Rujee

I live here in Oregon and we see rain about 75% out of a year (well.. maybe not this year!). My question to you guys is: what would be the best wiper blades do you ever use? I bought Bosch Edge Excel before and didn't have a good experience with it. All comments are welcome!

thephantom

Anything but the OEM blades.

bioyuki

Hasn't rained in the 6 months I've had my car so I wouldn't know

jimster716

PIAA has introduced a line of super silicon wiper blades. They come in either carbon fiber finish or black. supposedly the wiper action leaves a silicon coat which makes the water bead up and water repellant.

i'm thinking about trying them in sunny california just because anytime i use the wipers with the washer fluid everything smears heinously.

i have to find out about an application for our car (length) and if i do get them i'll let you know how they are.

besides i love carbon fiber

AKRY

How about buy a set of decent blade(e.g. Borsch), and a bottle of X-Rain...

Andy Kuo

SimTypeS

I'm not far from you, Rujee, up in Vancouver, WA. At first, my blades skipped and sucked like everyone else on here complained about. I have put a few coats of Rain-X on her, though, and I don't need to use my wipers much at all. Once i hit 35mph or so, the water just beads up and off the windshield. The other day I did need to use them, though, and they didn't skip at all. I used them all day (remember Friday?), and no problems. Later that night I drove around without the wipers on because the Rain-X was still working. The stuff really works. I haven't tried that new one-minute Castrol stuff, yet. Anyway, this is a little off your subject. I was looking to buy new blades, too, but I'm not sure if I need to, now.

mikeinnj

The best I've ever used are Silblades... Silicone like the piaa ones that jimster mentioned.

I love them, they do leave a silicone coat on the windshiels like rainx.

Ther are about $13 a piece and worth every penny,

http://www.sspinc.com/wipers.cfm

They last pretty much forever, I had a set on my truck for three years and not a streak, and thats through rain and snow.

yahtzee

My silblades will be here tomorrow. i will let you know... I also just finished using Zaino Z2 on the inside and outside of all of my windows and man what a difference...Beautiful job....

thephantom

Hmmm... maybe Tim can stock some of these blades and sell them through autocarparts.com. Tim??

Beiruty

Stay away from those Teflon coated ones( not sure the bramd). I have a set, I apid $25 and they are worthless.....

astro

I ordered some siliblades also...we shall see how good they are...
we should all write up a little review, and then TIm can decide if he wants to pursue then for a distribution deal

FTM-1

Get original factory OEM blades & have your front windshield treated with Aquapel Glass treatment. This treatment unlike
Rain-X will last over a year. It is made by PPG Industries that supply Auto & Truck Glass. The treatment should cost $14 -$20 & will help any blades.

VTEC Animal

Rain-X works pretty good, but before I put any on for the winter (it gets so hot here that what I put on in the spring has surely BURNED off) I'm gonna see how you guys like those Sillblades.

jbrown

The Bosch blades kick @ss, I've had them on every car so far, and in Florida it rains almost every day in the summer time. Only $7-9 each and they last about 6 months in the wicked FL sun, probably more if you aren't as anal as I am about wiper blades.

Austin519

Just a note about Rain-X. Maybe I'm the only one to have this happen...but it's happened on 4 cars to date...

When you put Rain-X on the car...it's great...and it works wonders...but over time you have to apply it more and more often, and if you don't the water will have a smearing effect 100x worse than before you put the Rain-X on...we're talking AWFUL you-can't-see-at-all smearing, and the worst part...the water seems to stick to the windshield even at high speeds. I talked to Rain-X about this...and they said "yeah it's an irreversible process...just reapply our product". What a way to market it eh? Like marketing crack cocaine...take it once, and you have to keep doing it forever. I heard that the new spray stuff they're coming out with that you don't even have to wipe off is a lot less evil over time...you guys experienced this?

Austin519

Fiddler

I have Bosch excel or whatever they call them and they've lasted close to 9 months already ... these are NOT refills .. these are the $12 ones that come w/ the metal holder thingy.. the whole assembly you know. I remember reading something on consumer reports saying that the refills from the same manufacturer are often worse than the whole assembly they sell and I can back it up. I had refills from bosch before and they only lasted about 2 - 3 months.

mikeinnj

Windex seems to take Rain-X right off (with a few coats).

I may try Zaino, but with my Silblades, I apply rain-x once or twice and almost never again. The water doesn't fly off the windshield as fast, but it does fly off. It takes a few months of rain for the silblades to coat the windshield, it certainly isn't instant, but you will notict it one day and be like "wow" it really works.

Beiruty

yes I did have the same sad experience and because of that I stopped using the Rain-X. You love it the first day and hate it a week later.

daverman

What are the lengths of the TL-S wiper blades?

Shoofin

I'm still trying to figure out what to do... I went through 3 sets of wipers, and still they chatter like a Fvck... I put rain x, didn't help..I put 303 wiper treatment, it helped the first time I put it on, then two more times after it didn't help.... I hate this!
Ed

Mr Hyde

Same thing used to happen to my Accord every now and then. Happened once on my TL-S so far. What I do is when I get chatter, I completely clean the windshield using dishwashing liquid and a green scotch brite pad. Hose it off, dry and reapply Rain-X.

The way I apply RainX is by cleaning and drying the windshield, I then put on the RainX and then instead of buffing it off, I just hose off the windshield again. It takes the excess right off with absolutely ZERO buffing, huffing or puffing. Plus I think it leaves more product on the windshield and leaves ZERO streaking.

ssainani

I actually use the rain x brand of windshield washer fluid.

It cost 3 dollars a bottle CND.....so i always seem to have a good coat of rain x on.

it works great.

sanjay

Xtrema

These Rain-X or other windshield treatment products, do they leave a film that's hard to see at night?

I used something similar a while back and the film just lights up under street lights and I can't see a thing. And it's annoying.