Bosch out of the blade refill business?

[auditude at get.net]

Hi Tony,

I experienced the same thing just last weekend, and then I found some refills at BAP Import Parts.
However, when I bought them and tried to put them into my original Bosch/Audi blades, I found they didn't
fit.  The Bosch style being sold now has a trapezoidal type clamp profile, while the older ones have sort of
a "tophat" type of a profile.

So, I ordered some replacement blades from TPC.  They are the cheaper of the two styles, at $7.50.  The
LAPS (lol) had them at about $9.99.
Rod wasn't able to tell me if the Excels and the cheaper ones had interchangeable refills, so I got the
cheaper ones, since those are the refils that BAP (http://www.bapimportparts.com/) had.

So, Bosch themselves probably still make them, but the local non-specialty places would rather sell you
the whole Bosch blade, or their non-Bosch brand refills.

It's kinda funny how often we all end up revolving around the same tasks and questions like this.

Hth,

Ken

Tony Lum tlum at flash.net wrote:
>
> Fellow Audinuts,
>
> Needed some new wiper blades for my 4kq and I only use Bosch.  But
> when I went to get refills, the 3 local auto parts stores I visited
> only had the whole arms and no refills.  Anybody else seeing this?