Video Transcript for Mount: Scrubblade Platinum Windshield Wiper Blade on a 2020 Ford Escape

Welcome to etrailer.com. Today we're taking a look at the Scrubblade Platinum hybrid style windshield wiper blades for the 2020 Ford Escape. These are gonna come in a kit with a 20 inch blade and a 24 inch blade. Let's get them installed. The big point for the Scrubblades is that you're gonna get the two blade design here, so you have the first edge to clear things out of the way and the second edge to really clean things up. This is gonna shine mostly in, like, an off-roading situation, if you drive down gravel roads on the way out of your neighborhood or your house.

And they're not necessarily the best for commuter style driving, when you're on a normal road, not a lot of bugs, not a lot of dirt. These tend to make more noise when they're wiping across the windshield and that's more forgivable in situations where you do have more debris, where you need the second blade, but for most day to day use I would highly recommend checking out a single blade style windshield wiper blade. The Scrubblade does a good job of providing adapters for whatever style connections you have for the wiper arms on your vehicle. Using these tabs down here, you pinch those and you can pull out the central component. So you can switch between a J Hook adapter or this one here, which slides into this cowling.

And line this up, push it down until it clicks. There we go, nice and secure. I had a blanket down here today, so that way if the arm did snap back while I was installing this it's not gonna crack the windshield. But, carefully lowering this down. Now we can take a comparison between the old wiper blade and the new one we just installed.

Now, the Scrubblade is on the passenger side and the old wiper blade is on the driver's side right in front of me. So, activating the wipers here, you can see that the old blade is leaving a lot of streaks right there with buildup. Whereas, the Scrubblade is actually clearing everything out of the way. And now you can see that the windshield was fairly dirty before we started this and the Scrubblade has actually pushed more of the debris that was on the windshield out of the way, than this other one right here in front of me. After doing that little test, I'm honestly a little happier with the Scrubblade's performance than I thought I was gonna be.

And that dual blade design did actually come in handy clearing off some of the caked on debris. Now you can see there's a crack here in the windshield, and wiper blades are something that you want to change out seasonally, but if you do have a damaged windshield and you get it replaced, I highly recommend also taking that opportunity to switch out your wiper blades as well. Just because any nicks, cracks, scratches in the glass can damage the blades of your wiper and then cause more unnecessary noise, debris, or just skipping to happen on the wiper blade. Now this is a hybrid style blade, so it's gonna have this protective outer coating over a frame style construction underneath and that's gonna give you multiple points of contact along the edge of the blade, so that way you get a nice smooth swipe across the windshield. And this outer covering is really nice to have for instances, in the winter time when ice and snow might cake up in there. Having that protection so it can't kick up in there, means that you're not gonna have chunks of ice and snow attached to your wiper blade and scratching all the way across your windshield when you do turn them on. And that was a look at the Scrubblade Platinum hybrid style windshield wiper blades here on the 2020 Ford Escape..