Product Description

Bracketless wiper blades, also known as beam blades, are designed without the metal or plastic brackets, joints or hinges of conventional wiper blades. So snow and ice have nowhere to build up. In addition, the patented design of Bosch Evolution features dual precision-tensioned steel springs that distribute more uniform pressure along the entire length of the blade for exceptional all-weather visibility.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4114 in Automotive
• Size: 20"
• Brand: Bosch
• Model: 4820

Features

• Precision-cut, specially blended natural rubber wiping edge removes even the smallest droplets for clear visibility and safer driving
• Patented bracketless design provides superior resistance to ice and snow build-up for better performance and visibility in all weather
• Precision-tensioned dual steel springs create tension memory, applying uniform pressure along the entire blade length
• Symmetrical wind spoiler uses air flow to increase blade-to-windshield contact
• DirectConnect installation system ensures easy installation with no adapters for most vehicles

Customer Reviews

Disappointed

These wipers are a huge disappointment. I put them on this summer. Sitting at a stoplight, they do a great job of wiping the windshield. But when you really need them, while driving in the rain, they lift off the windshield at speeds above 40 MPH.

Now that it is winter, they freeze up the same or worse than a standard metal frame.

I'm not sure what the advantage of these wipers is...save your money and stick with traditional wipers.

Three Season
I purchased these in the spring and they are great. Quiet and worked well. Living in the Buffalo, NY area, it was only a matter of time that they would get tested in winter conditions. The storm yesterday was a perfect test. They immediately froze up and created an uncleared area in the center of my vision. At each traffic light that was red, I would wait until the wiper was up, turn the car off and reach out and bang the blade to clear the ice. It was back to not seeing within 3 minutes. Once I actually had to use an ice scraper to scrape the ice off the blade. I'm going back to traditional winter blades and will use these again in the spring.

Good wiper, Made in China
I deducted (2) stars because this product was made in China, whereas other Bosch windshield wiper products are manufactured in Germany or Belgium. Amazon should start listing this information. However, if country-of-origin doesn't matter to you as a consumer, read on.

Bracketless wiper means the rubber blade is not suspended in the ubiquitous metal frame. The blade is attached to a strong yet flexible length of plastic with a bulb in the center to hook your wiper. Unlike traditional wipers, the dual springs keep the blade real taut -- the whole wiper is bowed out of the package -- and it hugs the surface of the window evenly its entire length. Wiper action is butter smooth and quiet, zero streaking.

Good spring/summer/fall wiper. Stick to a metal bracketed wiper for ice and snow where this sort of product does not perform well. In anything other than rain or light snow I give it (2) stars.