The wiper blades have been **** on my active since the day I bought the car (56 plate, rental company as previous owner) so just naturally assumed they'd worn out as the car was a year old. They streak and generally make driving in the rain a bit of a pain in the ass.

Now, I test drove a 57 plate GPS with 100 miles on the clock a few weeks ago, and the sales man (who initially drove it with me as a passenger) put the washer jets on and wiped the screen.

Wipers completely streaked all over the screen, on a practically brand new car..

Co-incidence? Anyone else have poor wipers on GP?

Wiper on my GP are the best I've ever encountered. I replaced the original ones with some official blades from shop4parts.co.uk about 2 months ago as the original ones seemed to wear a bit over winter.
I'd suggest buying new blades and also try giving the windscreen a proper clean with fast glass or something in case its grease or something on the screen itself.

Probably just grease on your windscreen. Try rubbing vinegar down the blades and giving the windscreen a really good clean with proper glass cleaner to get all the grime off.

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Mine arnt the best, streaking etc, but thats simply because I wash the car often and use a wax based car shampoo, which puts a film on the screen which makes the water run off. Its simply going to be something like that, it was the same on my Focus.