubber blade is the major cause of noisy and poorly performing Car Wiper Blades. Rubber is degraded by Ultra Violet Radiation, Ozone, Pollution and many solvents. All these things cause the above problems. The degeneration is quicker if the Car Wiper Blades are left dirty, because the dirt harbours road grease and other chemicals which attack the rubber. Grit particles also grind and cut into the working edge of the wiper blade, making the streaking much worse and opening up the blade to faster attack.
So, how can you take proper care of your Car Wiper Blades? Well, the good news is that it’s really very simple to keep your Car Wiper Blades in good condition, and in so doing markedly extend their working life, reduce distractions of noisy Car Wiper Blades, and ensure that you always see the road with perfect visibility through a clear clean windscreen.
To begin with, every time you wash your car, you must always lift the Car Wiper Blades and thoroughly wash and rinse the area under where the Car Wiper Blades park. This is totally important, because, especially when it rains, this dirt always finds its way onto the working edge of the wiper blade, so spoiling the smoothness of the wipe which in turn causes squeaks, streaks and juddering.
At the same time, whilst you have the Car Wiper Blades lifted off the screen, take a soft cloth or sponge, and wet it with some diluted car screen wash additive. Carefully wipe the edge and along the sides of the blade and afterwards wipe the frame, giving special attention to the joints on traditional Car Wiper Blades. If you’re fortunate enough to have Flat Wiper Blades, you don’t need to worry about joints, although you have a much bigger surface to clean.
If you have rubber Car Wiper Blades (instead of Silicone Wiper Blades ) you should always avoid parking in a way that leaves them baking in bright sunlight, because the Ultra Violet Radiation will be having a field day eating into your rubber Car Wiper Blades.
Finally, when you need to replace your Car Wiper Blades you should consider Silicone Windscreen Wiper Blades, because they resist attack by all the things which attack rubber. Additionally, they are much more wear resistant than rubber Car Wiper Blades, so they typically last three to five times longer.