Windshield wiper/washer frustration
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Mountain Pass
Joined: Mar 2019
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From: Big Sky Country
Windshield wiper/washer frustration
My 2017 F350 came with what I would call "solid" plastic framed windshield wipers, like some versions of "winter wipers", as opposed to the older metal framed style. Whenever I use the washer motor and wipers, it leaves a puddle of wiper fluid around the left side of the driver's wiper, which then works its way up the windshield as you're driving and makes a mess of your windshield unless you keep intermittently activating the wipers several times over the next couple minutes. Does anyone else experience this? Would a different style wiper help? Has anyone found a fix to this? Something about this aerodynamic design is not right.
Postmaster
Joined: Jan 2019
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What you describe is normal for me too. No matter what I do, if driving at higher speeds, I always have a little splash or residual washer fluid running up the window. I think it’s just a design flaw and I have learned to live with it.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Oct 2017
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From: Lansing MI
The style of beam is not going to help. On the last stroke, the passenger blade goes up, and pushes all the water to the middle of the windshield. The driver side wiper then comes down and collects this (or at least what is not blown off the top, which will depend on vehicle speed). Some water is then trapped under the drivers side blade, and overtime the wind will move it to either the passenger or drivers side of the blade. Happens on every car I have ever seen, except those with wipers that tuck into the cowl (no wind to push the water out), or where the passenger wiper pivots my the A pillar rather than center of the hood.
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