Scrappin NC

Last winter saw some of the worst weather that we have seen for many years, for a period of a few weeks where the temperatures in many places never got above freezing. Although these three weekswere over the Christmas period and the government told people not to make any unnecessary driving, a lot of people had to work, and see friends, and also make sure they had all the gifts and food for festivities. For a lots of this period the main roads were kept clear by frequent gritting and clearing by snow ploughs, which then meant people could go on journeys safely as long as they were careful.

I was one of the people who had to travel by vehicle a frequent basis, as I live about 15 miles away from where I work, and as I worked for a supermarket it was vital that I turned up to work at this busiest time of year. The first day’s trip took me an extra hour and 30 minutes to get to work, and I mainly manage to do it in only 20 minutes. The first day was so bad because I had to stop and help dig out multiple people who had got stopped by the snow and were blocking the roads. Thankfully for them, I live in a hilly part of the country and had put a snow scoop in the boot of my vehicle along with some willies and some warm clothing. I had done this mainly because I did not leave work until 10 PM and I knew that if snowed more in the evening it would not get cleared, and this would make it very difficult to get up the hill to my house.

After several days or so of this I noticed that my wiper blades had started to split and I kept finding that the ice was collecting on the wiper blade frames overnight. This meant that in the morning I had to break the ice from the frames so that the wiper blades could follow the contours of the wind shield, which got frustrating some after a while. At least the nightly covering of snow could be easily brushed off and the remaining ice could be cleared with de-icer and a quick wipe of the wind shield wipers if they had not frozen up. As the stores were not yet shut for Christmas, I decided to pop round the vehicle maintenance shop and get some replacement wiper blades before work. When I got there it looked like I was not the only person who had had their wiper blade problems as there were a lot of empty spaces on the replacement wiper blades stand. I looked at the size of the wiper blades that I needed and then checked the stand and there were none left in the cheaper part of the stand, so I looked in the more costly part and there were a couple of replacement wiper blades in that stand which were the right size. They were flat wiper blades created from silicone, they were expensive but they could operate in temperatures as low as -60 BC and were resistant to UV radiation, ozone, salt and came with a one-year guarantee. I thought I would give these flat wiper blades made from silicone a try as the flat wiper blades have a frameless design, so I would not have the problem of the frames icing and not following the contours of the wind shield. I fitted the flat wiper blades to my vehicle in the car park and set off to work and I instantly noticed the difference, as they were clearing the snow on the wind shield extremely effectively. I’m still using these wiper blades eight months later and they are still clearing my wind shield extremely effectively.

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