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Reminder to Self:
When replacing your car's windshield wipers, and when the old ones are being persnickety and not coming out, you do *not* need to climb up onto the car's hood in order to get a better grasp of them. You can simply press the little metal part in the middle of each wiper blade which detaches the whole thing. Then, with the freed wiper blade in your clutches, you can fight with it somewhere else, without worrying about denting your hood with your bodily weight.
Note to self on terminology:
The wiper "arm" is the part that goes back and forth.
The "blade" is the part that holds the long rubber wiper.
The parts that need to be replaced periodically are called the "wipers" or "wiper refills".
Another note to self:
Do not ask your significant other to buy you new wiper refills on his way home just because you don't want the trouble of putting the dog on the chain and opening the gate and driving out and closing the gate and taking the dog off the chain and driving to the store and then doing it all again in the reverse. Instead of just getting you the refills like you want, he'll insist on getting whole new blades, *even* when you are clear with him on the terminology.
Oh, and by the way:
A single make and model of car may need different sizes of wiper refills, depending on what kind of wiper blades it has. The length is likely to be the same, but the width may differ. Narrow blades need narrow refills, but narrow refills won't work with regular-width blades.
When replacing your car's windshield wipers, and when the old ones are being persnickety and not coming out, you do *not* need to climb up onto the car's hood in order to get a better grasp of them. You can simply press the little metal part in the middle of each wiper blade which detaches the whole thing. Then, with the freed wiper blade in your clutches, you can fight with it somewhere else, without worrying about denting your hood with your bodily weight.
Note to self on terminology:
The wiper "arm" is the part that goes back and forth.
The "blade" is the part that holds the long rubber wiper.
The parts that need to be replaced periodically are called the "wipers" or "wiper refills".
Another note to self:
Do not ask your significant other to buy you new wiper refills on his way home just because you don't want the trouble of putting the dog on the chain and opening the gate and driving out and closing the gate and taking the dog off the chain and driving to the store and then doing it all again in the reverse. Instead of just getting you the refills like you want, he'll insist on getting whole new blades, *even* when you are clear with him on the terminology.
Oh, and by the way:
A single make and model of car may need different sizes of wiper refills, depending on what kind of wiper blades it has. The length is likely to be the same, but the width may differ. Narrow blades need narrow refills, but narrow refills won't work with regular-width blades.