If you reside in a bit of the planet where winter prevails you have surely seen by now that wiper blades efficiency can reduce drastically during the frigid winter months and show a marked about turn in amenable weather. The reason for this is simple, the rubber on the wiper blades has a inclination to freeze in cold temperatures and become very hard and rigid, without the natural flex of the rubber the wiper blades cannot conform itself to the contours of the wind screen and the result is severely detracted performance. They usually just end up clearing relatively small patches of the wind screen which the driver then has to see through as they drive dangerously along the road toward their inevitable Day of Judgment. So what? You may be thinking but this is quite irresponsible what happens if you run over a tiny child or even worse an animal, like a cute little squirrel with dreamy cartoon eyes and a bushy tail. You’ve all seen the Disney channel where the intrepid mongoose and his band of stereotyped friends step out on to the high way in order to discover a new home or some such nonsense. Well without wiper blades just imagine how that movie would end? The cute little guys would be heartlessly culled in an act of hideous depravity, blood and goo every where, oh the horror. Sometimes there are other hazards out there related to starting your car on cold winter mornings, frequently the wiper blades can become frozen solid to the wind screen and when turned on they are ripped away from the arms.
Even worse than dropping your wiper blade you can badly damage the internal mechanism of the wiper blade arm and you will find yourself being charged a huge bill by some gruff mechanic who seemingly over charges people like you, how else would this guy put his kids through college and you don’t want that, you don’t want to be subsidising the accomplishments of his offspring, not on my watch chief. Other less sensational consequences of using different wiper blade in the low temp is that you will no doubt be coerced to use an anti freeze in your washer fluid.
The issue with this solution is the chemicals in the anti freeze will both give you cancer and make your replacement wiper blades rot quite rapidly. So what is a guy to do? Another issue of the dreaded big freeze is that the low temp will cause the joints in the appliance arm to contract and seize up, when summer comes about these joints will then expand in the summer sun and the mechanical arm will no longer swing properly. It will be forever out of adjustment and you will never have the humble joy of clean wind screens ever again, not in your life time anyway. Another aftermath of all this replacement wiper blades bending is that the replacement wiper blades will tend to make a lot of babble and shake about when in use. This is probably the most grueling manifestation of replacement wiper blades rot and needs to be avoided at all costs.
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