Piaa 94060 Silicone Wiper Blade Refill, 24"" (Pack of 1)", black

PIAA Silicone Wipers are the only wipers I use now. As long as you know how to use them properly, they are awesome. Here is how they work: Every time you use your wipers, it will deposit a little bit of silicone in any little cracks or pits in your windshield. You cannot usually see all the little cracks and dents in your windshield but they are there, all over the place. Then the water gets on your windshield and beads up because it doesn't like the silicone. It doesn't smear all over the place like it used to. I don't use my wipers as much or as often compared to regular wiper blades. Also, the blades can recondition an old pitted windshield by filling in pits with silicone. These wiper blades take a little bit of work for them to function correctly. HOW TO GET THEM TO WORK: - Purchase the regular wiper blades first, not the refills. - Follow the installation instructions. Most important is a clean windshield and run them dry for five minutes. - Keep your windshield and wiper blades clean. These blades are designed for water, not all the bugs that you hit. You will have to clean the bugs and their mess off the windshield yourself. Wiper fluid made for bugs helps, but not a whole lot. Dirt and grime may build up on the wiper blades too so check the blades them selves. Usually I'll just need to rub my finger, or the windshield cleaning tool at the gas station along the edge of the wiper blade that is usually in contact with the windshield.

For my 2013 Mazda3 i Touring Hatchback: The 19" (passenger) PIAA refill which is 6mm wide fit fine. The 14" (rear window) PIAA refill which is 6mm wide fit fine although it was tricky getting the refill into the existing blade because of the stops at both ends of the blade to prevent the blade from sliding out. The 24" (driver) PIAA refill which is 8mm wide did not fit as the claws on existing blade were 6mm wide. I'm not sure which if any blades are original. I ended up getting a 24" Rain-X Expert Fit Conventional blade for $8.50 at Wal**** which is 8mm wide and the PIAA 24" refill fit great although it is 1/2" shorter. I don't know the width of the other length Rain-X Expert Fit Conventional blades so you'll want to check. I took a caliper to Wal**** so I could find the right blade to accept the PIAA refill. My advice: Measure your existing blades to determine whether they are 6mm or 8mm wide. Think about which refills will fit if at all considering the 24" and longer refills are 8mm wide while those shorter than 24" are 6mm. You might need to get a new blade whose width fits the PIAA refill width for the length you need. Consider cutting a longer refill to fit and possibly use the metal strips from your old blade in the new refill so you don't have to cut the metal strips.

I love this silicone wiper blade insert. I no longer need to apply Rain-X. It works so great that I rarely use my wipers except to refresh the beading effect or in heavy rains. I've had it for many years, because when there's ice frozen on it or ice frozen to the windshield, I don't pull it or turn it on. If there's freezing rain coming, I lift the blade arm away from the windshield. I scrape ice clear from the windshield where the blade will move. On a brand new vehicle, I'd put on a pair without even waiting for the OEM ones to go bad.

Perfect replacement for already existing PIAA assembly. The previous one lasted 6 years before it started streaking and behaving like regular rubber wiper blades. These are NOT to replace your OEM blades with

Replaced the wipers in my oem wiper blades with these. The drivers side fit pretty well, I ordered 24" 8mm for both sides though because even though the passenger side is a lot shorter than 24 inches it appears to be 8mm in width so I ordered a longer one and cut it since the wipers under 24" come as 6mm- I saw another reviewer said his Honda is the same way. I used the metal supports these came with on the drivers side and drivers side installed nicely without any issue, but used the metal from the old wiper on the passenger side since the metal was pretty strong and I couldn't cut it down with the tools I have (wire cutters, also tried tree branch looper). There are little hooks on the metal and I had to flip the old metal bars around and rebend them for the passenger side a little bit to get them to fit right but not very difficult, I'd actually never changed my own blades before I usually just buy some at an oil change but it was pretty easy, watch a youtube video if you get stuck. Another possible concern about cutting it is there are ridges in both sides of the rubber in the wiper that the metal sticks hook onto for grip, if you cut it short you cut one of those ridges off but despite that the wiper feels snug and secure and I've used it a couple times so far with no problems. Haven't seen a dramatic "rain-x" effect of the water beading yet but maybe I haven't run them enough yet to really coat the windshield well, they do seem to wipe well without streaks and will hopefully last a long time since the cost a premium over regular wipers.

Excellent wipers, have lasted for 5years and still going strong.

First I want to say I never got to use these. I could not get them installed and broke the blade holder trying to install them. This review is meant as a warning to 2007 or later Honda Civic owners that may be interested in using refills instead of the whole blade holder. DON'T. I've installed my share a of refill blades on many different models of vehicles - accept my own. It took me an hour to get one refill almost installed and at the last, I ended up breaking the blade holder. I can not attest the the quality or performance of this product, I am simply trying to warn anyone with a 07 Civic; think twice about what your time and aggravation is worth. I ended up buying Bosch Icon full blade replacements that where installed in under 5 minutes. Good luck to you!

Be mindful when buying the refill as a replacement of an OEM refill despite what Amazon says. The instruction says "Important! Slide... [the refill]...until it locks into the end notch". The lock notch is in a very specific place and it's unlikely it will align correctly with corresponding spot in your blade. In Acura TSX 2012, the notch not even did not align but also was not big enough to lock the refill in place. With nothing holding the refill in place, with time it would slide out. The refill was slightly thinner too but that would be fine it they'd lock in place. Furthermore, it says on the package "For use on PIAA 24-28" wiper blades only". Also, the refill was squeaking during my quick test just like any other refill would. The wiping wasn't any better then a regular quality windshield wiper either - the windshield wasn't magically 100% clear after one wipe. I realized that I had my original OEM wiper blades for over 3.5 years and only now I have to replace the refills. (No I didn't try to prolong their life and I'm usually replacing my blades quite often - the blades simply were working fine). So I'm returning these and buying OEM. At very least I'm guaranteed a correct fit. If in addition they will serve 2-3 years, that's more then enough. I wish I did it right away - it'd save me so much time.

I purchased these refills to replace the oem wipers on a 2010 Subaru Impreza. When I was researching options for replacements, I read in other reviews that people had to re-use the metal strips from their original wipers because the new ones didn't fit. I will confirm that these refills will fit the oem wiper assemply on the 08-11 Impreza's and 08-14 WRX/STi's without any modification. I've had these installed for a few weeks and so far they're working great; no chattering or streaking. I highly recommend buying these refills if you're wiper assemblies are still in tact. Reduces waste from working wipers being discarded and potentially cheaper than buying a brand new wiper assembly.

suit the purpose

If you are looking for the best product for the price, this is it! Amazing quality for what it cost me.

does the job

Purchased this multiple times, working well in Seattle and Delaware. After I moved to Quebec Canada, it will only lasts 2-3 months, because of the low temperature and too much dirt and dust. IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT WIPE THE BLADE (the rubber part), it has a special layer of black coating which helps repel the rain. If you thought that's dirty greasy oil from production and wipe it out, the blade will wear out within a month.