03CR-V Windshield Wipers Noise

[yvrwfc]

Hi
just got my new baby less than a week.. I hv noticed that the wipers are making noise when applied..(it's not the high pitch squeaky noise.) It seems like the blades are "slugghish" during wiping... and it's making the "ba, ba, ba" kind of noise when wiping..

When I apply the windshield fluids, the noise seems to go away and the wipers do a wonderful job.. however, when no fluid, under regular rain...the noise resumes..

is this unusual? or just the rubber of the blades are just too new/hard? I think i shud take the car back to the dealer for a quick look..

w.
bc canada

 

['Curly Q. Links']

Hi
just got my new baby less than a week.. I hv noticed that the wipers are making noise when applied..(it's not the high pitch squeaky noise.) It seems like the blades are "slugghish" during wiping... and it's making the "ba, ba, ba" kind of noise when wiping..

When I apply the windshield fluids, the noise seems to go away and the wipers do a wonderful job.. however, when no fluid, under regular rain...the noise resumes..

is this unusual? or just the rubber of the blades are just too new/hard? I think i shud take the car back to the dealer for a quick look..

w.
bc canada

Try a small bottle (or a single treatment wipette) of Rain Away and see if using it solves the problem. It provides some kind of polymer coating to the glass, and it's bound to do something to the way your blades sound. My wife's Odyssey has noisy blades too, but she doesn't seem to care.

'Curly'

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[yvrwfc]

Curly- thks for yr tips.. The noise is quite annoying.. plus I can see the blades' wiping motion from left to right, right to left.. Instead of wiping smoothly from left to right ...it's like "wipe/stucked/wipe/stucked/wipe/stucked.."

I wonder if the wipers are too tight (the knob on the windshield wipers arm) and therefore causing the blades to over-press against the glass..

w.
-crv newbie..