Oh, as a side note, skip the rain-x blade, I tried one on one of my w124 wagons, and pulled it off a day later and threw it in the trash. Something about the shape of the blade didn't work well with the sweep of the wiper and streaked horribly in one direction, the other was fine. So I suppose if you're fine with only seeing 50% of the time it'd be fine. Really though, save your money and skip the rain-x wiper.

I haven't found a beam type blade that works well full-stop. They don't contour as well as the frame type do so if you have a sharply curved window, forget about it wiping the full path.

The biggest issue with them though is their lack of torsional stability. Get much over 20" and the tips start to wobble. My Honda takes a 30" blade on the driver's side and a beam style is completely useless on it. The whole bottom 1/3 of the blade just wobbles. Standard blades are perfect on it AND cheaper!

I found that the no name brand beam type wipers worked really well on my w126 and w123 cars, however nothing else I have owned seems to like them.

Even my dd, which is a 2003 V70 at the moment, which has quite a flat windshield, doesn't like them. The streaked like crazy! Slapped on a set of direct connects and all issues were solved.....