Have A Look At The Wiper Blades Before You Buy

This may sound absolutely raving nad, but when you’re choosing which new or used car to buy next; you’d do very well to have a look at the Wiper blades. They can make a serious difference to your non-fuel running expenditure.

Lots of the new cars that have been introduced in Europe during the last few years are coming equipped with the new type of Flat Wiper Blades. These look great, and enjoy inherently much better wiping performance than traditional Wiper blades.

Flat Wiper Blades are also said to be far more aerodynamically efficient than normal Wiper blades, and this gives 2 benefits.

Firstly, Flat Wiper Blades have much better contact with the windscreen , especially at elevated speeds.

Secondly, Flat Wiper Blades have a considerably reduced coefficient of drag when compared with normal Wiper blades. However, when you think about what a tiny part of the overall drag of the car the Wiper blades account for; you’ll see that even cutting wiper blade drag by 80% won’t make any real difference to your car’s economy.

Conversely, if you’re not wary, you could wind up spending up to a hundred and sixty pounds a year just on replacement Wiper blades!

This annoying situation has happened because the car manufacturers and the manufacturers of the Original Fit Wiper blades have managed to use their introduction as a means of locking the unsuspecting driver into a very limited number of suppliers for the replacements; namely the franchised dealer and the wiper blade manufacturer’s own local distributors.

This shortage of competition has led to some extreme prices being demanded for Flat Wiper Blades.

A friend of mine is fortunate enough to own a very costly Supercar. Nevertheless even he was amazed to be quoted £80 for A wiper blade when his car was just over 6 months old. He looked around for a different source, but after the car main dealer, he could only find the wiper blade manufacturer’s local distributor, and guess what? The prices were within a few pence of each other.

He was particularly outraged by this, because previously, he’s always fitted Silicone wiper blades to his cars as soon as the original rubber ones wore out. Despite keeping all his cars for at least three years; he’s never had to replace any of his Silicone Windscreen Wiper Blades.

What further outraged my friend was the salt that the rubber wiper blade manufacturers rubbed into his wounds. On the packet of the £80 wiper blade was a warning that he should look forward to replace these Wiper blades within 6 to 12 months.

Regrettably, manufacturers of Silicone Windscreen Wiper Blades have not yet found ways to overcome the patents on the connection systems for these original equipment Flat Wiper Blades, but you can find Silicone Retrofit Flat Wiper Blades, which combine the looks & aerodynamic efficiency of Flat Wiper Blades with the performance, life and guarantee of Silicone Windscreen Wiper Blades.

Therefore, when you’re shopping for your next car, take a look at the wiper blade arms. If they have the well known hook type fittings, you can fit either traditional or Flat Silicone Windscreen Wiper Blades to fit. If they’ve got the fancy new patented connections, remember you could need to change them twice a year, and check out the cost. It may be as much as you spend on servicing!