Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Hint, type handy, 1 each.....
ron thomas


Being a transplanted Southern Californian, I had no real idea of what rain was. There a heavy rain YEAR was 11 inches. Here we can get close to 80 inches a year. So the problems attendant to rain really were nada compared to Oregon.


Jacky and I have one thing that we really found aggravating. Windshield wipers. On the upsweep they often streak and are irratatingly noisy. The down sweep is nearly as bad. Without sufficent rain on the window you get that loud dull skipping sound. Road film causes streaking. I thought this can't be right after grinding our teeth all the way to Salem last week. So I went on a search of the web to find out if there isn't a better mouse trap out there. Turns out there is. It's no biggy but now we have almost silent wipers and very little streaking.


Thought we would pass it along to you if you already didn't know.. When you buy your wipers buy "Silicone" wipers not rubber. Buy the entire wiper assembly it has new springs that make the blade conform to your window... The secret though is SILICONE NOT RUBBER.


WalMart charges about the same for the Silicone as they do for rubber... our advice try them soon.

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