[tooski]

Wow. I feel lucky with my 2006 Fusion. The first brake job was the rears at 15,000 km. Broke a torx allen key taking the retaining screws out. Then maybe 25 whacks with a 3 lb sledge to get the rotors off. Wire wheeled the rust off and never seized all the contact areas. Also never seized all the contact areas of the new rotor. It took me 4 brake jobs on the rear within 100k km to figure out that the return spring on the emerg/parking cable wasn't retracting the pads enough to prevent premature wear. I recall doing the rust cleaning/never seize on the fronts after fighting to get the rotors off. But mine were relatively easy compared to what I read here. Each subsequent brake job, even with the never seize, I still had to hammer on the rotors, but just a bit.