Not trying to be rude or anything but my answer is bullcrap to "those tabs pull right out." This winter, wasting valueable time instead of doing something productive, I tried to pull the tabs from either wiper because I always weclome alternative methods.

Based on my professional experaince, no one in the industry removes wipers in such fasion. And basaed on my presonal experaince with trying the alternative, I tried pulling the tabs out, with the wipers removed. If you cannot pull the tabs out with the wiper arm removed, it's safe to guess that you cannot pull the tabs out with wiper installed. If I really wanted to remove the tabs, I could have pulled harder, but I couldn't see tearing something up. The point is that it is supposed to be a slip out without issues, something that it's not.

Here's how the tool works.





Lifts right off--spent tenfold the time uploading one of the 2 pictures than I did with the r&i of the arm. You don't do a thing with the tab. The tool unloads the spring. Once the spring is unloaded, just like anything thats held in place by spring tensiton, it falls off in your hand. If you release the clip, you still have the spring loading against the arm, and the spring tension, not the tab, is what creats the problem with removing the arm.