You’ve no doubt noticed how many Car Wiper Blades are at their least effective exactly you need them: on those freezing dark winter mornings. We’ve all struggled with Car Wiper Blades that have turned rigid with the cold, so they can’t flex to the shape of the windscreen, and the result is that they only clear 1 or two patches on your screen, leaving you with drastically reduced vision, just where you most need an unimpaired view.

Even worse, on those extremely freezing mornings, especially when you’re in a rush, you forget to make sure that your wipers aren’t frozen to the screen. When you switch on the Car Wiper Blades one of three things happens. Firstly, if your very fortunate, you’ll hear a crack as the wiperblade tears. If you’re not quite so fortunate, there’ll be a deeper clunk as the Wiperblade Transmission Mechanism snaps, followed by a whining noise as the wiper motor races away without any load on it. If you’re thoroughly unlucky, you hear almost nothing because your Wiper Motor will just overheat & burn out, leaving you immobilized and facing a heavy bill to get back on the road.

There are a couple of less dramatic, but equally costly consequences of using standard Car Wiper Blades in arctic winter conditions:-

Firstly, You’ll need to use a Winter Screen Wash in order to prevent the Washer System from icing up. Unfortunately this invariably contains industrial alcohol blends which attack & destroy the rubber in normal Car Wiper Blades.

Secondly, especially on cheaply made normal type Car Wiper Blades, the many joints in the metal frame shrink and tighten as the temperatures drop. The immediate effect of this is that it further restricts the Car Wiper Blades ability to flex, but there’s also a problem of a build up of long term damage, because, as the wiper blade is forced to flex whilst the joints are very tight, the two parts of the joint are ground into each other, and a lot of wear ensues. The result of this is obvious as soon as temperatures rise, the joints expand and become loose. This leads to vibration, noise and juddering. The knock-on effect of this is to cause the joints to wear even more, and as the joints become looser, they chatter and wear even when it’s relatively warm, so once the wear sets in, it rapidly accelerates until the Car Wiper Blades become unusable.

Bearing all those problems in mind, a true winter wiper blade needs to have a blade which remains flexible beyond the temperatures experienced in a harsh winter. Only Silicone Wiper Blade remain flexible down to -60°C. What’s more, ice can’t stick to Silicone Wiper Blade. If you’ve ever used a silicone Ice Cube Tray, you’ll remember how flexible it is as it comes out of the freezer, and how easily the ice cubes just slip out of their moulds.

A silicone blade defeats many of the problems relating to tearing & flexibility, but only when you combine Silicone Blades with a Flat Wiper Blades technology, do you truly defeat all the problems caused by wide temperature variations

So, you could say Silicone Wiper Blades are great Winter Wiper Blades, which they undoubtedly are , but they’re much more than that, because unlike rubber, Silicone Wiper Blade are resistant to heat up to 200°C, and completely impervious to Ultra Violet, Ozone, Solvents and Pollution. Perhaps it would be it would be more accurate to call them Extreme Wiper Blades, because they’re as happy in the desert heat as in the arctic cold.