Video Transcript for Set up: Scrubblade Platinum Windshield Wiper Blade on a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

How's it going, everyone It's Ethan here at etrailer. Today we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install these Scrubblade platinum windshield wipers on our 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. All right, we're out right now. It's actually raining pretty good where we are. Not enough for the wiper blades to be running at full speed but enough where they're actually gonna be needed. As you can see, it does a pretty decent job clearing most of the water away.

Towards the bottoms of the blades, it does look like it might be streaking just a little bit. Can't tell if that's the windshield itself or the blades, but overall, they're doing a fine job. These are replacement wiper blades. They're all weather, so they're suitable for rain, sleet, and snow. They come with a dual blade build.

This outer blade here is for larger debris, bugs, and road debris like that. The inner blade is going to clean up the rest of the smaller debris as well as the rain or snow. The inner blades themselves are made of a nano-graphite. The outside of the actual blades themselves is just a durable rubber housing that's gonna protect the blades. It's gonna be low profile blades as well, so that's gonna help prevent it from lifting up in the wind.

Overall, these blades were relatively straightforward to install, once we figured out the adapters that we needed 'cause we did need two separate pieces to get them on, but you can check out how we did that now. To install our new blades, we first have to remove the old blades. We've gone ahead and removed the other one but we'll remove this one just to show you how it works. Pretty simple. You have to push this button down and as you can see, that releases the rest of the blade.

You might have to get a tool to push the button down. So let me grab that real quick. So using that tool to push this button further in, it just slides out just like that. Before we put this blade on, we're gonna have to talk about some adapters because we don't have a regular J-hook style. And the first thing we're going to need is this wing adapter here. That's the part that's actually going to be slipping into the blade holder. And we need this base plate that we're going to replace this with. These other three, we just wanted to show they we're also included, but we don't need those. First thing we need to do is to remove the part that's already in the blades. As you can see, it's held at the bottom here. If you pinch these together, you can pull that right out. We'll replace that with the base plate that we mentioned before. You do have to use a little bit of force to get it in there so don't be afraid. It'll snap into place, you'll hear it, just like that. And we can also put this wing part, this adapter, on the top as well. Again, it does take a little bit of force, so don't be afraid of that either and you'll hear that snap into place as well. So one thing I need to mention is that we do have a towel put down here because this is metal. If we leave it open, it's spring loaded. So if it does spring back, it could damage your windshield. So before we put this on, I want to show you that these wings actually do fit back into the adapter itself. So you close those up and it's pretty straightforward once you figure out all the adapters, you just slide it in. Might have to come in at a bit of an angle but you should hear it snap into place and then you're on. Now we can get our towel out of there, fold it down gently, repeat the same thing on the passenger side as well. In our case, we didn't show it, but they're the exact same, so it's the same exact process. Overall, I think these wiper blades do just a fine job. I think as far as replacement blades go, there's not really anything better or worse that I would be looking for. They seem like they'd be durable enough. It's nice that they do come with those adapters, so depending on the actual windshield wiper style that you have, it'll probably work for you. That was a look at the Scrubblade platinum windshield wipers and how to install them on our 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500.