My 90 has a few hundred miles and living in south Florida, I get the chance to use the wipers regularly. They are awful, stuttering across the windshield under most circumstances. I've tried cleaning with windshield and blades with rubbing alcohol in case there was some sort of residue causing the problem, but no change. Anyone else notice this? If so- can it be corrected with better aftermarket blades - which ones? First LR, so hopefully aftermarket blades contain the propoer adaptors to fit the arms.

 

Did you try rainx?

 

Mine are completely smooth and I believe they’re already fairly decent blades to begin with. My thought is maybe your 90 was in port for a while or outside in an area with a lot of air pollution. Anyway, I’ve had this problem in the past on a different brand and I did what you did, scrape the window a razor blade with lots of glass cleaner, then replaced the blades with Bosch Icons. Robles solved. PS, the OE blades look identical to Bosch Icons at least to me and I don’t think they’re the OE blades are inferior. Also, I would never use RainX.

 

Thanks I agree- the blades look high enough quality and I've re-cleaned everything to see if things improve. Also agree- RainX and wipers together never seem to work out well in the end!

 

Try a 1000 grade sand paper and smoothen the wiping surface. That should help.

 

They should get better over time. Mine "stuttered" a bit when new, but now are smooth when I use them. I wouldn't mess with them -- a few rainstorms and you should be fine.

 

Rubbing alcohol removes the road grime stuck to the blades and helps them glide. Good to know Bosch Icons are better again. There was a time a few years ago when something changed in the manufacturing process and they were junk. (As confirmed by many fellow Bosch Icon users on an Audi Q7 forum)

 

I had the same thing. VERY annoying and in Seattle totally not ok. Tried everything, then went to the dealer and they swapped them out. I did see a video review early on from a You-Tuber with the same issue. I'm thinking just faulty blades.

Just to clarify: I assumed that this would go away in a couple of days. It did not. I probably put up with it for a month. As a Seattle resident, I have gone through my share of wiper blades. The issue was terrible and not fixable by cleaning or adjusting the blades. There was clearly something wrong. I even spent some time considering the amount of pressure being applied to the glass by the wiper arms. I turned off the rain-sensing feature. My thinking now is that there was/is a QA problem with whoever is making the wiper blades for LR in Slovakia.

 

Mine did this for the first few uses but settled and now seem fantastic

 

My wipers continue to judder across the windshield. It was bucketing in Seattle today and I had to be driving on the highway for a couple of hours, so I had plenty of time to analyze further. The video captures the annoying noise and lack of function. The rain was just starting in the video, so please don't take the relative lack of rain on the windshield as a reason for the juddering. Believe me, they did the same thing all afternoon in the downpour. When I put them on high speed, they didn't judder anymore, but are still annoyingly loud and they seem to be hitting the edge of the windshield. I'm over 60 and I've never had this happen before. I can't use regular speed or intermittent. Most of the time, I am manually doing a single sweep.