Historically, standard natural rubber was the go-to material utilized for wiper blade elements. It’s flexible, reasonably durable.
Silicone wiper blades don’t handle fluctuating conditions well and even the best silicone wiper will tend to wear out fast compared to organic rubber.
Plus silicone rubber is known to smear and leave haze across your windscreen.
So it’s safe to say you’re better off with rubber windshield wiper blades over silicone.
If you want to know the answer to this question, you must first understand the essential difference between them.
The biggest difference is that the Wiper Blade Refills material is different. The most common rubber wiper adhesives are mainly used for natural rubber and charcoal black. We have introduced the production process of the rubber strip.
Silicone Wiper Refills, its main material is added with modified silicone, but the production process is similar to the rubber rainwater. However, the added silicone ingredients will continue to form a layer of silicon oil film in the work of Wiper Blades. Make rainwater unable to stay directly forming water droplets to slide away
why is Silicone Wiper Blades more expensive than Rubber Wiper Blades?
For example, the Wiper Blades on the right in the figure above uses the modified Silicone Wiper Blades from Japan. The price of one pair is about $ 45. The price we bought from the Chinese market.
On the left, a pair of ordinary Younglook rubber wiper was only about $ 4.5 a pair, which was 10 times different from Silicone Wiper Blades.
Because compared with natural rubber, silicone Refills is better heat-resistant and cold-resistant. For example, Younglook Wiper Blades Refills is already a very good product in Rubber Wiper Blades. Its natural rubber strip can withstand -40 degrees Celsius at low temperature. 100 degrees Celsius does not deform. It is not a problem to use 90%of the world’s places, but if the extreme situation of less than -40 degrees Celsius occurs, the problem of frozen rubber strips may occur.
However, the silicone Refills will not. Its maximum temperature can withstand 200 degrees Celsius, and the minimum can withstand -50 degrees Celsius without deformation. Therefore, there is no difference in daily environment, but silicone is more suitable for extreme environments than rubber.
Silicone Refill has a long service life, because Rubber Refill has been cracked under the time of ultraviolet rays and continuous contact with the oxygen in the air, and the angle between Rubber Refill and glass will become more and more crooked, which will lead to each. Planting Wiper Blades jumping, abnormal noise, and not cleaning, this is why the ordinary wiper needs to be replaced once a year.
But the silicone wiper does not, it can hardly crack, so it can be used for a long time.
Does Rubber Wiper Blades have advantages?
The rubber wiper is more silent than the silicone wiper, because the silicone wiper must be added to the silicone strip because of the coating effect. The friction force is greater than rubber, so as long as the silicone wiper is slightly unclean, it is easy to produce frictional sounds. I believe that those who have used a silicone wiper must have experience.
However, the relatively hard Rubber Wiper Blades will be much better. For example, the quiet patent technology Wiper Blades of Younglook uses a patented support buffer design to keep the angle of Rubber and glass, maintain small friction for a longer time. Status, so that the wiper work is smoother, and it also avoids excess noise.
But in general, the fundamental reason why Silicone Wiper Blades is more expensive than Rubber Wiper Blades is that there are very few silicone in the process of wiper production.