I bought Goodyear blades at Costco for my F-150. Not so good. I live 3 blocks from the beach, no garage, so I'm constantly spraying cleaner on my windshield. I bought Michelins at Costco for SWIMBO's C30. They work great, we've had a ton of rain this winter, no issues, $9 each, if I recall.
I've been using Bosch with great results, same with Costco Michelins, but usually, anything new is good. I did have one set streak from new though. In my experience Rain-X fluid streaks and the regular blue is best.
aircooled said:I have adapted a Summer Blade and Winter Blade policy. Use old blades in summer when you almost never need them (and they just get roasted), put the newer ones on for winter. When you replace, winter goes to summer, summer goes to trash.
I hate to be obtuse, but, isn't this really just "I put new blades on at the start of every winter"?
For the low cost, I think the Costco Michelin blades are great. They have worked on every car I’ve put them on (at least 3 cars). And I was not impressed with the Goodyear blades. I have found that wiper blades are vehicle dependent, probably due to the change of curvature of the windshields. I’m surprised there are so many good reviews for the Bosch blades, because I bought some when beam-type blades were new, and they streaked and never kept consistent pressure across the entire sweep.
I have been using the orange Rain-X for years. And I think it’s great. I haven’t noticed the streaking that others state. It also works like Rain-X to help bead up water.
Also I have found that you can extend wiper blades performance by dragging sandpaper across the edge of the blade to sort or re-cut the edge. I can do that until the blades rip off the base, although I have to do it more toward the end of life. I keep a little 1.5 inch square of sandpaper in my glove box just for this.
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