Can't remove the wiper arm

[Skyline]

Originally Posted by upallnight

You do know that you can just take off the wiper and renew them with new wiper and you don't have to replace the entire arm.

When I got our X5, the wiper arms were not in the proper place. Apparantly in an attempt to fix the racket the wipers were making, some prior hack mechanc had taken the arms off, messed with the mechanism, and put them back in the wrong position. I found the wiper motor ready to fall off. Once that was tightened, the wipers worked perfectly...but the arms needed to be repositioned. It's very easy to put them on in the wrong spot for some reason.

Also, it is highly likely that anytime the windshield gets replaced, the arms would get removed then.