Factory airfoil wiper IS a must!
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Factory airfoil wiper IS a must!
I had trouble finding the metric refills for the stock wiper arms a while back, so I put on some ANCO replacements.......the first time I drove at speed (above 80 mph) in the rain, I noticed that the driver's wiper was totally ineffective. I had finally found a replacement insert and installed in on the stock wiper with the "airfoil" and there is a world of difference.
Kudos to Mazda's engineers for once again designing functionality into the form of the car, be it a lowly wiper arm!
Kudos to Mazda's engineers for once again designing functionality into the form of the car, be it a lowly wiper arm!
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Whoa, you drive over 80mph in the rain?
Your much braver then I am, either that or you got kick *** tires and can handle drifting/sliding in the rain.
Anyways, I just replaced my windsheild wipers yesterday with Bosch Micro Edge Excel wiper blades and they seem to be very good, infact they are the best wiper blades I have ever put on a car although the other ones I have tried were all peices of crap, they would streak and chatter and some just did not work.
Your much braver then I am, either that or you got kick *** tires and can handle drifting/sliding in the rain.
Anyways, I just replaced my windsheild wipers yesterday with Bosch Micro Edge Excel wiper blades and they seem to be very good, infact they are the best wiper blades I have ever put on a car although the other ones I have tried were all peices of crap, they would streak and chatter and some just did not work.
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Originally posted by skunks
Whoa, you drive over 80mph in the rain?
Your much braver then I am, either that or you got kick *** tires and can handle drifting/sliding in the rain.
Anyways, I just replaced my windsheild wipers yesterday with Bosch Micro Edge Excel wiper blades and they seem to be very good, infact they are the best wiper blades I have ever put on a car although the other ones I have tried were all peices of crap, they would streak and chatter and some just did not work.
Whoa, you drive over 80mph in the rain?
Your much braver then I am, either that or you got kick *** tires and can handle drifting/sliding in the rain.
Anyways, I just replaced my windsheild wipers yesterday with Bosch Micro Edge Excel wiper blades and they seem to be very good, infact they are the best wiper blades I have ever put on a car although the other ones I have tried were all peices of crap, they would streak and chatter and some just did not work.
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i hit 150 on an open stretch of open highway and tried to use the wipers to get the bugs off my windshield. For the record, the wipers are ineffective at 150 and they were the reason i backed off.
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Originally posted by Quik 93 FD
i hit 150 on an open stretch of open highway and tried to use the wipers to get the bugs off my windshield. For the record, the wipers are ineffective at 150...
i hit 150 on an open stretch of open highway and tried to use the wipers to get the bugs off my windshield. For the record, the wipers are ineffective at 150...
I don't know why this made me laugh so much, but it did.
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yeah, I'm thinking about taking my wipers off entirely. And relying on rain-x
You know, you can buy these expensive PIAA wipers that don't have the wing thing, and are supposed to not lift at high speeds.. I'm thinking about trying them out.
You know, you can buy these expensive PIAA wipers that don't have the wing thing, and are supposed to not lift at high speeds.. I'm thinking about trying them out.
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Will the Bosch wiper inserts fit on the stock wipers? My wiper blades need replacing and I'm hoping to find something better-than-stock that will work with the stock wipers.
Jason
Jason
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Originally posted by Knifeboy
Will the Bosch wiper inserts fit on the stock wipers? My wiper blades need replacing and I'm hoping to find something better-than-stock that will work with the stock wipers.
Jason
Will the Bosch wiper inserts fit on the stock wipers? My wiper blades need replacing and I'm hoping to find something better-than-stock that will work with the stock wipers.
Jason
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Ex fd *****
The most important thing for good wiper performance is to keep the glass very CLEAN and Lots of RAIN-X, I love that stuff, makes the water just slid right off!
PS I use the TRICO "Exact Fit" replacment blades and they work great.
PS I use the TRICO "Exact Fit" replacment blades and they work great.
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