writ­ten 7/13/26, updat­ed 7/13/26

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Overview

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Materials and Cost

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ITEM	PRICE
Bosch Icon Beam 24″ & 20″ OE (set of 2)	$45.04 (Ama­zon)
Motor­craft Rear Blade 12″ — WW1207A	$23.38 (Ford)
Or if you’d like to stick with OEM:
Motor­craft Wiper Blades 24″ - WW2432A Motor­craft Wiper Blades 20″ — WW2052A	~$23* (Ford) ~$23* (Ford)

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Time and Effort

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Process

Note: I rec­om­mend hav­ing 1–2 microfiber cloths handy to help clean the wind­shield under the wipers, but also to rest the wiper arm on so it does­n’t crash down onto the wind­shield. Glass clean­er could be help­ful, too

Front

• The Offi­cial­ly Cor­rect Way: Place Arms in Ser­vice Posi­tion — Accord­ing to the own­er’s man­u­al, place the wipers in the ser­vice posi­tion: turn the car on to acces­so­ry mode, flip on the wipers, then turn the car off when the arms are in the high­est posi­tion

• Take blades out of their pack­ag­ing and note the hard­ware to make sure it’s cor­rect for the wiper arm, or to see if you need an adapter (most wiper blades come with adapters. These Bosch Icons did, but I did­n’t need them)

• Look at the car’s wiper blade attach­ment

• Press the Square But­ton with one hand, while grasp­ing the left rec­tan­gu­lar part and Pull to the Left (might have to wig­gle it a lit­tle as you pull)

• Keep pulling until the entire blade comes out

Note: Either use a fold­ed microfiber cloth or the card­board pack­ag­ing of the wiper blade to rest under­neath the wiper arm

Com­par­isons (Bosch Icon OE vs Motor­craft OE)

• Do it back­wards: line up the new blade with the wiper arm and push in until it clicks and locks into place

• Boom! Done! Very easy!

• Repeat on the oth­er side!

Old Removal

New Replace­ment

Front Wiper Replace­ment: COMPLETE!

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Rear

• First off, let’s inspect the replace­ment blade

• Pick up the wiper arm as far as it will let you go

Warn­ing: Too much power/pressure can break the arm at the heel of the assem­bly!!

• Grasp the Wiper Arm with your left hand, and Grasp the Wiper Blade with your right hand, and Pull Firm­ly but Care­ful­ly to the RIGHT, away from the arm until you hear a *Click*

• Now. This can be the hard part depend­ing on how tight it’s in there: To remove the blade, Tilt it as Far as it Will Go (I was able to do this both ways… maybe it’s worn)

Warn­ing: Again, too much goril­la-ing can break the wiper arm! I actu­al­ly man­aged to break the entire replace­ment blade by forc­ing it too hard. Lucky the wiper arm is… okay…? As far as I know

As you can see, I was able to do this with just one hand. Mind you, the blade is the one orig­i­nal to the car, so it could just be weath­ered

• Place a fold­ed microfiber cloth under­neath the wiper arm

• To replace the blade, first make sure the blade is Ori­ent­ed the Cor­rect Direc­tion (Open­ing to the left, and loop part to the right. That’s why you had to pull right to loosen it)

• Do it back­wards: Line up the Cross­bar of the wiper arm with the open­ing of the replace­ment blade and Press Upwards until you hear a *Click,* then grasp and Push to the LEFT until it slides in

Visu­al of the under­side of the arm

• Clean off the wind­shield under­neath and that’s it!

Rear Wiper Replace­ment: COMPLETE!!

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Notes

7/13/2026: I man­aged to break the new replace­ment blade by being too force­ful and am lucky that I did­n’t ful­ly break the arm alto­geth­er. Because I did that, though, I got to see how the wiper is put togeth­er and turns out it’s just slid on there. I actu­al­ly installed it again, but when I went to remove it, the attach­ment came off alto­geth­er, and I need­ed to use pli­ers (not the long ones, those could­n’t grasp it) to push the dis­placed attach­ment off the wiper arm. End­ed up reusing the old blade because it works just fine, and used super­glue on the new one in case I want to try again in the future.

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