I bought some Alca blades off eBay earlier this year for my old Passat. For the price (£15/16), they were excellent.
What brand wipers do you use?
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I've used Valeo for a good few years now and like them.
Years ago Champion were the go-to brand but I bought a set that seemed to start shuddering after not too long. I compared the blades to some old ones in the shed and found that they'd made the metal frame out of thinner metal!
So I switched to Bosch. I found that they worked great at first but soon seemed to stop clearing very well. Window was always smeary as if there was some contamination on it. I was forever cleaning the glass and it never seemed to totally fix it.
Tried Valeo, best yet. Last for ages and work really well. Interestingly, about a month ago I put two new Valeo on the golf, perfect. About a week later I was in the VW/Audi parts centre and I picked up two new blades for the Leon. I can't remember the brand but they were VW approved. The nearside one was fine but the offside blade was not clearing a strip right in your sight-line. I gave it a while to bed in and tried bending the blade backwards to increase the pressure in the middle but it didn't help. Ripped them off and put on Valeos, perfect.
Just my experience but at the moment, Valeo is all I'll buy.
Years ago Champion were the go-to brand but I bought a set that seemed to start shuddering after not too long. I compared the blades to some old ones in the shed and found that they'd made the metal frame out of thinner metal!
So I switched to Bosch. I found that they worked great at first but soon seemed to stop clearing very well. Window was always smeary as if there was some contamination on it. I was forever cleaning the glass and it never seemed to totally fix it.
Tried Valeo, best yet. Last for ages and work really well. Interestingly, about a month ago I put two new Valeo on the golf, perfect. About a week later I was in the VW/Audi parts centre and I picked up two new blades for the Leon. I can't remember the brand but they were VW approved. The nearside one was fine but the offside blade was not clearing a strip right in your sight-line. I gave it a while to bed in and tried bending the blade backwards to increase the pressure in the middle but it didn't help. Ripped them off and put on Valeos, perfect.
Just my experience but at the moment, Valeo is all I'll buy.
Same thing happens to me when I was using Bosch wipers, they'd smear after a few weeks then they'd start violently juddering on my windscreen. Never had a Valeo set judder even after I had my windscreen ceramic coated.
It's quite important to buy the set that are vehicle/manufacturer specific, if you don't you get a blade that's designed for a host of cars with a bag of clips and isn't quite right. Bosch do a vehicle specific one I personally just stick with genuine vag ones.
Not always, the Bosch kits with S at the end are model specific so no extra parts needed, I think that VW Group used to only fit Valeo or Bosch at factories, but now it seems they normally only fit MG, who are Mogul General, who seem to have scooped up brands like Champion etc.
One thing that I avoid doing is to buy Quantum branded wipers as while they are approved by VW Group, they are not the brands that VW Group sell in the parts department if you request replacements by the original VW Group part numbers - Quantum is only a synthetic brand created by VW UK to cover cheaper alternative aftermarket stuff, ie to grab sales from other aftermarket supplies.
Valeo for me too, we have loads of trees around the house so the claybar come out quite regularly!
For years I've used Bosch on previous cars Corsa,astra vxr's Hyundai, model specific one's bought a set of Bosch one's for my rag top and they judder quite badly so will be trying some valeo one's.
I've not long bought a rear blade for my Leon to replace the factory one because that was juddering that one was a Bosch one works a treat.
I've not long bought a rear blade for my Leon to replace the factory one because that was juddering that one was a Bosch one works a treat.
I have pine trees in my driveway and they love dropping needles all over the cars this time of year, they're great at ripping wiper blades and a huge pain in the arse to get off the car. Half tempted to turn the trees into a nice set of drawers.
I've never had a problem with Bosch rear wipers or the small one that goes on the passenger side of some cars. It's usually the longer wiper that goes wrong for me.
Morning all, typical my rear blades gone now do we reckon that one of these would fit on a 2.0 2018 FR 5 door https://www.mpdonline.co.uk/seat-le...wiper-arms-blades-wipa-wi/wiper-blade/RBA331H
That'll be fine. Rear blade on the hatch is 13 inch and slightly longer will fit so that blade will fit.
Could you link me please pal? I need a rear one but may as well get the set for the future. My rear one is making that annoying dragging sound which to me means it’s losing its blade
I'm not sure that SRGTD was meaning "his Leon MK3" for some strange reason, it seems that Bosch do not supply an "exact fit" for Leon MK3 front wipers yet, only wipers with a selection of "fits all" adaptors, so I'd, in this case, stick with Valeo as their front wiper set is "exact fit" so no adaptors needed. VW Group do or did fit Valeo wiper blades at some factories, in the case of Polo 6C and maybe similar aged Ibiza, on the rear only, with Bosch on the front.
After 3 sets of Bosch wipers on the rear of my car and every single one juddering every time i used the wiper.
This morning i swapped to Valeo and not a single judder. Perfect. I know where I will be buying from from now one.
This morning i swapped to Valeo and not a single judder. Perfect. I know where I will be buying from from now one.
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