Windshield Wipers Sound Effect

📝 Description

This Windshield Wipers sound effect is the back-and-forth sweep of blades across wet glass, rubber dragging with a faint squeak at each end of the stroke before the motor reverses. The steady two-beat rhythm is oddly hypnotic and places a listener inside a car in the rain almost instantly, without needing a single other cue. Because the pattern is so regular it also functions as a kind of clock, giving a static interior shot an unmistakable sense of ongoing time. It layers beautifully underneath rain recordings, and on its own the rhythmic squeak works for tension in a scene where two people are sitting in silence.

📊 Sound Details

Duration

0:04

Format

MP3

File Size

58 KB

Added

August 17, 2026

⚖️ License & Source

This sound is released under the CC0 license (public domain) — free to use in personal and commercial projects, no attribution required.

Original recording by RutgerMuller via Freesound. View original source →