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or exploring Alpine Glaciers. Even if you’re just using your Four by Four to pull a horsebox to a local county show, you’ll need some good mud-plugging tyres if you’re not going to suffer the humiliation of needing to be towed out by a tractor.

It’s weird how almost everyone can and does understand that fact, but they don’t think in the same terms about an equally critical safety part of their car, the Windscreen Wipers

Classic Windscreen Wipers are made with a natural or synthetic rubber blade. The working temperature range of these rubbers is pushed to its limit even in weather which we regularly see in many areas of Europe. For example, rubber stiffens as temperatures fall below online freezing, and in Scandinavian and Alpine winters the rubber hardens so much that it cracks; rendering the wiperblade useless.

Furthermore a rubber wiperblade’s life is severely shortened by the effects of Ozone and Ultra Violet Light. These degrade the rubber’s structure and surface, causing a further loss in performance, and lessening the wiperblade’s ability to throw off water. This then aggravates its low temperature performance problems, because it allows water to stay on or even penetrate the wiperblade’s surface, so when it freezes, the rubber blade’s structure is further attacked and the wiperblade is often frozen to the windscreen.

At the opposite end of the temperature range; think about how hot the surface of your car can get in even a British summer, then imagine how much hotter it will get in tropical or even Mediterranean climates. Even in England, lots of us have experienced Windscreen Wipers softening and then sticking to the windscreen in hot weather. Imagine what will happen in even moderately hot places.

Lastly, consider the difficult driving conditions you’ve bought your Four by Four for. Throwing up mud, stones, dirt, grit, sand and other abrasive debris. All these abrasive things will of course limit the life of any wiperblade that’s having to wipe them off.

Even the very best rubber Windscreen Wipers, even when shielded from all the hazards of the climate still only have a design life of about 500,000 cycles, and of course this is seriously shrunk both by those weather influences and by being subjected to the abrasive particles that are part of Four by Four life.

The good news is that Silicone Windscreen Wipers provide solutions to all these problems. With an operating temperature range of -60°C to +200°C, these truly are the Best Windscreen Wipers for extreme conditions. In fact, they’ll still be operating long after you and your Four by Four have given up the ghost. Additionally, they aren’t attacked by Ozone or Ultra Violet light, and because they have much better wear resistance, they have an expected life million cycles in normal use, and are lots better at withstanding the abrasive effects of Four by Four adventure conditions.

So if you’re looking for proper High Performance Windscreen Wipers to equal the abilities of your Four by Four, don’t just look for a quite meaningless “Performance” Label. To get the Best Windscreen Wipers for all the extremes you can put your car through, make sure they have 100% Silicone blades, and beware of those crafty beggars who sneakily put a silicone coating on rubber Wiper Blades!

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