The Best Wiper Blades in the World and Why

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This person seems like he could be insane, but I believe him about wiper blades.

👍︎︎ 507 👤︎︎ u/cheapdad 📅︎︎ Apr 02 2018 🗫︎ replies

Tldw.

Piaa Silicon. I've also been happy with Bosch which still worked decently in spite of Arizona heat.

👍︎︎ 59 👤︎︎ u/SarcasticOptimist 📅︎︎ Apr 02 2018 🗫︎ replies

Fun Fact: Wiper blades have the highest profit margin of any product in the automotive category.

Source: I work with the 2nd largest blade manufacture in the world.

👍︎︎ 19 👤︎︎ u/Blownbunny 📅︎︎ Apr 03 2018 🗫︎ replies

Tldr: get silicon wiper blades

👍︎︎ 133 👤︎︎ u/bugginout888 📅︎︎ Apr 02 2018 🗫︎ replies

u/proteus-core actually changed my entire opinion of this guy. i was initially recommending scottys other videos because a few had been interesting to me in the past.

in the threads proteus references, there are much better channels out there. Scotty actually has misinformed people in the past.

i stand by the silicone wiper blades though lol

👍︎︎ 41 👤︎︎ u/coffffeeee 📅︎︎ Apr 02 2018 🗫︎ replies

i like this guy

Edit: further research now points not to take any mechanical advice from guy.

He has a cool personality. Thats what I meant to say.

👍︎︎ 68 👤︎︎ u/gepgepgep 📅︎︎ Apr 02 2018 🗫︎ replies

PIAA is great though.

👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Apr 02 2018 🗫︎ replies

I also switched to PIAA wipers. Never been happier.

👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/DevilsX 📅︎︎ Apr 03 2018 🗫︎ replies

"HAY GUYS!!!1 IT'S SPITTY YELLMORE HERE WITH A 4MINUTE DEAFENING VIDEO TO TELL YOU TO BUY SILICON WIPER BLADES PLZ CLICK MY ADDS SO I CAN BUY A HEARING AID!111!!"

👍︎︎ 13 👤︎︎ u/Digitalsoul88 📅︎︎ Apr 03 2018 🗫︎ replies
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rev up your engines today I'm going to talk about the best wiper blades and why they are the best wiper blades, welcome to mechanic Monday, and as usual I'm telling you the truth about stuff, no one's sponsoring this except the truth, I've tried out various types of wiper blades over the years, and I've come to one conclusion, the best wiper blades are silicone wiper blades and to understand why, here's a history lesson, in 1903 Mary Anderson invented the car wiper blade, now the original wiper blades are made of natural rubber, which whites water off pretty good, but it's got one major disadvantage, in the heat and the Sun, the rubber deteriorates relatively quickly, and then you got to buy another blade, so then later they came out with synthetic rubber blades and added some graphite to the mix to make them last longer, but the graphite sometimes makes noise, if you notice when you're driving and it's just the light rain, a lot of times you hear these noises, that's the graphite kind of rubbing on your windshield and make a noise, but then they came out with silicone wiper blades years ago, they did cost a lot more a long time ago, because they were kind of not mass-produced all that much, but today because a lot less than they used to, they still might cost twice as much, but hey they can last four, five, six, ten times longer than the rubber ones do, I don't have the car anymore, but I used to have a 1981 Toyota Corolla sr5 and I put a set of silicone wiper blades on it, and after ten years they were still the same blades and they still wiped good, silicone is just a stronger longer-lasting material, years ago, I put a silicone valve cover gasket on my Toyota here, which originally came with a rubber gasket, but when I found out these silicone ones are supposed to last longer, I put in a silicone one, now I had to change the old rubber valve cover gaskets every three four or five years, they would start leaking, but the silicone ones been in there for more than ten years and it's still not leaking, so it's still a better material, now the main enemies of wiper blades are ultraviolet rays of the Sun, heat, and dirt in our atmosphere it destroys rubber much faster than it destroys silicon, and silicon wiper blades have an added benefit, as they wipe they actually leave little residues of silicone, which is waterproof and it actually makes your wipers work better over time, instead of worse like rubber that leaves deposits that make it harder to wipe, now of course to make them last as long as they can, you want to keep your windshield relatively clean, because dirt creates friction and that's going to wear out even silicon blades over time, but the silicon blades hey another reason they last longer is, they retain their pliability longer than the rubber do, and they can handle extremes of temperatures better than the rubber can too, so if you live in a really hot place, or you live in a really cold place, these silicone wiper blades they're going to last longer and work better then rubber ones are, a few years back I went to an auto parts store, and I went to the manager and said you know I've been trying out these silicone blades they work pretty good, how come you guys don't sell them here, and the manager, who was no fool, said Scotty we sell thousands of rubber wiper blades every month in the store, if we were to sell silicone wiper blades over time our sales would just go down to almost nothing, so you might have to search around a little to find good silicone wiper blades, but with the internet and amazon, 2-day free shipping, you can find it just about anywhere and have them sent to your house, and since this is a mechanic's Monday, I'm giving away a set of silicone wiper blades, to have a chance to win, just put a clean non offensive comment in the YouTube comments below, and a computer will randomly pick a winner, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!
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Channel: Scotty Kilmer
Views: 1,401,518
Rating: 4.9083357 out of 5
Keywords: wiper blades, wiper blades explained, best wiper blade, windshield wipers, wiper blade, best windshield wipers, best windshield wipers for winter, best windshield wipers for snow and rain, best wiper blades review, best wiper blades for rain, the best, best, windshield wiper blades, best in the world, why, rubber wiper blades, rubber wiper vs silicone wiper, silicone vs rubber wiper blades, silicone wiper blades, car, car repair, diy, scotty kilmer, wiper blades review, review
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Length: 4min 2sec (242 seconds)
Published: Mon Apr 02 2018
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