Topic: Problem with "frameless / Reflex" style wiper?

[airbalancer]

I had an issue with the wiper no staying on the Echos windshield..like what you described.  CDN Tire sells these springs that connect to the arm and hold the wiper good and solid on the windshield. 

Many moons ago (before this thing called the internet) I recall reading someone's advice not to use those springs as the added friction wears down the wiper motor quicker. I dunno.

And now my one month old Reflex wiper is not wiping half the passenger side. Back to the teflon ones from Crappy Tire after this...

You are lucky it is not the driver side

[The Fuzz]

You are lucky it is not the driver side

So are the people in front of me. 

[maritime_storm]

The problem with frameless wipers is the marketing people. I have Michelin Radius on both my Saturns, yesterday I took them off my 99 SL1 and installed a regular cheap pair for the winter, reason the passenger wiper overhangs the windshield by 3/4" and the cold weather make the wiper frame too stiff to straighten out when it comes back on to the windshield. The pair on my ION work perfectly fine in cold weather. As for the reflex wipers, CTC has switched back to the original manufacturer in the past month or too, and we seem to once have a decent wiper again(the second manufacturers product was crap, but they wipers easy to spot, the blade sits into a grove cut in the frame, causing the blade to dislodge the first time it sees resistance). That all having been said, both types of wipers still freeze up, chatter, and skip, regardless of what the marketing people will tell you.

[Squishy]

Those frameless wipers never seemed like a good idea to me, so I never tried them.  This winter I'm experimenting with those double-blade wipers you find in CT's "ricer" section - not for the double blade, which is actually a bit of a minus in snowstorms, but for the all-plastic construction with big hinges.  So far my 20"/20" wipers have not frozen up at all.

I've found that water tends to get underneath the rubber covering the winter wipers, and when that happens, it makes them worse than conventional wipers.  The water never goes away, and freezes up the hinges every time you shut off the car.  I started sealing them up with silicone, but that meant it would be difficult to remove the endcaps and refill the wiper, hence my switch to the ricer wipers.

[safristi]

..Yer a WILD & RICEY GUY........can i have MOO GOO GUY Windshield to GO..........