Recondition wiper blades

[adsm08]

This I have heard of before...but once you see nicks of unusual wear it is time to scrap them. Some people tell me they just wash the blades when they was their cars and wipe off the blades with a lint free towel and that should keep them new...but I do this and I still get streaks. I even use Rainx in my windsheild water bottle and I clean the windows with rainx.

Yeah, but don't you live in Florida? Lots of sun and heat will mess up the rubber and make them suck. Even humid heat. Basically the cooler it stays and the more it rains the better your blades will stay. I've had blades last me for years and years too. My current ones are only about 9 months old and starting to streak, but we had a hot dry summer.

 

[barrys]

> An alcohol wipe will get you pretty much the same results as this procedure.
I would have had to use about 20 of them. A paper towel and bottle of alchohol worked well for me and the scotchbrite on the first pass I think helped although I'll never know for sure. Also not sure if the silicon spray in the middle is neccessary since I could have washed it off with the last alcohol wipe.

All I know is it all worked really well. Went from a streaky mess to 1 year old $40.00 wipers working good as new. There's no way I'm ever spending that much on wipers again.