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March 11th, 2010 admin No comments

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How To Change Windshield Wiper Blades

How many times have you been sitting at the wheel of the car, and it starts to rain, you switch on your wipers and, as you look out through your windshield, you think "I am sure there used to be clear glass here. When did I replace it with a frosted window?" Even if it is not very often, the chances are that you have had underperforming windshield wipers at one point or another. If you have not been using your windshield wipers much recently, it is time to replace them. Bear with us, there is method to our madness.

If you have not been using your wipers recently it means that you have not needed to. This is, in all likelihood, because the weather has been sunny recently and you have had no need to brush aside the rain as it falls onto your car. Therefore, it is as good a time as any to be outside doing something that does not take very long at all. It also means that when that rain does start falling, you are not going to have the situation outlined above where everything goes blurry - because you replaced them when you did not need them. Clever, huh?

As with any replacement process, the first thing you need to do is get rid of the thing that needs to be replaced. Do this carefully, because the combination of metal and glass may be simply to die for in a new office building, but in a car windshield it tends to amount to a big crack in the eyeline of the driver. There is a tab on the underside of the wiper - while holding the wiper arm away from the shield, depress this tab and take the wiper off. Bingo. Now, while reaching for the new wiper, rest the wiper arm GENTLY touching the windshield. This will stop the wiper arm falling VIOLENTLY against the windshield and having the aforementioned smashy drawback.

Now comes the coup de grace - fitting the new wiper to the old arm. This may look like it is going to be difficult, and you may start to question whether in fact you need wipers. You do. Be brave, you are nearly there. Now, look at the wiper blade, where the attachment is to be made. See how one end of the plastic clip device is flat, and one is curved? Rotate the clip until the curved end is pointing towards the blade, and clasp the wiper wrong side up next to the wiper arm. See how the curve in the arm matches with the curved end of the clip? There you go!

Now that it is lined up, you need to drop the wiper on top of the wiper arm, and put the arm between the sides of the wiper, with the open end of the hook pointing towards the plastic clasp. Reposition the hook over the clip and pull up the wiper until they slide together. Pull that tight, so that everything snaps into place, and let down the wiper onto the windshield. Replicate what you have just done, and you have fitted your new wiper blades.

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