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Old 10-10-2007, 12:53 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Re: Lets talk Wipers

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Originally Posted by roy365
Funny you ask about maintaining them.....i had read before that if you take a cloth with some rubbing alcohol and wipe them it helps get some of the trash off. (kinda like a window seal/sill when you install rainouts) I dont know if this helps life of wiper or not, just kinda cleans them if you are getting some streaks.
Rubbing alcohol works great, but some of the newer types of wipers (I don't know about the ICONs, but some types of Bosch wipers I've bought in the past did) have graphite on the blades, like some kind of dusting or something. The first time you clean them with rubbing alcohol, you wipe that off.

Kinda like cleaning your carpet with bleach I guess. It WILL come clean, but it may not ever look right again.

Okay, it's not really remotely like cleaning your carpet with bleach. I'm bad with examples.
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