Windshield wipers skipping
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Windshield wipers skipping
Ive tried deep cleaning the blades and windshield. Use rainx, fairly new blades and yet they still skip. Going back down is the worst but going up is pretty bad too.
Any solutions?
Any solutions?
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Rainx is crap. I used aquapel on the lexus, skipped first time it rained, and never again since. I used gtecniqe on my other car, never skipped. The stuff i used on my other car I applied about 3 years ago, still works great. Beads water like it did when I applied it. I rarely if ever use anything more than intermittent on my other car. With the lexus I just let it do it’s thing. Aquapel still works great, but I only applied it back in August so it hasn’t actually been that long.
Never had great results with rainx stuff. Or at least it never lasted as long as I wanted considering the effort it took.
Never had great results with rainx stuff. Or at least it never lasted as long as I wanted considering the effort it took.
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Rainx is crap. I used aquapel on the lexus, skipped first time it rained, and never again since. I used gtecniqe on my other car, never skipped. The stuff i used on my other car I applied about 3 years ago, still works great. Beads water like it did when I applied it. I rarely if ever use anything more than intermittent on my other car. With the lexus I just let it do it’s thing. Aquapel still works great, but I only applied it back in August so it hasn’t actually been that long.
Never had great results with rainx stuff. Or at least it never lasted as long as I wanted considering the effort it took.
Never had great results with rainx stuff. Or at least it never lasted as long as I wanted considering the effort it took.
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the blades on my RCF skip like crazy and changing the blades has never helped, and I've never used anything on my windshield, RainX or otherwise, I use soap and water and a microfiber, and have done so for years with all my cars, and none of my other cars have had this issue.
the only thing that has "solved" it, though be it only temporarily has been using a razor blade on the windshield to clean off whatever sticks to it in those areas causing the skip. doing so stops the skip for a week or two.. frankly it is very irritating, and I have no idea why I only have the issue with the Lexus, and not any other car.
the only thing that has "solved" it, though be it only temporarily has been using a razor blade on the windshield to clean off whatever sticks to it in those areas causing the skip. doing so stops the skip for a week or two.. frankly it is very irritating, and I have no idea why I only have the issue with the Lexus, and not any other car.
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I've used Rain-X when i lived in the Northeast 2004 and prior and never had problems with it. However, they might have reformulated it since then.
Now that i'm living in LA, i use my wiper blades like 3 times/year :P
Now that i'm living in LA, i use my wiper blades like 3 times/year :P
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