No. Just No.
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023 | Rating: 2/5 | Best Sellers in Automotive
ok this was the biggest pain i 100 got the right size for my 2020 honda accord 26 for the left 16 for the right i am a capable intelligent adult woman i have installed my fair share of windsheild wipers in my 45 years in the rain in the dark at the gas station in front of the auto parts store  on the side of the road in the rain without a flashlighti purchased these left and right to replace my set that was very far gone due to summertime and sapso last evening i attempted to install them ahead of todays rain storm i followed the directions not great directions but i understood them the tab would not click closed i could not have pushed harder without breaking them and my fingers hurt so it was clear to me that the j hook need to be seated further inside the housingso ok i tried and tried to seat the j hook further into the blade housing there was no budging i tried multiple times on both sides i  put enough pressure and force into it that i was afraid i was going to bend or break the metal arm the part attached to my car i actually gave up a first for me i figured i would revisit the issue in the morning with fresh eyes and fingers but the rain was coming and today was an important day so it had to get done its just wiper blades for heavens sake i didnt doubt that i could do it but i tried again and again i called my ex for advice i watched videos i double checked that i had the right size well i ended up having to borrow a friends car to take my kid to school i came back home i tried again nopei had to cancel on a dear friend who desperately need my support in court this is what i am most upset aboutso i read amazon reviews looking for insight i watched youtube videos rain x website videos i desperately tried everything so i could show up for my friend finally but way too late to help my friend i found a post on reddit from some wonderful man who said if the j hooks dont fit down far enough to snap the closure shut and no amount of force is pushing it down you have to remove the black outer casing to expose the three holes on the side and use a small screwdriver to force the j hook far enough in to allow the tab to snap shut are you kidding me so yeah i got to work well it worked thank the lord abovebut by this time its already 5pm court is over and its dark damp and cold then i found out its a bad idea to run rain x wipers over dirty glass its due to rain in an hour my kid has school tomorrow and i have to go to work turns out windsheild wipers are important just saying sogreat and you have to run them at medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes on dry clean glass at the moment of installation wonderful i have a pine tree above my driveway that shares lots of its sap with me so i wash the windsheild with soap and water rince dry use a razor blade for the drops of sap wipe away any traces of sap with rubbing alcohol final rinse and dry with a microfiber clothok i remove the yellow protective case around the blades lower them lovingly onto my sparkling clean and dry windsheild turn the car on run the wipers on the dry windsheild at medium speed for 3 minutes then add the final splash of water i got back in the car to check out my handiwork turn the wipers on and with every swipe of the blades there is a haze that lasts for a couple seconds not a problem if youre just swiping away a little water or using low speed however if you are using high speed wipers the temporary haze doesnt go away fast enough before the next swipe wonderful because yes i went through all that so that i could drive around in a rainstorm with a windsheild i cant see out ofi am so very displeased i never thought that in my life i would have such an issue and have so many problems because of windshield wiper blades this is ridiculous writing this review is ridiculous and probably a fat waste of my time but honestly im mad enough that i dont care what is the deal with over complicated wiper blades why is there an outer shell an inner blue piece and so many different ways to configure it but no actual way to use it without finding a person on reddit to tell you how i 100 did everything right i even had my friend try to put the wipers on he couldnt do it eitherill give two stars instead of one for this reason i should have bought new blades before winter and before it was totally necessary im willing to take responsibility for that i also should have done more research you know kinda like a stupid tax that i have to pay if i wasnt busy with kids and career and life i guess i should have found the time to research these blades so that i wouldnt have bought themthe dirty windsheild the sap ok thats my problem i should have done more research into rain x the fact of the matter is i just wanted wiper blades to wipe the water away i assumed a name brand set was a good idea but i didnt put much thought into what rain x was my fault i didnt know that the blades have a coating of rain x that makes a mess another stupid tax and that it has to be properly prepped not that proper preparation did me the slightest bit of good i dont know did i miss a step i just thought it was a brand my badin the past depending on the circumstances of my wiper needs i always either just bought bosch or a store brand and just put them on the stinking carnonsense never again overly complicated difficult and very disappointing results once these blades are either worn out or prove to be a hazard due to not being able to see i am anticipating having to strip the product off of my windsheild with some chemical ill probably find help for that issue on redditi just want to say that once i had finally found someone to tell me how to get enough leverage to forcibly shove the j hook in the wipers far enough to lock them in place without damaging my car  and gathered all my tools it took me 40 minutes start to finish to install and prep the windsheild with wholly disappointing results i will reiterate here that i am a very capable woman installing wiper blades is way below my pay grade im obviously irritated and now i will be even more irritated tomorrow when i drive to work in a rainstorm and cant see out of my windsheild total garbage