307cc wiper refill change

The wipers needed changing on the car. I was near a Halfords so I had a look - they wanted about £40 for the whole blades.
I had a look at the refills and they didn't have the right length - the passenger side one is 28" which is huge, they only did 22" refills.
I went online and picked up picked up a pack of 2 28" refill rubbers on Amazon for about £5 delivered.


I removed the wiper from the arm but couldn't work out how to get the rubber out.
After checking a couple of Youtube videos I managed to remove the rubber but could not reassemble it with the new rubber. This was due to the length, it was impossible to pull all 28" of the new rubber into the casing using the methods shown.
I worked out how to do it in about 5 mins per wiper.

See Fig.1 for a diagram of the wiper blade after removal form the arm. 

Fig.1

 

Follow the steps below to fit the new rubbers.
Equipment: Pliers, scissors

• remove the blade from the wiper arm on the car by squeezing the plastic clips and sliding it. You may need a bit of force as it could be slightly seized.
• with pliers, squeeze gently as shown in Fig.2, this should loosen the central metal clip enough for it to come away from the blade.

Fig.2

 

  

• pull out the old rubber.
• with fingers, squeeze the metal strips near the ends as in Fig.3 to remove each of the end clips and completely disassemble the blade, there may be another 2 plastic clips along the blade to remove. 

Fig.3

• you should be left with 2 metal strips, 2 plastic end clips, 1 middle metal clip and 2 small plastic clips.
• make sure your new rubber is the correct length If not, just cut with scissors as a knife may not make a clean cut.
• lay one of the metal strips on a surface with good lighting.
• starting at one end carefully push the rubber onto the metal strip, once you get it started it is fairly easy to get it all the way on - make sure the "wiping" part of the rubber is on the inside of the curve.
• get the other metal strip and do the the same as in the previous step, this is slightly harder, you just have to make sure it is fully in the groove all the way along.
• Clip on the end clips - you may have to trim a bit of rubber depending on the shape of the rubber.
• to attach the central metal clip you should be able to force it on by hand depending on the hardness of the rubber, if not use light force with the pliers as too much may tear the rubber - make sure it is in the correct location or there is a chance the wipers may collide during use.
• reattach the small plastic clips if you have them.
• reattach the wiper to the car.

for the driver side you'll need to cut the new rubber down a few inches before step 7.