 We're a glance shop, formerly Township Chevrolet, and we're going to stick with our how-to segment. And today we're going to show you guys how to change your own wiper blades. Phil, roll the intro. Okay, so the first one we're going to do is just going to show you a few different makes and models here. So we've got a Ford Focus here that we're selling on the used car lot. We're going to show you how to change the wiper blade on this one. So obviously you want to check your wiper blade for a few different things. So you can either check them on the car or we'll check them off the car at this point just so we'll show you how to do that. If you look here there's a clip and this is the style that this blade is. There's a few different styles. See there's a couple of tabs here, some of them you actually press in. These ones don't, but you can see there's a lock here on the end. So we're going to go ahead and push this lock ahead which allows that to roll ahead and then we slide it back and that's as simple as that to place your wiper blade. One thing you want to be careful of is there's a spring in this blade that keeps it tight to the window and if you're doing this outside or someone bumps into it and that comes down, it's got quite a bit of force and it'll actually crack your windshield, right? So we'll just show you what we got this blade off what you're looking for. So let me take a look on the blade here. This is where the rubber is laying. If you look down the blade, if it's laying off to one side constantly when it's sitting at rest with no weight on it, it's worn out. You want to check to see if there's any rips or tears. You can actually clean these too with a little bit of Windex or Window Cleaner and a rag or paper towel and rub it down because what you'll do is you get like a black residue on it. That'll streak the window. So we're going to say now that we've got the new blade in your hand. We've taken it out. Most blades, the universal ones will come with a few different connectors on them that you can remove on and off. So you'll see this one actually has a number four on it here. So when you look on the back of the packaging and the blade, it'll show you the three or four main styles that this one may fit and you're going to do a measurement on your blade from end to end. So on the guys toolbox, tool benches here, we've got these set up. And if you look here, it's just a tape measure. So you're going to set this blade down and you're going to roll it across. So right now we know we're into roughly a 28 inch blade. So we've got the new blade. We've got the sheathing, usually they come with the sheathing to protect them. We've got the sheathing all off. And what you're going to do is this is the exact opposite of how we took it off. You're going to start these tabs under the little lock there and then you're going to hold that side tight and then you're going to roll this up and you're going to see that clip is going to lock into place. You're going to make sure that's secure and you're going to set that back down there and you're good to go. So that's that wiper blade done. Okay, so right now we're going to work on this Buick Invisiant. It's obviously a newer car. This kind of got a little kind of a combination between the old style blades and the new style blades. One thing you want to be careful of too, some cars when you try to lift this blade up to get at it to work, sometimes it won't clear the hood. So you want to make sure that you're clearing it. Some vehicles you can turn the ignition on and when the wiper blade comes up a little bit, you can turn the key off and it'll stay where it is. Some won't allow you to do it. It keeps coming back to that rest point. So just want to make sure you've got good clearance here when you go to take it off so you don't scratch your hood. So on this style blade here it's got the old kind of hook style but it's a little different on how it's held on. And the way this one operates, you've got this little locking tab here and you're going to get underneath there with your fingernail. You're going to get underneath there with a screwdriver and lift that up and you can see that swings out of the way and that's the lock that holds the blade on. Then you're just going to grab the blade and slide it back and it has enough clearance to get out. And if you look it's got the old style kind of hook on it here, the older style blades but it's a little different kind of blade. So this one here is like a hybrid style blade they call it. So if you look inside it's got the old style hinges and stuff but it's got this covering over top of it. The coverings there to keep the snow and ice and stuff out from building up which causes these hinges not to work correctly so then you get wipers that kind of streak. The only thing you have to watch with the covered wiper blades like this is they tend to catch a lot of wind so on the highway sometimes that wind will actually keep them to lift up but if you look on this blade you'll actually see it's different on one side to the other so what this company has done they've almost put kind of a fan blade effect on this side so the actual wind going across the windshield actually helps hold the window down so it just goes to show you different blade companies, different innovations and if you spend a little more money on blades you get a little better product so this one here if we look straight down this is standing up nice and straight rub my finger along there's no rips or tears the rubber is nice and supple there it's not hard and when the rubber gets hard that's when you get that shatter and going across the window as the wipers jump and it's kind of noisy so this blade looks good everything's good the hinge points are all working all the rubber's in place so this blade doesn't need to be changed so we'll go ahead and reinstall that once we're going to flip that little clip up again we're going to line that back up and just slide that in go straight ahead until it bottoms out and then hit the lock down there that blade's done another easy blade same thing on the other side so what it may be to do now is we'll jump into maybe a little older vehicle it's got the old hook style and we'll take a look at that kind okay so in the Buick arrow showing you right now we're into an impal it's a few years older than the Buick and you can see and I was telling you about the clearance in the hood you can actually see where that's going to contact here if I try to lift that up so what I'm going to do is I'll see if the keys are in this vehicle now I've turned the key off and now the wipers have parked themselves up in the middle of the stroke so now I can go ahead and lift that up I've got lots of clearance here on the hood it's not going to hit I'm going to work at the wiper blade so this is the older hook style wiper blade they all pretty much go on and off in the same manner same style end as the Buick we were working on a minute ago the only difference is the way the lock goes to kind of to remove it so underneath here there's a locking tab that you have to lift up or press down to get it unlocked sometimes these are tricky but and the older the wiper gets the more brittle the plastic is okay so we get that tab unlocked here and you go ahead and you slide that wiper blade back and you'll see that little tiny square hole that's in the wiper blade and that's what the lock slides into so either if the lock's in the bottom you have to pull down and if the lock's in between the hook you lift up on that so we're going to set that down just nice and easy so it doesn't hurt anything and you can see here's a wiper blade that should be replaced so this is the same kind of hybrid design as the last blade we worked at but it doesn't have that fan blade section on one side so this is going to catch the wind worse and you can put this blade on either direction on the car so this one here you don't have to worry about that but the only thing is you'll see this blade in the top it's the rubber's coming out and if you look straight down you can obviously see that it's out and the blade's starting to lay over a little bit on this side this blade, wiper blade, should be replaced it's probably chatters and it probably doesn't clean the window very well so we're going to assume that we've got the new blade here you're going to put on this U hook style clip you want you're going to slide that up in there until you hear the click and then you're good to go and then you're going to turn your key back on allow the wipers to park and that's how you install a wiper blade on these cars so a couple things to just keep in mind when you're getting your wiper blades if you're getting a universal set you want to flip that package open and look on the back to make sure that the style blade that you have is on there most places you buy blades they'll have a catalog there some sort of interactive kind of iPad there you can go through select your year make model if you're getting a universal set and you're at a spot that doesn't have that catalog set up either digital or paper the length is real important so and you want to make sure you put the right length because driver and passenger side on some cars they're different from passenger to driver and you just swap those around you can actually do a bit of damage to your car you can damage your wiper blades, the new ones you put on or you can damage your actual motor transmission when they overlap to bring in how the wipers run so length, clip style and make sure you put them on the right way you're great other than that wiper blades pretty easy to change rear wiper blades on a lot of hatchbacks and minivans and wagons and stuff they go on and off the same way so hope that's helped you guys out this time you have a wiper blade you need to have changed it's coming on winter time so a good time to think about changing your blades you've been driving them all summer, lots of bugs and stuff you get some dirt build up in your windshield and it's plugged up your blades or your blade rubbers are getting worn out so just come on down and see us if you need a set for your car and we'll get you set up with a good set of wiper blades and ones that you're looking for there'll be all seasons or winter blades so there's a few different designs to look at so that's been wiper blades look forward to seeing you