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Originally Posted by Johnfin
You are right, the blades are crazy money. Trico and Aanco determined that they were not making money off refills so they started to charge $30 for the whole blade so that we can start filling up the landfills. I buy my refills from China at $2 ea and they work just fine. You can find them on ebay but you need to know the exact wiper claw dimensions.
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The "beam blade" design on modern vehicles isn't really set up to use a refill. The whole blade is one piece so that wind pressure against the blade holds it tight to the windshield even at higher speeds like on the highway. There are some blade systems out there that use a more traditional setup where you can replace the inserts and they have a "wind deflector" mounted along a portion of the blade only. This generally only works on vehicles with smaller windshields.
Refills worked great when the blades maxed out at 18" long... Today's vehicles regularly use 22" or even 24" blades on at least one side.