$60 for a pair of wiper blades?:jaw:
Says the guy from Southern California...
Trust me, about the time you're driving over a mountain pass in an 'effing blizzard, and the wipers aren't working because they're icing up and not flexing enough to actually, y'know, wipe, in the cold? When you have to stop every ten minutes, 'cos you've got the iceberg that sunk the Titanic flopping around on your windshield? Yeah... Those kinda conditions.
You'll be willing to pay a hundred dollars a blade. Been there, done that, ain't going to be there again. The $60.00 wipers are a literal life-saver, in some of the conditions I have to drive in. They also do a really superior job under the normal set of conditions that everyone else might encounter. As well as, continuously apply a coating of silicone with every pass, which adds up to a very slick, water-beading surface after you've used them for a year or two. You can see a distinct swathe on my Land Cruiser where the silicone has laid down a track, and that's where the water doesn't stick. It's an interesting phenomenon...
I wish SilBlade had stuck with what they were selling, or that I'd had the sense to buy a couple more sets, back when. They cheaped out on something, and the current product just isn't what it used to be. The PIAA ones I have now seem to be really good, but the only thing that will tell for sure is time and use.
There are regional things that make no sense outside that region; buddy of mine back in the day made a religious rite of soaking his undercarriage with Fluid Film, once in November, again in January, and then another time in the spring. Dude never had a rust spot, anywhere, and he drove in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan at least a hundred thousand miles a winter. His cars lasted fer-freakin'-ever, and he regularly got accused of "not being from around here...", because his older-model sedan was immaculate, and without rust. No, he just took steps that would be senseless in say, Arkansas or Arizona.
