Windshield Wipers for Volvo 1998 v70, Dual Blades?

[MrAl]

Hello all,

So i guess you all like Bosch the best?

[WhatAmIDoing]

MrAI I highly recommend Bosch clear advantage beam blades. Even during heavy downpour, they did pretty good. Not amazing for that much water, but like 85/100. I buy bigger than oem for my 98 v70. Rear window is 14 or 16 oem I think. I've got bosch 16CA. Got 22CA passenger side, 24CA driver side.

Rear for 98 is a 17, or at least that's what the book at the farm shop said. It fits.

Hello all,

So i guess you all like Bosch the best?

Bosch is generally a good value for more premium quality. But be careful, Bosch also makes some cheap crap. I have also found rain-X blades to be good budget options.

[MrAl]

MrAI I highly recommend Bosch clear advantage beam blades. Even during heavy downpour, they did pretty good. Not amazing for that much water, but like 85/100. I buy bigger than oem for my 98 v70. Rear window is 14 or 16 oem I think. I've got bosch 16CA. Got 22CA passenger side, 24CA driver side.

Rear for 98 is a 17, or at least that's what the book at the farm shop said. It fits.

Hello all,

So i guess you all like Bosch the best?

Bosch is generally a good value for more premium quality. But be careful, Bosch also makes some cheap crap. I have also found rain-X blades to be good budget options.

Hello,

It's interesting what you said about Bosch making some junk sometimes. I didnt want to be the one to bring this up so i am glad you did.
I bought some hex shaft torx bits a while back, i think it was a 3 pack, and 2 of the 3 were BENT. Yes, the shafts were bent and so using them with a portable drill to screw in some sheetrock screws leads to a very unusual and annoying experience where the dang screw wobbles as you are trying to drive it into the wall. That's completely ridiculous. I was very disappointed.
Then i had to wonder. Could they have been fakes? Imitations made by a cheap company who try to sell their produces as brand name especially using big brand names. We see this all the time in the electronics industry where parts are made with values that are nothing like they really are, being exaggerated so that the buyer thinks they are getting a good deal. I was actually involved in a class action lawsuit for bad capacitors a while back so i know firsthand what a problem this can be. This was especially a problem with electrolytic caps (yes the kind in the fuel pump relays on the 1998 v70 and i am sure many other parts in many other cars). They would go bad much sooner than the rating because they were made by a company that used the brand names but made them with cheaper materials and took other shortcuts.

So yeah it's a problem, but it is very hard to combat because the parts are very nearly identical to the real ones, and even detecting the source is hard to do. The best we can do i guess is examine the part and try to test it as best we can and return it if it looks like a fake.

[CIK7]

Hello,
Then i had to wonder. Could they have been fakes? Imitations made by a cheap company who try to sell their produces as brand name especially using big brand names. We see this all the time in the electronics industry where parts are made with values that are nothing like they really are, being exaggerated so that the buyer thinks they are getting a good deal. I was actually involved in a class action lawsuit for bad capacitors a while back so i know firsthand what a problem this can be. This was especially a problem with electrolytic caps (yes the kind in the fuel pump relays on the 1998 v70 and i am sure many other parts in many other cars). They would go bad much sooner than the rating because they were made by a company that used the brand names but made them with cheaper materials and took other shortcuts.

So yeah it's a problem, but it is very hard to combat because the parts are very nearly identical to the real ones, and even detecting the source is hard to do. The best we can do i guess is examine the part and try to test it as best we can and return it if it looks like a fake.

This is something that I have seen everywhere besides normal scams. I confronted a seller on ebay about selling counterfeit Bosch fuel injectors and another about counterfeit Honda parts (timing belt kit?). Another actually expressed worry in his response to me when i asked about some fake Bosch O2 sensors. Pisses me off so much. And in the last year scams seem to have exploded. It doesn't have to be your money directly. They want ANYTHING. They will advertise fake mobile games (Youtube, FB) that mimic BeamNG, GTA V, PUBG, Fortnite, advertise cheap Chinese products that already exist but they claim to have been used by military ($5000 value) or made by some genius in Norway or at MIT (youtube), leaving 2min clips of cool movies and then tons of spam (account hijack) links in comments to supposed 'movie sites' (FB). They want your money, your info, your nitty gritty details. If they had the power, they would take your head! I hate that kind of greed so much. I wish i was tech savvy like John Browning and Scammer Payback on YouTube. I'd be more hardcore than them. They would hate being a scammer when I'm done. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
On another note there is a knockoff I do like and you might laugh. Before video game maker Bethesda was bought by Microsoft, they made Fallout 4. The map is a watered down version of Boston. The river entrance is almost accurate to the real one. The knockoff they created was of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech, renamed the Commonwealth Institute of Tech.

[MrAl]

Hello,
Then i had to wonder. Could they have been fakes? Imitations made by a cheap company who try to sell their produces as brand name especially using big brand names. We see this all the time in the electronics industry where parts are made with values that are nothing like they really are, being exaggerated so that the buyer thinks they are getting a good deal. I was actually involved in a class action lawsuit for bad capacitors a while back so i know firsthand what a problem this can be. This was especially a problem with electrolytic caps (yes the kind in the fuel pump relays on the 1998 v70 and i am sure many other parts in many other cars). They would go bad much sooner than the rating because they were made by a company that used the brand names but made them with cheaper materials and took other shortcuts.

So yeah it's a problem, but it is very hard to combat because the parts are very nearly identical to the real ones, and even detecting the source is hard to do. The best we can do i guess is examine the part and try to test it as best we can and return it if it looks like a fake.

This is something that I have seen everywhere besides normal scams. I confronted a seller on ebay about selling counterfeit Bosch fuel injectors and another about counterfeit Honda parts (timing belt kit?). Another actually expressed worry in his response to me when i asked about some fake Bosch O2 sensors. Pisses me off so much. And in the last year scams seem to have exploded. It doesn't have to be your money directly. They want ANYTHING. They will advertise fake mobile games (Youtube, FB) that mimic BeamNG, GTA V, PUBG, Fortnite, advertise cheap Chinese products that already exist but they claim to have been used by military ($5000 value) or made by some genius in Norway or at MIT (youtube), leaving 2min clips of cool movies and then tons of spam (account hijack) links in comments to supposed 'movie sites' (FB). They want your money, your info, your nitty gritty details. If they had the power, they would take your head! I hate that kind of greed so much. I wish i was tech savvy like John Browning and Scammer Payback on YouTube. I'd be more hardcore than them. They would hate being a scammer when I'm done. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
On another note there is a knockoff I do like and you might laugh. Before video game maker Bethesda was bought by Microsoft, they made Fallout 4. The map is a watered down version of Boston. The river entrance is almost accurate to the real one. The knockoff they created was of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech, renamed the Commonwealth Institute of Tech.

Hi,

I didnt realize it was that bad, but i stay away from eBay because everything i bought from them several years ago had a defect of some kind that the advertisement for the stuff was either wrong about or deceiving. It was a long time ago so i dont remember all of the stuff, not that much really cause i quit them really fast, but i do remember i got some sort of repair disk from a seller and the ad said it covered the 1998 v70 i have, but lo and behold it did not cover anything 1998. It think it was year 2000 and up.
So i never buy from eBay, at least not directly. If someone buys something and it is good, i may buy it from them though. I got some resistors from a neighbor as he ordered them previously and they looked ok. Maybe some things they cant mess up, but i did notice something funny about them too: they had STEEL leads. The normal lead is copper with a plating of some sort like zinc or something. Steel has a much higher magnetic permeability than copper, much much higher, so they may not work in a radio frequency circuit where skin effect depends on permeability. Should be ok for DC though and line frequency AC, but in all the years i have been buying resistors from many sources, that's the first time i ever saw steel leads. Someone wanted to cut costs to the bare minimum.