Rain-X Weatherbeater Windshield Wiper Blade - Frame Style - 18" - Qty 1

Video Transcript for Rain-X Weatherbeater Wiper Blades Installation - 2012 Mazda 6

Hi there. Mazda owners. Here your 2012 Mazda 6, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install rain-x's weather beater wiper blades. And while these wiper blades from rain-x they're gonna operate just fine. Everything seems very good here. But in my personal experience with these bladed style ones that have pressure points on them, over time, I found that they tend to chatter.

We'll see how these rain-x, live up to the test here. I've lived here. I used them for a while, but that's just something I've noticed of that particular style of blade. Rain-x does offer the beam style here. And with this, it's very flexible and it just seems to give a more natural curve to your windshield.

And I've noticed that these just tend to chatter a lot less, and if they do have it on maybe a little dry spot when it's just kind of mist it out there. That's when I noticed it more on those styles, particularly, but when it gets dry, it's not uncommon to have a little bit of a chatter as it's hitting a dry spot on your windshield. With these, if they do happen to hit that, we get a little bit of a chatter, it's significantly less noisy than what these blade style ones are. So this is going to give you a very similar performance as these, but I like it even better just because it gives a little bit better contact to the windshield. It's a little bit quieter.

I just find these tend to last a little bit longer, and I liked the locking mechanism here. If you put it on and you check it to make sure that it's secure, usually there's never an issue with it coming loose, but that extra lock tab, there's just a little bit of a, kind of a good warm feelings that I know that it's in place. Wiper blades are one of those things that you don't realize you need to replace it until you're in that situation where you're having a hard time seeing in an inclement weather. And you just got all these streaks and you're like, man, this is just really making things difficult for me to drive at night or just in any kind of inclement weather. So, if you've got any kind of streaks or anything like that, or if you're coming up on a safety inspection, a lot of states require a safety inspection and wiper blades are actually one of the things that'll fail on your inspection.

The inspector will check your blade and make sure that it's not torn all the way across. And it's pretty typical for an older wiper blade to tear here at the edge. So you can check that yourself by just running your finger along the edge, just like that. not pushing hard, just gently and see if that tears away, again I'm not pushing hard. You don't want to try to tear it away. Just want to see if it moves, if it's nice and secure. And there's a good chance that those blades are going to pass an inspection, but they may still streaks. You always want to check that operation. If we take a look at the blade a little closer, here on our wiper, we can see it's the same on each side. You'll get that same nice, streak free wipe in both motions, whether it's going this way on the windshield or back down to the resting position. The blade is made of a rubberized material that is resistant against UV rays. So, it's nice that this is something that sits out here in the sun for many hours, especially if you're at work, I'd say eight hours a day. It's sitting outside getting the sun beating on it. So, it's nice that they've put the proper protections inside of it. So you do get a good nice long service out of this blade before it does wear out. And these micro blades are designed to just snap into your traditional wiper arm. But there is an adapter that comes included with it. That gives you a couple of different positions and options for various manufacturer wiper arm styles that is out there. Now I will say this doesn't work with every single vehicle. I have had a couple of vehicles that do have a specialty style adapter that these aren't going to work with. But the majority of vehicles out there, I'd say probably greater than 90%, you're going to be covered with this adapter or the traditional style that's made into the blade. So, let me cover some of the features of our wiper blades. Why don't we take a look at how to get them installed The first thing I want to do in replacing your wiper blades is determine the appropriate size. We do have a fit guide here at etrailer, so you can just plug your vehicle into our fit guide, and that should bring up the appropriate size wipers for your vehicle. But if it doesn't or if you just want to measure yourself, so you know that we're going to give you, you getting the perfect part. You'll just measure the length of each wiper blade. It's not uncommon for them to be different. Some vehicles are the same size, for both driver and passenger side blades, but many are different sizes. The vehicle here this Mazda 6, does have two different sizes. So we've got a 24 inch to replace our driver's side blade and an 18 inch to replace the passenger side. The wiper arms, do attach the wiper blade a little bit different depending on your particular vehicle. On the Mazda here though, it's a fairly standard style. If it's a traditional, just a regular wiper blade. Usually there's just a tab here at the back that you'll have to press on. You can see the tab right here and you'll just press on that tab. And then you'll slide it down the shaft to release it, on this particular blade we've got installed on here. It's got a lock tab on it. So you just check to see if you do, you can tell if it's got a lock tab, because normally if you just press this and slide it back, there'll be an open cavity here to allow it to slide back to release it. But this one, you can see this lock tab prevents it from sliding back. We'll just take our screwdriver and just pop that tab up like that. After you release your lock tab, press in on that release tab here at the back, and then slide your wiper blade down the shaft. Once it slides down so far, you'll be able to pull the blade off to remove it. After you remove your blade, gently set it down against the windshield because it's spring loaded here. So you don't want to leave it up, right Like this, the wind or something hits this that spring would, boom, and it'll bring this down. It'll smack and you'll more than likely damage your windshield. So we want to make sure we set that back down. So that way it's in place there where it's nice and safe, we'll then get our new blades out. We're gonna get those installed. So here we got our new wiper blade out of the box. You can see it's this kind of a traditional style wiper blade from rain-x. It has a traditional attachment. There's no lock on this one. So this is a fairly standard wiper arm here. This is kind of an economical one, but being from rain-x, they put a little bit of engineering into it to give you a little bit better performance than just your regular wiper blades off the shelf there. Compared to your traditional arms, these usually have a little bit more contact points. So you can see each point here where it contacts to put force on the windshield to help it contour properly to your windshield. And there's an anti-friction bar inside that helps it glide smoothly across your windshield. But other than that, it is kind of a fairly standard wiper blade. So let's go ahead and get it installed here. This is where it slides into place. The rounded edge there is going to be the rounded edge that goes inside of the arm here. So we're just going to take this, lift it up, take our wiper. We're going to push that through the opening and then just slide the wiper down the shaft until it clicks into place. After it clicks in, I always like to take it, just kind of give it a little rock, back and forth because the last thing you want is your wiper arm to slide down when you're in a inclement weather. So just want to make sure it is clicked in all the way that all looks good. We're just going to gently set that back down and we're going to repeat the same process for the other arm, again that might be the same size, or it might be a different size. So we've got them installed. Let's try them out and see how they work. And that looks pretty good. We've got a nice, streak free, swipe across the entire windshield. I don't really see any streaks. It looks like it did a really good job, and that completes our installation of rain-x's weather beater, wiper blades on our 2012 Mazda 6..