More Proof

That I'm an idiot or too busy.

A little over two years ago I had to get my windshield replaced. Not long after it was replaced, the driver side wiper started making this horrible screech when operated.

At first I thought it as a bad wiper blade, so I replaced it.

The screech continued, so I replaced the blade again.

The screech continued or was intermittent, but I gave up.

At some point I turned to Rain-X and stopped using the wipers.

That had gotten me by for a while.

Last night knowing it was going to rain the next two days, I went to reapply the Rain-X when I noticed something funny about the wiper.

There's a clip to which the wiper arm tension spring connects to and that clip was shiny. Upon further inspection I could tell the clip had been rubbing the windshield, thus making the screech. It had nothing to do with the wiper blade. It was the actual wiper arm that was the problem - or worse the windshield has been out of spec. since day one.

Still faced with two days of rain I needed a quick fix. Looking around the garage I saw a bunch of old tubes hanging on a nail. I grabbed one, cut it and pulled it over the wiper arm like a sleeve. I doubled it back on itself for extra protection and Voila! the screech is gone.

It was totally weird driving my quiet car in the rain today.

- b