Ok, so I just replaced my windshield wipers cause I thought they were bad but the driver side is still giving me problems. The wiper blade is barely touching the glass (really only touching in one small spot) and it's not wiping anything off. What's up with this?

 

i would say that the arm is bent or the spring in the arm is bad

 

The arm was just bent, I bent it back but I'm buying new ones just to be sure (ok and mine are rusty). Now that I think about it I probably bent it when I was clearing snow from under them
Thanks
Alex

 

I'm having the same exact problem it's the drivers side it wipes as if it has a bad wiper. The wipers are new , the passenger side wipes nicely I checked the spring , looks good to me . Now when you bent the arm you bent it inward towards the glass correct?

 

Make sure that the wiper arm base is pushed all the way down on the splined post.

 

Splinded post , ok I'm not sure what that is that where the arm ends ? A pic would help

 

Splinded post , ok I'm not sure what that is that where the arm ends ? A pic would help a lot if you can post one

 

Its the round thing that sticks out of the cowl that the base of the wiper blade arm is pushed onto. Sometime the arm slides up and doesn't apply the pressure to the arm which then doesn't apply pressure to the blade so it doesn't wipe like it should. Easy check, just push down on the base at the cowl. I've had that problem on mine in the past.