Anco wiper blades called a CR best buy

Honda OEM blades have always, ALWAYS been the best you can ever buy.

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Prove it.

And yet I get better results every time with Tryco. Go figure.

Is there a difference in the rubber or synthetic material Anco and Tryco, other windshield wipers manufacturers use? cuhulin

They prove themselves.

Thus spake "larry moe 'n curly" :

Where, IIRC, I10 has 30 ft high pillars with signs pointing to them that say something like "flood escape route". You know, for the biennial "Phoenix Creek becomes Phoenix River torrent".

I'm closer to I-17.

There are typically 30-40 days of rain here each year, but about 28 of them are storm days, and we don't have anything close to the drainage capacity that a place like Chicago does. The last big floods here occurred in the 1980s, when 100-year floods occurred two years in a row and wiped out all the bridges across the Salt River, except for one in Tempe built in the 1930s as a New Deal make-work project.

So it would seem that since Honda does not make these items, there is no true good reason to prefer Honda ATF or oil over another manufacturer if produced to the same standards.

Haha, are you talking about wiper blades or wiper blade refills? Replacing the blade every six months is a waste of money.

They dont make oil, they specify it and it is nothing special or better than what other cars use. Paying a dealer his markup is a waste.

The new Autozone battery I bought for my 1983 Dodge van was made by Johnson Controls.Chrysler once brought a lawsuit agains't Johnson Controls because of overpricing the batteries. cuhulin

Sure they do.

They spec power steering fluid and auto trans fluid, and if you bypass their stuff, you see problems.

Engine oil, probably not.

It probably is. But I bet their limited slip differential lube isn't the same as the off-the-shelf Mobil product, even if it's made by Mobil.

Oil is pretty generic, some other fluids aren't.

--scott

Sochio (spelling) Honda got started after World War Two by cobbling some little gas engines onto bicycles. cuhulin

concur - i've tried all kinds of blades and the ones sold as oem honda are by far the best i've used. both for initial quality and durability.

It depends on what specification the fluids are made to. If Honda fluids are made to the same specification as those for other vehicles, then it should not make a difference which brand is used.

Go ahead, then, use non-Honda ATF and tell us what you think.

Same with coolant.

Shoot, same with power steering fluid nowadays.

They're all part of a complex system that's highly engineered. Long gone are the days of everybody using the same stuff that's off the shelf at Goober's gas station.

How do you know if a particular brand of ATF has the same additives. Some after-market stuff may not cause problems but whether they provide optimal performance for your vehicle is another question.

According to the service manual, non-OEM anti-freeze on a Honda could lead to corrosion. Why take that chance. The OEM anti-freeze can last for a long long time. $15 is a cheap insurance.

While specific components that are manufactured for specific applications will be built for those applications, genric items that are manufactured to a general specification and relabled as OEM are not. This is something I am quite familiar with, as I have been in the OEM industry for many years (non automotive, but OEM non the less).