Wiper blades up or down

[mlctvt]

Down.
My Subaru Legacy has de-icer coils under the wipers and it takes less than a minute to de-ice them once you hit the switch.

The car was covered in ice after work today took a few minutes to get it off all of the windows.

 

[Greg]

I have mine up today.

+1

 

[ctenidae]

Mine are up only if I talk dirty to them.

Garages at home and work, but never put them up, anyway, even street parking in Boston. Like others have said, don't see the advantage, and the heater takes care of it by the time I get to the windshield. Useful, I suppose, for those people who do the bare minimum of car leaning, though- I can see how saving a few seconds is useful when you're trying to minimize the time spent clearing off your car. In which case it should be a 30 raffle ticket charge.

 

[Glenn]

I'm living on the edge. It's icing out and my wipers are down. Take that!!!

 

[deadheadskier]

Up - one less thing to clean.

 

[dmc]

up so they don't get frozen into the well they sit in..

 

[jaywbigred]

That's why I didn't vote.

Me too!

 

[Johnskiismore]

Up, much easier to clean the windshield and break ice off the blades

 

[ZYDECORICH]

up.. and then sometimes i'll stuff a couple rags in the wells so that their clean, unless there is ice expected then I don't use the rags.

 

[caddis]

I leave them up so after a big dump it gives me better odds of finding which truck is mine.

 

[Bumpsis]

Down, mainly beause I'm concerned about spring fatigue in the wiper arm. If the spring gets weaker due to being streached (arm up) for hours at a time, I'd think that the whole wiper arm may thus exert less pressure on the wiper blade against the window.
Then, regardless of the actual state of the wiper, I'll be getting less than optimal wiper action.

This is all speculation, but I just don't think that wipers were designed to be in up postion for long.

Besides, getting the ice and snow cleared out is not really such a big deal. Just warm up the car and blast the defrost.

 

[bigbog]

Another helpful part of the survival act is to have some HD-40 along, to spray on the wiper arm's springs. Once the glass is warm you're ok. What I really would like to find is a battery-driven heat gun...has to be one/some out there.

 

[dmc]

Down, mainly beause I'm concerned about spring fatigue in the wiper arm. If the spring gets weaker due to being streached (arm up) for hours at a time, I'd think that the whole wiper arm may thus exert less pressure on the wiper blade against the window.

Spring fatigue...
wow... thats a new one..

 

[jrmagic]

Another helpful part of the survival act is to have some HD-40 along, to spray on the wiper arm's springs. Once the glass is warm you're ok. What I really would like to find is a battery-driven heat gun...has to be one/some out there.

I've never seen a battery one. I think you would need to convert too much energy for them to be of much use but there is or at least was a butane gun you could get which doesn't need a cord.

As for the OT mine go up on the occasion I remember. I tihnk this seaosn they have been up once

 

[billski]

What I really would like to find is a battery-driven heat gun...has to be one/some out there.