Wiper Blade Recommendations

[Steampunk]

First stop: K-Mark and the Aunger silicone ones. $10 for the pair.

These exact ones are on all my cars. Same quality, perhaps better, than expensive/fancy silicon. I've stocked up on a couple twin sets as spares on hand as they seem to be stocking less and less of them.
Don't bother with twin blade or multi-blade ones.
Rubber is absolute waste of $$, lasts a few years.

[Cus]

Here is a picture I took of the work of the rubbers from the local shop. Not saying rubber is worse than silicone for wiping windows, but if you're "out bush" and only have one parts shop, the silicone parts may have a better shelf life. If you live somewhere with people and your local shop has a high stock turnover, buy whatever facilitates buoyancy in your vessel ;)



The KMart ones are as good as gold though. Clocked up a few K's here and there in various conditions, they only place they're not right "on the money" is near the ends of the blades, they don't seem to push down as well for the last centimeter or so. Everywhere else on the blade is streak-free and wonderful.

[Cus]

Belated update to this.

Twice in the last week I've had the wipers "stick"

Both times it's been a case of no rain (dry window) and a cleanish window. The last time was just after washing my windscreen at the servo, pulled into the road, gave it the squirt-and-a-wave to clean the streaks off and the blades moved a couple of inches and stalled. I had to pull over and lift the driver's side blade off the window (it was closest) to get them moving again. Once the blades are wet, they're fine.

No conclusion, just an anecdote.