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Last year my stock wiper blades started streaking so I replaced them with the crappy tire 'teflon' blades. They were OK for a few weeks and then they started to make this annoying gripping chatter sound, (almost as bad as scratching nails on a chalkboard :angry: .) Even with liberal use of RainX and using speed 6 on the variable speed intermittent wiper switch it was annoying as hell.

A few weeks ago Canadian Tire began show an ad (with geeko smarty pants pitchman) for the new 'REFLEX' wiper blade, the one that looks like it is just a refill with no hinged support mechanism. I said to myself, what the heck, and gave it a try.

Boy, what a difference! :) They are quiet, and they don't have those hinges where snow and ice can freeze them up and not provide a full clean sweep. They look kind of odd with no hinged mechanism but they work.