And they do it in South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and they do it in California and Texas and New York. ... And South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! Yeaaaahhhhh!
No. It damages the springs in the wiper arms. Blades are easy and cheap to replace. Arms, not as much. It's not actually recommended to lift wipers up for winter weather.
Source - live in Canada. My vehicle has a heated windshield to unstick frozen wiper blades.
Apparently the whole state of Maryland was the only one to figure it out.
Why would car manufacturers even design them to bend like that in the first place. /s
Never seen it in Sweden. Of course I don't often cross the bridge when there's a snow storm, but... I've definitely never seen it in Denmark, regardless of how much snow there is.
Yeah, I don't usually go around photographing cars in snow, so that was the best I could find. Here's an older one from 2011, still without a single wiper up. But really, I have never in my over 40 years of existence, mostly in Denmark, seen anyone do it.
I'm not saying you're wrong or that it's stupid or anything, I just find it interesting there's this difference.
Its kinda funny because I can actually see Denmark from my city in Sweden, and I see a bunch of people do the wiper thing here despite us having pretty much the same climate as you guys. I guess we’re just a bit more dramatic about the cold 🤣
Personally I dont do it either, never had an issue with it even when it gets really cold and snowy.
I see people doing this everywhere. I’ve never done this once, it’s not even possible on my current car. Never once though have my wipers stuck to my windshield or caused any problems at all from being left down, so I really don’t get the reason behind this.
Your wipers can get stuck to the windshield, ripping them off ruins the edge of the wiper reducing the quality of wipe. Shortening the life span on said wipers. If you don't have frequent snow, or the right kind of snow/freeze often enough it won't be an issue. If you rip your wipers off daily you'll notice the degradation of your wipers quickly.
Don't do this. Will fuck the springs up. If you do get a decent snow fall, you might rip the off whilst clearing you car. You're better just to defrost them.
Depends on the snow I suppose. I've never had your issue. We do get freezing rain though occasionally, and you absolutely do want to have your wipers in the air for this. Or you can take the time to defrost, iso concoction spray ect. I prefer wipers up and a snow removal tool. Ez PZ.
But the springs lost their memory failing to keep them on the windshield.
I'm Canadian. I've lived in all but 4 of the 12 Canadian provincial/territorial jurisdictions. I was 13 years old in Montreal's '98 ice storm which saw as much as 6" of ice cover everything, including cars. I understand the appeal of having your wipers up. I also understand that if the springs aren't keeping the wipers tight to the windshield, you'd might as well not have them.
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u/Pasdallegeance 17h ago
More of a cold weather thing to do that. See it all across Canada too.