Maintaining your Car Wipers

Wipers are an integral part of a car and are extremely useful during rains and whenever we need to wipe the dust and muck settled on our car's windshield. Everyone loves to pull the wiper switch near the steering wheel and see water squirt with full force onto the windshield while the wiper cleans the windshield.

I realized the importance of wipers when it started to rain all of a sudden whilst i was driving and my wipers refused to budge in spite of me pulling on the friggin wiper switch as hard as i could . I couldn't see a thing and had to pull over to the side and wait for the rains to stop.Later, i found out that the pesky rats had bitten off the wiper wiring ! More on how to stop rats from screwing with your car here.

The wipers are always subjected to a lot of wear and tear. The hot sun especially in a country like India wears out the rubber on the wipers.As also , usage of wipers during the monsoon season causes a lot of wear and tear. And when a stream of dust mixed with water coming from the tires of the car in front of you  settles on your windshield that's when most of the wear occurs. I have experienced this many times, for example you are driving on the highway and all of a sudden it starts to rain heavily. A jet of muddy water from the car in front of you keeps shooting at your car's windshield.When your wiper works on cleaning this! you can imagine its plight.So,bottom line you have to take care of your car wipers !

Let me discuss a few wiper problems and how to resolve them :

1. Water not getting completely wiped or Streaks of water still left

In this case your wiper blade must be worn out or your car windshield might be really very dirty.
Try changing your wiper blade and cleaning your windshield with a light soap solution.If you are not using any wiper solution and simply plain water , I recommend you to use one. Ask your car service as to which is the best wiper solution and use it .

2.Water Beads that Simply Wont Vanish

Beads are usually easy to clean away but somehow these beads stay "put" to your windshield.This problem occurs in areas with high pollution.The residue and muck in the polluted air causes these water beads to stay stuck to the windshield.

Give your windshield a thorough cleaning to make sure no residue is left. Use an effective windshield cleaning solution to remove all the sticky residue. I recommend all of you to make use of 3M Car Care Products they are one of the best in the world.I have been using 3M car care products since almost 3 years now.

3.Chattering Noise

The Chattering Noise that comes from your car wiper is really annoying isnt it ! The noise might be due to oil and grease settled on your windshield but its rarely because of this reason.The main reason for wiper chattering is because of a bent wiper arm.

You must see that the wiper blade is in full contact with the windshield and the blades are parallel with the windshield. If not, use a plier to twist the wiper arm so thats it parallel to the windshield.

Wiper Problems will seldom occur if you :

1.Replace wiper blades at regular intervals.

2.Use an effective wiper fluid instead of plain water in your wiper tank.

3.Treat your windshield with a water repellent.