# $18 per wiper blade?!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090 "2007-03-15T21:27:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090/1 "2007-03-15T21:27:14Z")

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I’ve seen the ads for the Rain-x Latitude which apparently will revolutionize how I see bad weather. The $17.99 per blade plus S&H has me a little bugged out thought.

Could it be worth it?

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**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090/2 "2007-03-15T21:54:05Z")

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Don’t know about the Rain-X blades, we sell Bosch Icon at my store. IMHO if you change your blades every six months and clean the glass just using the standard blades should be fine.

Using a windshield “treatment” like Rain-X does help.

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**Author:** ![Della](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@Della](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Della)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090/3 "2007-03-16T00:00:53Z")

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It could be worse. My car’s wiper blades are a non-standard size and one replacement blade costs $38.

The other one costs $37.

It hurts on a very fundamental level.

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090/4 "2007-03-16T04:12:26Z")

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Ya know, I’ve kept cars as long as five years, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a wiper blade changed in my life.

I always keep a good slathering of Rain-X on the windshield, though…

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090/5 "2007-03-16T04:26:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Della]  
It could be worse. My car’s wiper blades are a non-standard size and one replacement blade costs $38.

The other one costs $37.

It hurts on a very fundamental level.  
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I made the mistake of replacing the wiper cartride on Toyota. Primarily because it was really easy to replace (didn’t know that Toyota Service would put in the blades for you, no charge), and they were pretty cheap.

However they have doubled in price every year since and they do not make replacement _blades_ for the replacement _cartridge_. Meaning I now _have_ to by replacement cartridges when the blades go bad, which is every friggen year. Irony.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-per-wiper-blade/396090/6 "2007-03-16T13:41:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Della]  
It could be worse. My car’s wiper blades are a non-standard size and one replacement blade costs $38.

The other one costs $37.

It hurts on a very fundamental level.  
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Yeah, it would pain me that the amounts are different too. 😉 What kind of car is it, if you don’t mind saying?