JamesAA

i can do that. what would that determine?

Thank you very much for the advice. It happens every single time I reverse, but does seem worse when reversing for the 1st time after the car has been parked.

I have a 2010 and there's a current youtube vid about the ease of replacing the 14" rear windshield wiper. The guy has his 11 year old nephew do it on the video lol. Well I had to use a great deal of force (and I'm a strong guy). The wiper finally came off but it broke in half. Anyway I snapped the new on one. That wasn't hard. But just to check I wanted to see if perhaps this new blade would come off as easily as they guy did in the video. Nope! It's on REALLY good, and I'm afraid to push too hard in fear of breaking the new blade. I concluded that my technique must be improper. Has anyone else replaced this and if so was did it require a lot of force for you too? Or did it snap right off pretty easily? Thanks

Car has about 45k miles on it. Started noticing light squeeking when braking in reverse a few months back. Had brake pads replaced in March by a local mechanic (not at Ford). He said rotors were fine. For a few days the car was fine. Then it started squeeking again (when braking in reverse). Over the weeks it gradually got worse and worse. Now it is embarassingly loud. Sounds awful. Never squeeks while moving forward. Any clues???? Thanks