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Flat wiper blades are currently well accepted as the an indepensible accessory to complete any car customising assignment. Of course, just as many vehicle owners buy them for their modern looks as for their aerodynamic attributes.

In the beginning Flat wiper blades were only available as original equipment on more expensive cars. This meant that if you weren’t privileged enough to buy a new car with Flat wiper blades as original equipment, then there was little short of a big engineering project that you could do to modernise your car to the new flat wiper blade look.

There was then, and still is now, a bit of a sting in the tail for those vehicle owners privileged enough to buy a car with Original Fit Flatblade Wipers. Because the connectors are patented, there’s very little or no competition at all when it comes to fitting replacements. Therefore, the prices can be exorbitant to put it mildly.

Recently, however, many manufacturers have brought out Retrofit Flat wiper blades. These fit just about any car made in the last 30 years, except sadly, those cars fitted with Flat wiper blades as Original equipment. For those unfortunate owners, sky high prices remain the rule for the present time.

In addition to their looks and aerodynamic advantages, Flat wiper blades have another great advantage over Traditional Car wiper blades. That is that they are designed and constructed to be one-piece. Traditional Car wiper blades have a multi section metal frame, and all the sections are joined together by joints with pins or rivets. This is the weakest point of quality Traditional Windscreen wipers.

During hot weather the joints expand and loosen, so allowing the rivet or pin to move and chatter inside the joint. In the immediate term this causes the Windscreen wipers to chatter and judder and wipe unevenly. In the medium to long term, the effect of the rivet or pin rattling around in the joint is to cause wear, so that, when the joint cools down, it is still loose and chattering, and so the wear accelerates until in the end the wiper blade is chattering at all temperatures and needs to be replaced.

At the opposite extreme, very cold temperatures make the joints shrink and tighten. This makes the wiper blade frame stiffen, so it can’t flex to follow the windscreen curve, and in the longer term causes the metal parts to grind into each other and wear each other down. This time the wear only becomes apparent when the wiper blade warms up somewhat, when the symptoms are just the same as those created by chattering in hot weather.

The One Piece layout of Flat wiper blades doesn’t just look hot, it means that they don’t suffer from any of these problems, so they are ideal for use even in extreme temperatures.