Just bought some boosch wipers off ebay for out mk4 golf and was browsing around wilkinson and was wondering if anyone has used their home brand wiper. They cost about £1.49.
Just wondeirng if anyone has used them and if they are any good at clearing and lastability as I might put them on our lupo.
Thanks
"Sarah" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
They'll be worth every penny.
you'd be better off straping a couple of curly wurlys to the wiper arms !
I bought a set from Wilkinson's many years ago to fit to my Cinq.
The Cinq. only had one wiper speed, but 2 (yay!) intermittent settings - which meant the wipers only ever did 'fast'.
Anyway, said cheapo wiper blades lasted about 30 miles before the driver's side blade flew off into a bush whilst on 'normal' wiper setting (ie. fast as f*ck with a delay between wipes that wasn't as long as the intermittent setting)
Cheap wipers BLOW.
I always put Bosch Aero-Twins on my cars once the OE ones die. By this I mean, I've put them on one car :-) (The Vee) They were very good though, the faster you went the harder they were pressed to the glass. And they didn't have those little fins or anything, the back was like, curved to get the air to press them down. Also, I can confirm that at 150ish indicated, I was able to wash my windows normally without the wipers jumping. Although, the water did fly up the window and off over the roof a bit quickly... Private land etc etc.
Yes - used them many times. Just as good as any other normal wiper blades.
Go on - push the boat out for £1.49 and tell us how _you_ rate them!
Don't condemn them _just_ because it's easy to sneer at things that don't have a fancy name, and aren't advertised in boy-racer comics, or that don't have good enough instructions for the mechanically-challenged to fit them correctly.
Bought a set for my car - the passenger one seems fine, but the drivers side squeeked, clicked, and was generally very poor and noisy - got a champion one from local factors (£6-49), and world of difference - still ok on passenger side though.
Graham
Were they mighty?
Wipers squeaking is nearly always because the wiper arm is twisted and not at exactly 90 degrees to the screen. Clearly the fact that one was ok and one wasn't indicates the problem lay elsewhere than the blades.
If changing the blade for a Champion one fixed it would that not suggest it was the blade (possibly a duff linkage where it attaches to the arm).
Perhaps some are a little more tolerant than others at being a bit mis-aligned.
I bought a pair of cheapos from a pound shop. They wipe perectly but squeak all the time, the same as they do when the screen drys out a bit.
Bill
No the super :)
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