Fall is here: time for new wiper blades!

[Devin]

Fall: the season of change. Well, I guess all seasons are seasons of change. Except in Florida. Up here in the Pacific Northwet, I've gone exclusively to changing my wiper blades every fall. I feel like the summer dulls them up and they just don't work right, and visibility is really important.

I know some folks don't change theirs yearly (looking at you @MerlintheMad) but curious to see what the replacement interval for other folks is.

 

[Audible Silence]

since im in florida lol, i usually change mine in the spring before the rainy season.

 

[bfglitch]

I usually try to keep my blades clean. Pretty much once a month I take the time to make sure the blades are cleaned. When I do that they rarely wind up streaking. They usually wind up starting to fall apart instead. Usually if they streak it's because you've got road grime either caked on the blades or something coating your windshield. That or just really crappy blades in the first place.

 

[n8hegr8]

that other guy, "part out"

i did at 10k miles because of streaking, and not that nude kind, and the rubber breaking away from the housing.

 

[Devin]

that other guy, "part out"

i did at 10k miles because of streaking, and not that nude kind, and the rubber breaking away from the housing.

10,000 miles seems pretty short. Within a year?

 

[vipeboy2000]

On other cars, it has varied... once a year or so on cars kept outside all the time and driven in the ice/snow... garage kept car, several years.. Still on the original wipers on the stinger over 2 years now and no streaking at 34k miles.

 

[n8hegr8]

yeah i live in the hood (no garage parking) so its parked outside at all times, extreme heats, extreme cold in the utah..thus bad wiper blades...

 

[ChaneRZ]

I change mine every year. I also put Griot’s Glass Sealant.

 

[stoopid]

I was surprised the OE blades needed to be replaced after a bit over a year. Heat / direct, intense sun must do a number on them. When living in the Northeast I always had to swap them once a year otherwise streaking would be an issue, and with a lot of precip year round that becomes a safety issue.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

I’m almost 5 years in & still on OE wiper blades, they still work great, no streaking or jumpy so I see no reason to change. What are the reasons people are changing them regularly.

 

[mancinia]

Lots of factors can determine the frequency. I usually change mine once a year (in the fall). I am lucky to get a year out of a pair. Here in the Pacific Northwest, it is very dry with little to no rain during the summer. Combine that with 15+ days of over 100 degrees, that takes its toll on wiper blades. I suppose if you lived in a humid, higher precipitation location, the silicon blades would last longer.

 

[AYip31]

Still have not changed out the blades when I got the Stinger brand new, Aug/2020.
At 28k miles. In Florida. BUT it’s garage kept and parked under tree shade when at work.
When I wash my car, ~every 2-3 weeks, i also wipe down the blades too.