just took off my wiper arms and repainted them, put them back on, but cant for the life of me get my damn wipers back on. whats the trick here? (never changed the wipers before, so i dont know how there supposed to go on...but they came off pretty damn easily)

 

Did you take off the whole assembly (pop the caps, unscrew the bolts, and pull up)? If you did, you need to push really hard on the base of the arm when putting back into the socket. If you look real close, there are a lot of grooves on the bolt you put the wipers back on. Just push hard on the arms and they should go back on...unless you got paint in the screwholes....then you might be in some trouble.

 

yeah I'm hoping you mean the arms and not the actual wipers. If it's the wipers then, wow. Entire arm...then follow the other post.

 

no i got the arms on. i mean the actual wipers. haha, i know...i should know how to do it. i mean, they just slid right off so i figured theyed just slide back on...but i cant get the damn things on. (never done it before.) i looked in the manual but it only shows removal. which was easy to figure out.

 

Usually you rotate the wiper so the it is going parallel with the wiper arm, make sure you have the right adapter on the wiper and then they just just slide together.

 

lol i had more trouble getting the originals off than putting the new ones on. Make sure that you bought ones that are j-hook compatible.

 

well, im putting the ones there were on there back on...so they should be the right adapters. theyre rain-x if it matters...does sliding them back on take a decent amout of force? im too tired/lazy to do it now so ill do try my luck again in the AM

 

Yes, sometimes it takes a good amount of force. Just push hard until it clicks.

 

I bought the rain-x ones when i did my wipers a few weeks ago and you did need to apply a good amount of force to get them in (you'll hear the click). Push hard and I wouldnt be afraid of breaking them.

 

alright cool, i just woke up so ill go try again in a few minutes

 

alright got em on. that was way to easy. my problem was there was a little clip i had to lift up in order for it to slide on, which i didnt see right away. so i was pushing and pushing and it just wouldnt go on.

 

hahaha rookie mistakes

 

wiper rookie atleast...

haha...its always the easy stuff that gets me