Motorists Alarmed About Sneaky Avian Windscreen Wiper Attacks.

Drivers wipers are at heightened risk from aerial assault following a spate of daring avian batterings in broad daylight. It seems some types of bird have started to devour wipers in order to obtain the rare mineral diet which can be discovered in some assortments of rubber. One particular incident hit the head lines in the BBC when a mob of viscous starving avians at a park in ride found in York removed the cars of their lovely rubber wipers. Some of the owners stated to have lost as many as seven sets of replacement wiper blades over the period and were flabbergasted to discover the culprits were a flock of starving avians. According to some unnamed sources in the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds the birds are tempted to the wipers by the mineral parts, which can be acquired there by an enterprising young bird. In order to prevent this recent annoying trend motorists have been told to perform some common steps like coating their wiper blade in aluminium sulphate to discourage any would be vandals.

One individual was quoted as being shocked after revealing who the guilty party actually were, he went on to say how it took several weeks before he witnessed who the true culprits were. After driving home one evening he soon found to his shock the rubber was stripping from his wipers, after buying many sets of replacement wiper blades he went back to his car one evening and found a trail of rubber. One way this whole process could have been avoided was purchasing some silicone replacement wiper blades, silicone is not known to be found in the diets of many animals and also assert much better value for money over the long term. Your basic rubber wiper blade will cost in the region of five to twenty pounds but only be good for approximately one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand cycles. Your basic silicone wiper blade however will be ok for as many as two million individual iterations and keep on going for much longer.

But that’s not all; silicone wipers have many great properties which aid the intrepid car owner, in cold weather climates your basic rubber wipers will stick to the wind screen. Not so with silicone, they have a slick slippery character to them which stops them from sticking to the glass in the cold. Another problem with rubber wipers besides being on the menu for crows is that they are prone to become fixed rigid and inflexible in below zero driving conditions. Silicone wipers do not have this botheration, they are resistant to all kinds of temperature extremes, both hot and cold; they will abide their miraculous abilities. In the heat basic rubber wipers become too soft and physically stick to the wind screen, silicone wipers do not melt; this is why you often find silicone used in cooking equipment and even on space shuttles. Another great property is that they are resistant to erosion by water and pollution such as ozone and sulphuric acid, this is why your common rubber wipers perform so poorly in comparison.