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Post by roly on Jan 1, 2022 21:30:51 GMT -5
Why does the driver's side always fail first, and is the issue affiliated with missing socks?
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 1, 2022 21:43:22 GMT -5
The hydro-magnetized, left side of the windshield tends to attract the larger, heavier rain drops, which places greater strains on that blade than on the other. Numerous, clinical trials have shown this to be the case.
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Post by roly on Jan 1, 2022 22:59:54 GMT -5
The hydro-magnetized phenomena intensity is directly proportional to latitude.
North of 60, its effect is, although measurable, basically of no consequence.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 1, 2022 23:10:39 GMT -5
There are, however, localized pockets where this effect is, nonetheless, unusually strong. Unless I am mistaken, Whitehorse and Moose Jaw are among them. Check your local hydro-magnetization tables to be sure...
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 2, 2022 3:26:35 GMT -5
Is that why my wiper blades wear in the opposite direction?
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Post by gato on Jan 2, 2022 5:48:42 GMT -5
The hydro-magnetized, left side of the windshield tends to attract the larger, heavier rain drops, which places greater strains on that blade than on the other. Numerous, clinical trials have shown this to be the case. Cliff Clavin could not have explained it better |
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Post by Opie on Jan 2, 2022 6:00:06 GMT -5
Below the equator it's the passenger side gets worn first.Fact.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Jan 2, 2022 9:21:14 GMT -5
In my case it is because my driver's side blade is a 28" and the passenger's side is a 14".
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Jan 2, 2022 9:22:13 GMT -5
Below the equator it's the passenger side gets worn first.Fact. But in Oz, they have right hand drive cars... right? Do the wipers operate backwards as well? |
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 2, 2022 10:10:04 GMT -5
Below the equator it's the passenger side gets worn first.Fact. But in Oz, they have right hand drive cars... right? Do the wipers operate backwards as well? Well they certainly should! |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jan 2, 2022 10:43:42 GMT -5
They’re upside down, shouldn’t the rain just fall off the windshield back into the sky?
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 2, 2022 10:54:33 GMT -5
They’re upside down, shouldn’t the rain just fall off the windshield back into the sky? It used to, but then we heard Sir Isaac Newton invented gravity, and since then everything only falls downward. Took a while to get used to, but we're okay with it now. |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 2, 2022 11:50:23 GMT -5
Why does the driver's side always fail first It's due to the laminar hydrocoptic pressure and intermodial protraction of the compressatory boundary layer. More info here: |
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Post by windmill on Jan 3, 2022 18:33:12 GMT -5
Below the equator it's the passenger side gets worn first.Fact. But in Oz, they have right hand drive cars... right? Do the wipers operate backwards as well? Yeah, sometimes we have to drive from the passenger seat just get a clear veiw of the road through the wipers.
Don't yours go backwards as well ? 
As far as the rain falling upwards,it happens during driving but when we stop ...I'm not sure where it comes from !
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Post by walshb 🦒 on Jan 4, 2022 9:29:15 GMT -5
I keep a large magnet on the dash on my side. I just have to make sure it's oriented properly, so that it doesn't jump up onto the hydro-magnetic windshield. So far, it has worked on our Buick with 40K miles on it.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 4, 2022 10:49:23 GMT -5
A copper golf bracelet on your wrist and magnetic insoles in your shoes will also help.
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Post by hushnel on Jan 4, 2022 11:54:44 GMT -5
Because it’s on the side that’s closest to the oncoming traffic, which is picking up microscopic road debris the diver-side wiper has to deal with. It’s exacerbated by the curvature of the windshield, the drivers side curvature bias sheds the wind towards the left, pushing the micro debris into the path of the wiper blade, were as on the right side the grit blasting continues to the right where the debris flow is reducing the grit grinding effect.
Add in a small dose of Murphy’s law, being the side we need to mostly see through, adds to the problem.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 4, 2022 11:59:29 GMT -5
^^^ THAT is great analysis, hushnel.
The right-side wiper throws goop over to the driver's side on the up-sweep, and the left-side wiper has to wipe it off on the downstroke. As a result the left-side wiper works twice as hard than the right and wears faster.
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Post by hushnel on Jan 4, 2022 12:17:01 GMT -5
When we consider that the windshield is beveled similarly from left side to right side the action you speak of should be approximately equal, excluding the affect of oncoming traffic, which creates a rather snotty wind flow being broken up and influenced by the wind responding to the vehicle, along with atmospheric affects of wind direction.
The prof of theory would be if the effect in left side driving was equal and opposite.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 4, 2022 13:12:44 GMT -5
The WBME (Wiper Blade Mortality Effect) is particularly pronounced in cars which seldom carry passengers. That's because infrared and ultra-violet spectrum light rays refracted off occupants' retinas and back out through the windshield enhance decrepitation of the chemical compounds contained in the wiper blades, thereby aging them prematurely. A recent survey revealed that wiper blades taken from cars which spend the majority of their drive time in freeway commute lanes (which are available for use only by vehicles containing more than one occupant) wore in a far more even (if acceleratedly deteriorating) manner than those gleaned from single-occupant vehicles.
A control group which drove in the commute lane but carried an "adult", blow-up doll (adorned with a wig, and either a tube top and bikini bottom or a push-up bra and yoga pants) as a passenger rather than an actual human being, seems to confirm this thesis. The effect of wardrobe variations was found to be statistically insignificant. It was also noted that in this control group, the vitality of conversational content also suffered but, this did not seem to bear on wiper blade deterioration to any measurable degree either.
Once again, science debunks unsubstantiated speculation and reveals the true nature on natural phenomena.
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