Trico Chill 37-225 Extreme Weather Wiper Blade

Working good snow not plugging up the wipers.

Don’t have to worry about blade getting iced up and heavy duty enough to get the windshield clean of snow and ice

We’ve been buying these for years – not the Trico’s but the booted blades and I really couldn’t say which brand we would use from year to year and I’ve worked for 3 different companies in that time and these are a godsend for going speeds over 45 on the interstate with wet snow that freezes to the windshield, road muck getting misted up, and whatever. I actually broke two at once and bought these to replace them, but had one left with a summer blade on the passenger side of this 2019 Kenwroth T680 I’ve been driving, and I just shake my head consistently cause I couldn’t drive at speed without these. ….The faster you go in that transitional icy temperature right around freezing, the worse the windshield problems become. So these are indespensible!!
That being said, I’d like to slam Trico down like a mug of coffee breaking off the handle….I’m mad at the quality on this years blades or them altogether since I don’t know if this is a lot problem or their overall build quality. But we bought a whole fleets worth of Chill Blades and they are all breaking!!!
The thing I noticed is the center pin gets held on with these wee tiny little knib like prongs, little things I have to take off my glasses to see up close and say outloud, how in the (omitted) do they really expect that to stay in there followed by some more wallowing cursing. It’s ridiculous!
They hold in place just fine. The problem comes when you roll down the windkw to clear Ice beads that forms under the blade and lift it off the window and you’re lifting it uo while it’s wiping and slapping it down to break them off and that (omitted, omitted) thing comes compketely off and lands in the cowl, this last time putting a groove in the windiw from the wiper arm of a new $430 windhsield I just replaced, talk about mad!!!
So being the fixit guy I am, I am going to suggest others do this like I did. I REMOVED the wiper clip entirely and replaced it with a solid center and used a small machine screw and nylon locking nut as the center pin, then drill the wiper arm and added in a buttonhead stainless screw into that solid center. Since I read and write directions better than most drivers I won’t post pictures or give instructions past that for having been harassed for so many years by senior drivers that can’t work a truck but sure can work your job out from under you out of spite and jealousy. …anyways, HDPE from Polymersan on Amazon amkes a good center material, and if your smart, get some leftover decking and cut a small piece out of that as I use it sometimes in place of HDPE. Make sure you use a really small center machine screw and you’ll have to open up the hole a small bit. The hole is offset to the loop area versus the middle so the wiper changes position like 1/4″ but doesn’t affect it’s sweep area really at all. And leave it a hair lose so it lays over a tad – you either understand this or you don’t, but watch the passenger side one and your new modified one of the right for that intended shifting built in slop, they aren’t meant to be stiff.
Hope this helps someone. Funny how you never hear stuff like this on the Truckers Forums!

Haven’t used in the weather yet and only have one installed as the retaining clip broke during install. The one I did get installed worked very well when I used with the washer cycle. Now I need to find how to order a new one…..
Update: I just bought another whole blade here to have a spare. While driving on the freeway the blade sheered off. The main pin came out of the attach point. It made a loud noise as the arm smacked the windshield and scared everyone. No more tricos for me.

This is a product that does what it is advertised to do.

Blades work good. A little tight to install , but do fit.

Good quality wiper blade