Car customisation is a pretty recent phenomena and a quick look at the various addons around for each type of automobile is breath taking. These days it’s not just your stereotypical boy racers who customise their cars now thanks to mass production everyone is getting in on the act, even something as little as changing the wiper blades to a different model can give your car a new look. The global industrialisation of first world countries and out sourcing to third world ones has produced an large market place of products. Old automobiles and wiper blades are pretty much a thing of the past, these days everyone is a consumer and the price of low rent cars has dropped so low nearly everyone with even a low paying job seems to have their own transport. It’s not like the old days where cars would remain on the road until they collapsed into a pile of rust and bolts, just ten or twenty years ago you would see quite a body of different cars on the road. Many of them just being used into the ground, the problem with romanticising the past is that there is a tendency to only recall the good things and forget the bad stuff. In fact nostalgia about motorcars is not unheard of, maybe that’s one reason why classic cars and wiper blades are so sought after, and the word nostalgia itself literally means the pain or ache for home.
Perhaps by buying a piece of the past we hope to hold the past and freeze time, the motor itself representing a refracting prism of our earlier selves at a different point in time, perhaps a better point in time and this way conserving a part of ourselves in an externalised product. Or maybe classic cars and replacement wiper blades are just a midlife crisis who knows they decidedly are super cool though. A major puzzle with classic components like replacement wiper blades and the cars themselves is that they were never made to be fuel efficient. These days with the beginning of the apocalypse and global warming all modern machine emissions are stringently vetted by the government in some countries. Despite all the advantages of present day cars and replacement wiper blades is that they all arrive pretty much enclosed in a black box of technological wizardry that only the brave or foolish dare to open.
In some cases you even need special tools just to tune the engine and in others the electronics are so advanced you’re pretty much locked out. When was the last moment you actually saw someone with their head under the bonnet actually getting their claws dirty with the engine and wipers. Not for a long time I’ll wager, this is because as they have become more advanced people are less concerned with understanding how they go, they are content to just nip to the garage and get a professional to do the task on their behalf, unnecessary as wipers are easy to replace. Now this is fine is theory but the issue is you get locked into buying branded components like wipers, they are much cheaper online, so give it a look.