Since 1988, New Port Engineering has been producing replacement kits for windshield wipers, taking those old vacuum motors and replacing them with 12-volt electric wiper kits. Instead of relying on a ...

If you've ever driven a car with vacuum windshield wipers in the rain, you'll recognize this scenario. As you encounter an incline the wipers slow down, as the incline becomes steeper you step down on ...

In today's established dual-front wiper systems, a mechanical link between the left and right wiper is used for synchronization (Figure 1). This is necessary because of the different behaviors of the ...

When it came time to confront the chore of keeping our 1960 Corvette project’s windshield clean during inclement weather, we quickly came up with four valid reasons to replace the factory system with ...

CARS.COM — Replacing your own windshield wipers can be intimidating to the uninitiated. The swiping arms of plastic connectors, rubber and metal may seem like a riddle with steps only Indiana Jones ...

CARS.COM — If your windshield wiper blades leave streaks and smears, or if they scrape and chatter even when there is plenty of moisture on the glass, your car could need new wiper blades. If in bad ...