Yesterday I got to try this again. On my cross country trip last Fall my left Osram 70/65 bulb burned out near Portland. While my buddy's Roadglide spent the entire day at the HD Dealer getting a major engine malfunction repaired (compensator, $1,000 warrant repair), I tried many, many times to release the tabs of the wire connector as I had the oem bulbs in my topbox as spares for the trip. Could not get them off, so right before closing time I rode a mile or so from our motel for the night back to the Honda Dealer that had done a oil and spark plug change for me that morning. Took two mechanic 15 minutes to get the old bulb out...the connector tabs were being difficult, but also the connector itself was stuck on the bold connections. Eventually got it. But that was an oem dim bulb. So I put a new Osram in yesterday. Tabs released easily...go figure...and had no issue getting the bulb out . I had originally used the shimsto use and tried them again...kept falling off the bulb and I have fat hands so no fun. Put the bulb in without the tab and had to fiddle with the bail to get in on and the the rubber boot kept blocking one of the bulb connections..took about 30 minutes and a lot of frustration but the left is done. The right still has the first Osram, still going strong....new Osram de-tabbed and dielectric grease applied to connections and stored in topbox ready for deployment.