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Fu Manchu

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I’m pumped for this topic. It intermittently comes up from time to time. We can now wipe it off the list of wiper threads.
 

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Today I put some new wipers on the VZ.
$45 on eBay.

I asked myself this,
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Went with these over priced Braumach wipers.
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They are fitted on our new Santa Fe and work as good as the floppy over priced one piece blades used on VE VF (which each luckily have dedicated wiper threads)
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I liked the way they clip in. It’s not going to come out easy. Those wiper arms and wiper shroud are going to be getting a freshen up.
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They were the easiest wipers to fit that I’ve ever done in on a car in all my decades of driving. Took a minute or two.
Here’s the helpful instructions via QR codes that came with it including a helpful YouTube be video.

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Good for 2 million wipes! Must be good for getting peanut butter out of carpet as well because it’s not the first time I will have wiped 2 million times.

Old ones went…
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And I though the "what did you do to your car today" thread was for

Stupid me

I will now go out into the garage and lay on the cold concrete for an hour or two to teach myself a lesson
 

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You can actually buy a tool to clean wiper blades. It’s not going to recondition them like new but as soon as mine start farting or sticking I wipe the tool down them a couple of times and then forget to buy new ones for a few months and repeat. It was only 10-15 buck off Wish or AliExpress. Its plastic with bits of sandpaper cut down and on angles. Won’t fix hardened rubber or anything but can be done a lot of times.
A link to a similar product
AU $13.89 35% Off | Baseus Car Wiper Blade Repair Universal Auto Windshield Wiper Refurbish Tool Car Windshield Wiper Blade Repair
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOJsBHo

I guess plastic doesn’t last long enough and they’ve changed them to metal to charge more for them. But should work the same
 

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You can actually buy a tool to clean wiper blades. It’s not going to recondition them like new but as soon as mine start farting or sticking I wipe the tool down them a couple of times and then forget to buy new ones for a few months and repeat. It was only 10-15 buck off Wish or AliExpress. Its plastic with bits of sandpaper cut down and on angles. Won’t fix hardened rubber or anything but can be done a lot of times.
A link to a similar product
AU $13.89 35% Off | Baseus Car Wiper Blade Repair Universal Auto Windshield Wiper Refurbish Tool Car Windshield Wiper Blade Repair
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOJsBHo

I guess plastic doesn’t last long enough and they’ve changed them to metal to charge more for them. But should work the same
Not a bad idea especially for the expensive beam blades like the VE has. Might invest in one.
 

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Not a bad idea especially for the expensive beam blades like the VE has. Might invest in one.
Just bought this one which is a bit closer to home. Will be interesting to see how it goes cause my wipers have started streaking and farting lately and I would have changed them out shortly.

If the repair tool can give them an extra 6 months plus of service life the tool will have paid for itself on the first application.


https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3135285...hxbo5rcsxq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 

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Hmmm, when I wash my car I always lift the wipers up away from the screen so I can wash the screen easier, and at the same time I run the sponge along the wiper blades to clean them.
I never really thought of this as being rocket science.
 

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Hmmm, when I wash my car I always lift the wipers up away from the screen so I can wash the screen easier, and at the same time I run the sponge along the wiper blades to clean them.
I never really thought of this as being rocket science.
I do that as well but it doesn’t fix the imperfections in the blade. The tool hopefully should sand down the blade imperfections and make them work properly for a bit longer.
 

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This also helps....
 
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