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When you start getting angry, and you stop caring that you may accidentally break something by applying too much force; when you let loose the ferocious power within you... that is sometimes what it takes, to get things done.

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If you need to use force to remove the wiper blades you are doing something wrong. The blades should be very simple to remove and require little or no force, especially not a battery terminal puller. Purchase a new blade first and you can better figure out how and where the old one comes off the arm. Sometimes the right and left blades are a different size, measure each blade; go to an autoparts store and tell them what you want. They might even give you some instruction. It doesn't take more than a few seconds to remove and install a new one.

It wasn't the blades I was trying to remove, but rather the whole wiper arms... I had to remove them in order to get the plastic cowl off, since they stick up through holes in the cowl. I did eventually manage it, one side with the batter terminal puller, and the other with an angry yank :-)

Although one time I even had a heck of a time removing one of the blades... the clip part may have fallen off, and it was stuck in, and I couldn't figure any way to get it out other than cutting it in the middle and then pulling the pieces out.

But anyway, I got the wiper arms off and the cowl off, and didn't find anything that looked very suspiciously like it might be causing a leak, so I just cleaned the crud out of there, and then replaced everything, and sealed the cowl with silicone up at the top where it had warped a bit and wasn't fitting tight against the windshield. So perhaps that will help, and perhaps not. I also procured a big sponge :)

Oh, and the reason why I thought the leak might be coming from there was because this leak is a known problem for my model car, and this page, and this page mentioned the cowl/air-inlet screen.