Windshield wiper blades ????

[b5blue]

 Today I noticed my Jeep's wiper blade rubber starting to come apart just a bit. Seems blade refills are no longer a buy at the store option. Walmart, NAPA, Advance auto and Auto Zone all were no go. They all had 8.00 to 22.00 full replacements and a few places had really crappy off brand replacements for around 6.00. (None could get refills from their warehouse.)
After rebuilding both my Jeep and Chargers wiper drive sets I'd realized some of the aftermarket replacements stack up to quite a bit more weight to be flopping back and forth and that stresses the old bushings and pivot points extra. I found 16 inch actually work better on the old Jeep then the 18's called for and thankfully decent resto type are available for 1st and 2nd gen. B Body.
I've ordered Anco 31-16's for the Jeep, 2 for about 11.00 delivered (Amazon) and found Rockauto had Anco refills, 2 for 1.90 so ordered 2 sets with shipping came to 7.50. I'm just posting to give a heads up to check your wipers and order before needed or you could waste a good bit of money. 

[Charger_Fan]

I think it's lame that parts stores no longer stock refills. I'm glad Rock Auto still has them though, and they are cheap!

[lloyd3]

The older these cars get, the harder it will become to source what used to be no-brainer parts.  I had to get some points for my '68 last summer and it wasn't pretty. The "expert" at the NAPA store simply didn't understand dual-point distributers and only ordered me one set at a time.  He was a 20-something and just didn't get it (for the millennial generation, history began in the 1980s, WWII and Vietnam are "ancient history"....so are our cars).  I try to get one of the older guys when I'm in there for the Dodge, just to keep it simpler, but even that is getting harder to do.