Basic Car Care & Maintenance : How to Replace Windshield Wiper Blades

Replace windshield wiper blades on your car if they've become brittle or aren't wiping correctly; learn how from our expert mechanic in this free car-maintenance video.

Expert: Jeff Wong
Bio: Jeff Wong has a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has owned & operated an aftermarket automotive parts business for five years. He has been working on automobiles for 17 years.
Filmmaker: Joshua Kidwell

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• repair
• cars
• maintenance
• fluids
• tire
• auto
• automotive
• automobile
• vehicle
• trucks

[Swimmy61]

P.S. What did we do before YouTube?

[snusmumriken232]

thumbs if you just changed your wipers or are about to change them

[Jellyfishlips]

Glad I checked the video. I just changed my wipers yesterday but don't recall them "clicking" in place. Think I'll remove and replace them again just to make sure they're secure. Kudos to Jeff for the tips and for being the best looking mechanical engineer that I've ever seen! ; )

[emilywNC]

Thanks for the video, very helpful! I knew I needed to replace mine when the entire blade fell off the car :D how often do I need to wipe down my new ones to keep them in shape?

[gustafrh]

thanks a lot! I have these blades on my VW, but all of the VW videos show much different blades.

[lyndastarwriter]

Thank you. Had it not been for this video, it would have taken me a month of Sundays to figure out such a simple repair.

[CathyOgburn]

Thanks!!

[waterskiaholic]

Thank you! The 'instructions' (if you can call them that) with my replacement blades were awful. I spent at least 10 minutes trying to make sense of them in conjunction with my wipers. I watched your video, and it took me about 10 seconds to do. Thanks so much!

[mattb00th]

everything is fine and dandy up in canada eh.

[subent]

@Swimmy61 Half the jobs are being killed by internet. Here's an idea. Shut down internet and see American economy grow.

[Jeff976cal]

A few other side notes:

- The captions were part of the deal with ExpertVillage, for hearing impaired folks.

- I'm no longer running my own auto business, I'm working full time as a mechanical engineer. Still working on cars & motorcycles for fun.

- I was born and raised in San Jose, CA. I'm not an immigrant. I do think I sound a little funny on the video, it was a long day of filming and we didn't have a script.