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| | | | Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 124 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 124 | I don't know if this is the right place to post this but I am having a hard time finding GOOD wiper blades for my truck. I have ordered blades from 2 different venders and have gotten the same crap both times. The blades are mounted with cheap light duty attachments that will bend and get very loose. The first ones that I had on there got loose in the rain one day and came completely off going down the road. I then bought some arms and blades thinking that I would be getting better quality. I was wrong. They were just like the last ones although they haven't swarmed on me yet. Since my other vehicle is a motorcycle, I really need reliable wipers. What do you all do for wipers. By the way they are 12" blades so you can't just go to K-Mart and pick up replacements.
Thanks a lot,
Gene
Gene
1959 Apache
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 177 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 177 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,422 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,422 | What I do is buy high quality wipers that are double the size of my present wipers and cut them in half (width wise of course) to make two sets of blades. I then pull the old out and thread the new in. Takes some time but works well.
I'm going to move this post over to General Truck. More will benefit from greater exposure. Good post, thanks.
Cosmo
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
Rocinante, like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
"...my good horse Rocinante, mine eternal and inseparable companion in all my journeys and courses." ...Don Quixote, Cervantes
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."...Yogi Berra
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." ...Eric Hoffer
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 124 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 124 | Thanks for the replies. I couldn't find them online at napa so if all else fails I am going to drill a small hole and put a bolt through the assembly to keep it from coming loose again and use your plan of cutting my own. That is still faster that waiting on UPS to deliver the inferior reproduction parts from a vendor.
Thanks again,
Gene
Gene
1959 Apache
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