As an experienced driver on the open Autobahn I’m sure by now you will have seen adverse circumstances at some time with your present rubber wiper blade. These issues are compounded even more in the winter when the temperature dips and ice and sleet prevail. You see the normal rubber wiper blade is not reasonable for winter driving conditions, the rubber in the insert swiftly becomes hard and unyielding on contact to snow and ice resulting in a massively impaired results and just at the time you need it most. When you get up in the morning to a bright pure white blanket of snow the last thing in the world you need to be worrying about is the ableness of your wiper blade. During sub zero temperatures the rubber wiper blade top can crack and fissure, if water gets in there and then re-freezes the wiper blades will be split open just like you see in rock formations and analogously called frost heave.

This is the super power of nature, if water and low temperatures can injured solid granite edifices it takes Lilliputian in the way of imagination to see how nasty the effects will be on something as soft and yielding as natural rubber windscreen wipers. Another result of the cold protracted winter months is ice and lots of it, during these times more so in the morning the windscreen wipers can sometimes become frozen solid to the wind screen, then when the ignition is turned on the windscreen wipers come to life and the motion of the sweeping arm actually can cause big damage to the fragile internal device of the windscreen wipers system, the electric motors will be forced to rev, this is bad and can cause bad damage. Another pontential result is that the sweeping arm itself can be wrenched badly resulting in a wonky angle and requiring urgent replacement with a whole new wipers assembly.

One possible answer to this annoying conundrum is to use something called anti freeze in your washer fluid or get some which sprays directly onto the wind screen. The major draw back of this method is that the anti freeze will actually degrade the rubber replacement wiper blades quite severely due to its potent brew of alcohol and corrosive chemicals which in many ways kind of defeats the point. Another achievable result of cold weather spells is that the components in the replacement wiper blades sweeping arm mechanism will soon seize up and become to rigid to work anymore, the abounding hinges become to stiff to move and whole replacement wiper blades mechanism can begin to vibrate quite severely. The when summer comes around and the temperatures starts to climb these parts will defrost and expand and quickly become loose and shit as they get more and more worn down as a result of this process. The answer to all of these things is already available and is embodied in a thing called silicone, this material has all the properties you would want from a great replacement wiper blades, it resists problems in temperature and doesn’t degrade when contacted to water, ozone and ice and snow.

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