I bought five total. One of them is the wrong length -- maybe (see below). So there are two that still need to be replaced: My passenger side and the rear on the minivan (which, I want to say, has been back there for years). Yeah, it's kind of a half-assed job seeing that two blades still need to be swapped out and I bought one that doesn't fit. And surprisingly, Amazon wasn't much of a help; I ordered these through them before, but for some reason, like you see, I couldn't all of the right ones ordered.
It still seems strange that I would buy wiper blades through Amazon when Wal-Mart has them, so a few months ago, I went there. I've bought a replacement or two there in the past, but this time around, things were different. I'm going by the length of the blade, which used to be printed, in big digits, across the top of each blade package -- you know, "25," or "16," etc. For some goddamn reason, there aren't just digits there anymore. Some of them have a letter in front, and then a dash, and then what appears to be the length of the blade, and then some of them have a dash and yet another number after it. What the fuck, man? I just want a blade that fits my car, and they're complicating it, and I know it doesn't have to be.
About that blade I may have ordered by mistake: It's 13 inches long, and I swear I was told that is the length of my car's passenger-side wiper. But I have seen in other places that it's actually 14 inches. And believe me or not, the manufacturer can't give me a straight answer, and Google can't aggregate the websites that will tell me definitively whether it's supposed to be 13" or 14". I looked through the links, and I see both lengths given. Can it be either? That seems dangerous to me.
Maybe it's my fault for not writing the lengths down. But damn, they're just wiper blades.
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