Do you have the same problem?
It’s raining heavily and you’re driving down the road when your windshield wipers squeak and water splashes everywhere.
Can you tell this doesn’t bother you, it’s certainly not good for the car. Can I solve this problem easily?
If you want to replace the wiper blade bushings yourself, follow these steps:
1.Open the hood and use a wrench to remove the nut on the bottom of the wiper blade.
2.Remove the wipers and remember where they are located.
3.Remove the plastic fasteners and wiper blades rubber from the cowl grille (the plastic cover under the windshield that protects the wipers).
4.Pry open the cowl grille and remove it. This will expose the wiper linkage.
5.Remove the wiper connecting rod. You may need to pry off the plastic bushing.
6.Make sure the pin is clean and install the new connecting rod, popping the bushing onto the pin.
Reinstall everything and test the wipers.
If the wipers are no longer centered, remove the car wipers nut again and readjust as necessary.
If you still can’t solve the problem by following the above steps, if you have a limited budget, you can try replacing wiper blades rubber. Younglook’s wiper blades rubber has a special structure, better wiping effect, and is more durable.
Younglook wiper blades rubber has a patented support and buffer technology.
In addition to three lateral supports on the wiper blades rubber, a support structure is also added to the vertical direction of the wiper blades rubber to ensure that even if the friction on the glass increases, the wiper’s wiping angle will still be the same. It is too large, thus avoiding the occurrence of wiper vibration and noise to a large extent.
Do you know:How do you change wiper blade inserts?
Pull up the windshield wiper blades on the car, find the end of the bayonet with the windshield wiper blades rubber, pull it out hard, and the rubber will be pulled out.
Younglook professionals showed me that all I had to do was use pliers to pull out the two long strips of metal that held the wiper in place. You can see in the image below how the metal strips fill in the gaps in the rubber, pressing the rubber tight against the metal wiper “claws,” holding everything in place.
Take out the two iron bars from the old rubber strip and install the two iron bars into the new rubber strip. Both sides of the iron bar will be the same and will not be pressed in the wrong position.
Slide a new wiper “refill” into the claws, and shove the two strips until they reach the “stop” in the refill (shown below), and you’re all done. It takes two minutes max if you have a good set of thin-nose vice grips.
Then insert the installed rubber strip into the wiper frame. After it is completely inserted, press the end with the buckle a few times to ensure that the rubber strip is buckled in place and will not loosen.
The rubber strip on one side is installed like this, and you can do the same on the other side.
It is very easy to replace the two wiper strips and the whole process takes about five minutes.
Even people with average hands-on ability can complete it, it is very simple.
Per wiper blades company Younglook, replacing just the refill can be only half the price of swapping a full blade.