And to resurrect this old thread, looking for some input from anyone else who may have heard a similar thing. It seems Toyota has stopped making these inserts somewhere within the last year. I bought some last summer and was looking to replace again, albeit at a different dealer than my normal one. When I went to this other dealer they told me these part numbers were no good anymore and that apparently some of these inserts were failing and causing damage to people's windshields, so Toyota stopped making and supplying the parts. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but I'll have to see if Subaru is still carrying the parts or if my usual dealer has anything different to say. If true, it's quite a bummer. I'm not going to pay 10 times the price of the insert to get a whole new wiper assembly to replace when the one that's there is perfectly fine and just needs a new rubber insert.
