Help -with wiper blades

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altimayankee
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Has anyone ever gotten the ANCO wiper blades for their coupe. Changing wiper blades has always been easy but this fkr has been a pain in the rear. The passenger side went on no problem. But the driver side will not go on no matter what I do. Anyone else have this problem? I think I may have gotten a defective part.


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Viperjunkie
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I havent had any problems installing mine. I got the Bosch Icon wipers. I love them

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altimayankee
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Well me and the girl at the store figured out the bracket that fits on to the arm just doesnt work. its too fat. so we actually had to take that part from the bosch blades haha. well, we got it work thats all that matters. and the girl was cute as hell and she slipped me her number, so thats a plus. hahhaa

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Bretahn J.
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Viperjunkie wrote:I havent had any problems installing mine. I got the Bosch Icon wipers. I love them
Yeah, Bosch Icons are the best. No problems so far.

shortys408
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i cracked my windshield installing mine.

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altimayankee
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shortys408 wrote:i cracked my windshield installing mine.
holy crap howd you manage that

shortys408
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blade was off and the wiper snapped down onto the windshield. It was bare metal.

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shortys408 wrote:blade was off and the wiper snapped down onto the windshield. It was bare metal.
Yep...always lay a thick towel over the glass AND in between removing and re-installing (because you have to take your hands off the arm), gently lower the arm against the windshield (back to the operational position). Yeah, you have to bring it back up when you're ready, but it protects from accidents like this.

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Bmore-coupe
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shortys408 wrote:blade was off and the wiper snapped down onto the windshield. It was bare metal.
Ive done that to some of my old cars.
Wipers123 wrote:
Yep...always lay a thick towel over the glass AND in between removing and re-installing (because you have to take your hands off the arm), gently lower the arm against the windshield (back to the operational position). Yeah, you have to bring it back up when you're ready, but it protects from accidents like this.
I do this now

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PHENOMenalVinyl
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shortys408 wrote:i cracked my windshield installing mine.
hahaha wen i was changin mine my dad was like NEVER let go lol im like come on im not that retarted i mean how could someone do this lmao

guess its possible lol

shortys408
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actually my room mate did it, lol. free windshields in FL FTW!

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Rob.Vegan
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I was "washing" my window at the gas station once. And I made a motion as if I was hitting my passenger with the squeegee thing, and accidently hit my windshield ...HARD I got so scared but luckily, no damage

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Hussain
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ok so this is my first car and we dont get much rain and no snow here so ive never changed a windshield wiper.... are there any specific ones for our cars or is it sort of a "one size fits all" thing?

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Rob.Vegan
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There's a certain length to the wipers.

I'm not sure what size ours are though

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Hussain
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right after i posted that, i went up the street to walmart and i was like lol i was standing in an ile full of different size windshield wiper blades.... i was hoping it was something i could just pick up and install real quick but i dont even know what size... its supposed to snow tomorrow.... in SACRAMENTO!!! it snowed a tiny bit about 5 years ago and before that it didnt snow since like 1940 lol so much for global warming...


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