I have installed two different brands of wipers on my 2002 SS and they work great at first but then on the passenger side it skips the center of the blade area when its 1/2 way up the windshield. It only seems to happen in colder weather warmer I never had an issue. Wiper arm tension seems good. I wonder if our cars don't like the beam style wipers and want the old frame style from years past. I also wonder since the wipers park up off the windshield if that makes the beam wipers arch and not want to remain flat when they are turned on. I have used Boshe brand and then some lesser quality beam wipers and still no luck when it's cold. Driver side works fine, no issues with either.

 

You might want to order the Winter Blades they are heavier and have a solid beam.

 

I quite caring about the wiper blades I use on my daily driver. If they fit and clean the window, that is good enough for me. Ultimately, I find cheap ones tend to last about as good as expensive ones (and if they don't, they were cheap enough to not loose sleep about it).

 

I am a firm believer of you get what you pay for in automotive parts. There is some things I do not go cheap with. I learned my lesson with cheap off brand fuel pumps that don't last. My GMC Sierra does not work well with cheap wiper blades it skips across the windshield done it after I replaced the first OEM set, I have always gotten the OEM blades for it and never had an issue. Like I stated earlier it doesn't seem to matter if it is the high dollar brand ones or cheap ones it doesn't wipe the windshield very well in colder weather on the passenger side, That is why I am suspecting it needs the old frame style wiper blades. I was just curious to see if anyone else ran into this issue.

 

I won't disagree, you do get what you pay for and I too have things I explicitly go after quality. My experience with wipe blades on my daily is what I mentioned. The cheap ones (like a brand called SIMONZ as an example) do fine clearing my windshield. they last about as long as the higher cost ones. And even if say they have a slightly shorter lifespan than a higher cost blade, the cost savings justifies it.
Now, to your point, if I found the blades to "skip" or the life was truly short or some other problem, I would quit using those ones and they go on the "do not fly" list.

I have done blades that were supposed higher quality and allowed you to change the actual rubber blade itself, others claiming about a microedge, the old "dual" blades and a host of others over years of driving. I never found one that I fell in love with to justify the higher cost.

 

I replaced the wipers with Anco frame type wipers and no skipping issues. Apparently my car In the winter doesn’t like the beam blades.