Rain-X Vision Wiper Blade: 20", Standard Beam, All Weather Performance, Pack of 1

Aside from the install (see below), the quality of the blades seems pretty good. Clear water as expected, and if past performance is any indicator, they'll work well in the winter, too. The connector is really bulky, because they're trying to kill a few birds with one stone and make a universal adapter that has multiple pieces. If aesthetics are important, you may want to take a closer look at them before deciding. The connector really is huge, and looks a little out of place on some vehicles. I wouldn't buy this style for my Charger, when I had it, because it looked bad, and that was more important to me. Now that I've gotten rid of it for a Chrysler 300 that I use as my commuter (and a CX-5 for toting our kid around), I'm not as concerned about it. As for the actual installation... It is dreat for common J-hook attachment. If you have the push-on or another style, getting the main cover off is a real pain... Like jamming bamboo under your fingernails. Seriously... you have to pry both sides of the main cover off to get to the other adapter and, in the case of the push-on style attachment on my CX-5, remove that, as well. That isn't as bad, but prying off the main cover was not easy. Gotta get under a thin piece of plastic, on both sides, so they fight each other, hold them apart, AND push back on the cover to slide it off. I used a credit card shaped bottle opener from my wallet to hold one side open and probably could have used a credit card for the other side, but getting them separated requires a tool thinner than that - your fingernail or thumbnail, and while doing that, I jammed it under my nail multiple times while wrestling with it. Just.... painful. For a few days. Glad I won't have to do that again for a while, and I may even see what other options I have to avoid having to do that again.

For premium wiper blades, these have a few problems. I have the 1/4" side pin version wiper arm for which you go through a few steps to remove some of the wiper hardware. That was expected. But the problem (at least for my car) is that the little raised "shoulder" around the 1/4" wiper hole does not allow the wiper to slide in far enough for the step in the retaining cover to snap over the pin to hold it in place. Hard to explain but I had to file down most of that shoulder around the hole to make it fit properly. And it does not fit in the reverse direction so it matches the instructions and diagrams, just didn't fit my vehicle as it should, without modification. Both left and right wipers had the same problem. Another thing is that the passenger side sits off the windshield at the end, due to the windshield curvature. I thought these were supposed to prevent that. Also, the bulk of the center connection portion of the wiper sits ridiculously high off the wiper blade, not sleek at all. I should have stuck with the old style metal sectional wipers that are sleeker and curved around the windshield better. Plus they fit quickly and easily.