service done on the vehicles in Campbell River<\/a>, I let the service tech replace Miranda’s windshield wipers for me.<\/p>\nThe blades on the toad’s windshield wipers were coming off, so it was beyond time to replace them. Being in the Pacific Northwest, good wiper blades are a necessity! So last night I picked up a pair at Walmart with the intent to install them the second I got a clear window of weather.<\/p>\n
Figuring out what size to buy was easy. There’s a little computer in the wiper blade aisle. I used it to select the make, model, and year of my car and it told me “Driver: 22, Passenger 16.” The numbers are lengths in inches. Much easier method than the old one of looking up the information in my car manual or in a book on site!<\/p>\n
This afternoon, the weather let up, so I went out. One of my friends joined me. We were stymied. The trilingual instructions on the back of the packages were too generic. I pulled out the car’s manual and the very clear English instructions were useless. But the French were worded just a tad differently and I figured out that ‘down’ actually meant ‘kind of up and sideways’ and I was able to side the old blade off the passenger side.<\/p>\n
It took a bit longer to figure out how to fit on the new blade, with extra parts contained in the package serving only to confuse us. But I finally got the new wiper to click, and, oh, what a satisfying feeling! I had to relearn everything for the driver’s side, but it only took a couple of minutes to put together.<\/p>\n
Such a small job, but it took about a half hour. Next time, it will go much more quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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