Juddery wiper blades

[rodders]

Bought a second hand car and as always the blades juddered.
So I bought some bosch aero blades, clayed the screen, used an alcohol wipe I had from some previous blades and thought that will do.
Nope, the new blades judder.
I've since washed the car and the shampoo has some wax in it, I thought that would make it slippery, nope, still judder.
Any tips to stop this?

 

[Raymond Lin]

Polish the glass, don't put wax on it.

 

[Hyburnate]

Seems quite weird, as above I'd try some polish but I'd have thought that the clay would have removed anything that could be causing it.

 

[rodders]

Forgot to say I did use 't cut' glass polish after claying it.
I can do it all again, see what happens.
Not sure how I'll keep the shampoo off the screen

 

[Raymond Lin]

Forgot to say I did use 't cut' glass polish after claying it.
I can do it all again, see what happens.
Not sure how I'll keep the shampoo off the screen

Polish the glass, perhaps use a glass cleaner or alcohol wipes to take off the polish, try the blades.

Be side to remove all the wax from the rubber on the blades too.

 

[adolf hamster]

Just seems to be an increasingly common thing with either newer cars or newer wiper blades.

My old mazda 323f circa 1999 was rarely washed, never clayed nor polished, yet with the cheapest of halfrauds wipers would be a quiet streak free wipe.

The skoda was hopeless, nothing could stop it.

The bm is mostly judder free but not streak free, with bosch aeroblades.

The only thing i've ever found is just using plain water as screenwash can help, some soap mixes make the screen too clean and it judders.

 

[Hyburnate]

16 plate Leon + aerotwins + sonax extreme screenwash = No judder for me?

 

[sovietspybob]

Could be the wiper arms have been bashed slightly out of shape, i've seen that on some cars. Not quite sure what the easiest solution to that is though!

 

[Raymond Lin]

I can't say I have any judder on my C30 either, Bosch blades, even use RainX on it.

 

[Philtor]

This sounds very similar to what was happening to a friends Punto a while back and this guide fixed it. Different Car I'm sure but worth checking as it will be the same idea.

 

[Dis86]

I had judder on the old BMW. It was from whatever crap the garage had sprayed on the windows before they sold it to me. As it was wearing off it judder education like mad and gradually faded. No amount of washing seemed to help though.

 

[acake]

Go get some bar keepers freind from your local supermarket and polish it with that to get some bar keepers freind from your local supermarket and polish it with that should sort the issue out

 

[rodders]

Have some bar keepers under the sink!

Thanks for the other into, just about to read the link above too.

 

[almoststew1990]

When mine would judder it was the pivoting / movement mechanism at the very base of the wipers that was wobbling rather than just rotating. Might be worth a look?

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

Twist the wiper arm slightly, I tweak mine so the blade remains perpendicular to the glass in both direction and that seems to cure the judder.

 

[robj20]

Put some sealant on the windscreen. Using bouncers drop and roll myself get about 3 months per application on windscreen or 1 year for side windows. Dont need the wipers at all above about 60mph and when i do there much smoother.

 

[adam cool dude]

My girlfriend's only judders above 60mph. At slow speeds it is fine.

 

[rodders]

Cheers guys, will give it all a bash over the weekend.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Dont forget to clean the blades themselves, if theyre gunked up with cack

 

[Skilid]

I remember the Fiat Punto used to judder because it had cheap plastic linkages. At one point you were actually able to by a metal replacement and fit.