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Originally Posted by bcredliner
Replace the blades every 2 months?
Does it rain steel wool in NJ?
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Aye... yeah 2 months before I start getting chatter. I normally wash the X every week, Saturday mornings before the sun gets high and then in the winter, it goes to the car wash. The blades get wiped down once a week with the Invisible glass and then after a month, I'll start to see the wipe is not perfect. It may skip a bit or a permanent line of water that the blade is missing. Then it just goes downhill from there. Finally I'll get a rain and I will have to hear the "Brrrriiipppp" or "Bababababababababababa" or "Screeeeecchhhhhh and then bababababababababa" And that just drives me nuts. I've tried everything under the sun to clean the blades, rubbing alcohol, vinegar, ammonia, hell I even tried Armor all... lol It was good for the first few wipes and then back to the annoying sound.
It was actually difficult to find inserts... I remember back in the day, retailers would have a section for the wipers and then a different section for the inserts. I guess as the flex types started coming in and also noticing people replace the blades more often than just refilling them, they just started to phase them out. I called the dealer for a hail mary to see if they had any inserts left and they didn't Pep boys didn't have any either. The selection at AAP was only those 3 and Napa didn't have the size for 24" So I say for $6, that's a pretty good deal.