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Visibility Maintenance Tips

Check your wipers to ensure the best driving vision

Inspect your wipers once a month.
Have a professional look at them whenever you bring your vehicle in for maintenance or a repair.
Change your wiper blades every six months.
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Tips on keeping your windshield clean

Clean rubber element every time you fill your gas tank. Remove loose dirt and road grime from the windshield.
When hand washing your car, use a small amount of non-abrasive glass cleaner on a wet sponge to clean both the windshield and the rubber wiping elements.
Always use an ice scraper to remove snow and ice. Using your wipers to de-ice your windshield can damage the blade as well as the entire arm and wiper motor.

90% of all driving decisions are based on visual cues

The American Optometric Association reports that 90% of all driving decisions are based solely on visual cues. That means having the best wipers is essential for safe driving vision. TRICO has engineered key technological advances into each wiper line to ensure each product performs better, lasts longer, installs easier and fits more vehicles than any other wiper manufacturer. TRICO wipers truly do enhance driver visibility.

Chips and cracks

Never let a chip or crack go unfixed. What looks like a small nick can lead to the entire windshield breaking, which can not only be more expensive to fix, but extremely dangerous if you’re driving when it shatters. Damaged glass can also cut the rubber wiping element of your wiper blades, causing streaking and poor visibility. Fixing chips and cracks immediately is fast and easy and usually covered by your car insurance.

Check headlights

Make sure all your lights – headlights, brake lights and signals – are working properly. Doing this on a weekly basis ensures that you’ll have the best driving visibility at night, and will keep you from getting an expensive ticket.

Signs that you need new windshield wipers

Deteriorated wipers produce an uneven wipe, which prevents proper contact with the windshield surface. This will create unwiped or streaky areas, severely impairing your driving vision.

If any of the conditions below describe your wipers, replace them today with new TRICO^® blades:

Streaking

Caused by dry rubber that has hardened and cracked. Streaking can also be caused by tree sap, road tar and other foreign substances on the blade rubber.

Chattering

Caused by the “permanent set” or “curve” in the rubber that some wiper blades develop while they are not being used. This condition is characterized by the chattering sound the blade makes as it passes across the windshield.