I will be installing these on my Suburban this winter. We get a lot of slush thrown up by the big trucks on the two lane highways around here. The blades come with end protectors that you remove once they are installed. Here are some pics. Will report back.
Give us feedback after some use please. Way back I used to use the Anco Winter Blades which had rubber covering the metal skeleton frame. They worked well for snow/ice but at speed in rain lifted off the window lika a sail.
I switched to Bosch Icon and have not had any issues since. The Icon is also a beam blade like the Trico. Some online say the Bosch still gives better overall performance even in winter snow/ice.
Got the windshield wipers installed. As usual there were 9 different designs of factory arms and there were three different attachments to made the blades fit your vehicle.
these have been my "go to" wipers for year 'round use since about 2015 on all cars I own and take care of...I've not had any issues with them on any of those vehicles until very recently and that may have been an issue with the windshield (in need of a deep clean) as contact with the passenger side glass hasn't been perfect on the last 2 pair I have bought...
the cost (I buy mine through Rock Auto) has about doubled since I started recommending them but I still think they are a good bang for the buck in ChicagoLand weather...I generally get close to 2 years on them but add that those cars all do 10K or less miles a year...
I have bought a lot of these for many cars in the last 10+ years...
Got the windshield wipers installed. As usual there were 9 different designs of factory arms and there were three different attachments to made the blades fit your vehicle.
How do the clips attach to the blade? Dad used to keep the old set in the trunk just in case. New ones get put on, old got to trunk, trunk goes to garbage. I did the same for a long time until I got tired of them.
Multiple years later during a blizzard one of the front ones snapped on my Sequoia, now what? I needed to drive to parts store but most were closed for snow emergency conditions. I took the rear wiper off the truck and moved it to front. 14" wipe is better than no wipe or arm crashing onto the glass etc.
I don't recall the brand but the mounting was actually on the side of the blade not on top/middle. Bad design and plastic. Once the edge of wiper hot some snow/ice the torque just snapped it right off. I replaced all 3 with new ones at store that was open. The workers trekked through the snow, lot had not been plowed and unless you had 4WD and winter tires you were not getting in there. Even that was questionable.
Here is a photo with the instructions. My assembly is the middle one. The top two diagrams are clear enough. Just pinch the connector that was on the blade and throw it out. The fourth pic is where it gets interesting. There is an assembly labeled BC that is actually two assemblies. It’s so closely molded that it looks like one assembly. The fifth drawing means separate C from B and throw it away. Then you tuck B into the wiper blade and click it into place. Clear as mud. Some guy with a Nuclear Engineering degree designed it. Everything is plastic but it seems to work.
Tried them out in the rain. All good except I lost a 1/2 inch of window swiping because the beam type wiper can’t follow the curvature of the window to the last 1/2 inch of the wiper length.
