Rear wiper replacement - how to get wiper blade off?

[lefkonj]

It's been 18k miles so time to replace the wipers. Front were pretty straight forward but I can't get the back blade off. I don't want to break it and hear it from the wife. Is there a trick I am missing here? I pull the arm away from the glass and push the blade back towards to glass, nothing.

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[oskeei]

There is an older post discussing this. I just replaced mine last week so fresh in my memory.

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[lefkonj]

Should be able to snap it off without taking off the bolt. Just can't seem to get it done. Front blades done once I saw the push piece to release the arm. Don't want to waste a mobile service for this.

 

[oskeei]

You should at least loosen the bolt, as it's a tight fit between the wiper arm and blade. I actually had to grind a little bit off (1mm ish) off my 3rd party blade as the arm didn't have enough clearance to hook into the blade. Not sure I would have been able to pull the Rivian blade off arm without the extra clearance by loosening the bolt. Pulling was much harder than putting in the new blade.

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