2013 FORD ESCAPE Complaints

I HAVE 2013 FORD ESCAPE TITANIUM.I HAVE TO HAVE THE CAR TOWED INTO COUGHLIN FORD, JOHNSTOWN, OH TWICE. THIS IS WHAT THE CAR WAS DOING. VEHICLE BUCKED AND LURCHED AND WENT INTO LIMP MODE. THE CAR QUIT AND WOULD NOT RESTART. I CALLED FORD ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE AND HAD IT TOWED TO COUGHLIN FORD, JOHNSTOWN, OH. COUGHLIN CALLED AND SAID THAT THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE CAR. ON THE SECOND OCCASION THE CAR RAN VERY ROUGH, THE ENGINE FAULT LIGHT CAME ON. AGAIN IT DID THE SAME PROBLEM. COULD BARELY GET IT HOME. I WAS ON A BUSY HIGHWAY NEARLY BEING HIT BOTH TIMES. AGAIN THE CAR WAS TOWED TO COUGHLIN FORD. LATER WAS CALLED SAYING THEY COULD NOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. WE ARE SENIOR CITIZENS AND VERY AFRAID TO TAKE THE CAR ANYWHERE. TWICE WE HAVE HAD TO RENT A CAR. *JS

SINCE OUR 2013 FORD ESCAPE HAD THE FORD RECALL 13S12C AND 13S12D COMPLETED IN EARLY APRIL, THE VEHICLE FUEL MILEAGE HAS DROPPED BY AN AVERAGE OF 2 MPG. SOME AERODYNAMIC FEATURES OF THE VEHICLE WERE COMPROMISED UNDER THE RECALL TO HELP KEEP THE ENGINE FROM OVER HEATING AND STARTING A FIRE. ITS A GOOD THING WE LEASED THIS VEHICLE BECAUSE WE WILL BE RETURNING IT TO THE DEALER WHEN THE LEASE IS UP AND MOST LIKELY WILL NOT PURCHASE A FORD VEHICLE TO REPLACE IT. BUYER BEWARE OF 2013 FORD ESCAPES BUILT IN LATE 2012 AND EARLY 2013 WITH THE 1.6 LITER ECOBOOST ENGINE. *TR

VEHICLE BUCKED, LURCHED AND WENT INTO "LIMP MODE" AND WOULD NOT ACCELERATE OVER 40 MPH ON A 70 MPH INTERSTATE HIGHWAY (JUST AS I WAS TRYING TO ENTER THE HIGHWAY) ENGINE SERVICE LIGHT CAME ON AND I CALLED FORD ROADSIDE TO HAVE IT TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE SECOND TIME. THIS HAD HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY BUT I CANNOT FIND THE DATE - THAT TIME, I WAS ENTERING THE SAME INTERSTATE AND THE CAR DID THE SAME THING AND I "LIMPED" THE CAR TO THE DEALERSHIP (ONLY BEING ABLE TO DRIVE 40 MPH ON A 60 MPH FOUR LANE HIGHWAY.) ON 6/3/2014, THE CAR DID THE SAME THING AS I WAS ATTEMPTING TO ENTER INTERSTATE 35 (70 MPH) - AGAIN - BUCKING, LURCHING AND THEN GOING INTO THE "LIMP MODE". VERY SCARED TO DRIVE THIS CAR ANYWHERE AS I FEAR BEING HIT OR KILLED ON THE HIGHWAYS BECAUSE OF THE CARS INABILITY TO GO ANYWHERE NEAR THE SPEED LIMIT. THIS IS VERY MUCH A SAFETY ISSUE ESPECIALLY FOR THE AREA THAT I LIVE IN BECAUSE ALL THE ROADWAYS AROUND ME ARE AT LEAST 60 MPH OR HIGHER AND FORD HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. THE CAR'S ENGINE IS NOW IDLING VERY ROUGH, TOO, SO THERE ARE OTHER ISSUES WITH THIS ENGINE. *TR

MY 2013 FORD ESCAPE STARTED WITH A JOLTING, ROCKING AND ROUGH RIDE. THE ENGINE FAULT SERVICE NOW LIGHT CAME ON. IF YOU TURNED IT OFF AND RESTARTED IT, WOULD BE OK AND LIGHT WOULD NOT COME BACK ON. THIS STARTED AROUND 28,000 MILES. I TOOK TO FORD DEALER AND THEY KEPT FOR A DAY, HOOKED TO COMPUTER AND TOLD ME NOTHING WAS COMING UP AS WRONG. THEY TOOK IT OUT ON THE ROAD AND COULD NOT REPLICATE IT. BUT THEY DID FIX 5 RECALLS ON IT! 4 DAYS LATER WITH THE AIR CONDITIONER ON WHILE MAKING A LEFT TURN ON A BUSY ROAD, THE ENGINE WENT COMPLETELY DEAD. I NEARLY MISSED HAVING A CAR HIT ME BROADSIDE. THEN 5 DAYS LATER AS I WAS MAKING A RIGHT HAND TURN, THE ENGINE ONCE AGAIN COMPLETELY DIED. BY SOME VERY GOOD LUCK THE CAR BEHIND ME WAS ABLE TO GO AROUND ME. I HAD MY SMALL GRANDSON AND GRANDDAUGHTER IN THE BACK SEAT. THEY COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED HAD I BEEN REAR ENDED. I CALLED THE FORD DEALER AND WAS TOLD MY THE SERVICE MANAGER WHAT DID I EXPECT THEM TO DO SINCE IT KEEPS TELLING THEM NOTHING IS WRONG WHEN HOOKED TO THE COMPUTER ( IN A VERY SARCASTIC TONE). THEN AGAIN TODAY, THE ENGINE WENT COMPLETELY DEAD COMING OUT OF MY GRANDDAUGHTER SCHOOL IN FRONT OF A SCHOOL BUS!! I THINK FORD IS GOING TO WAIT UNTIL PEOPLE ACTUALLY DIE IN A AN ACCIDENT BEFORE EVEN ATTEMPTING TO TRY TO CORRECT THIS PROBLEM. I AM SO DISTRAUGHT THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. GM WAITED TO LONG AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM! *TR

I HAVE HAD 2 INCIDENTS WHERE MY POWER STEERING HAS GONE OUT. THE FIRST WAS AT ABOUT 25 MPH AND THE OTHER ABOUT 15-20 MPH. BOTH TIMES I GOT A MESSAGE ACROSS MY INFORMATION SCREEN THAT SAID "STEERING ASSIST FAULT". IT WAS REALLY HARD TO STEER THE VEHICLE I WAS ABLE TO STOP AND TURN OFF THE VEHICLE SINCE I WASN'T ON A BUSY STREET EITHER TIME. WHEN I RESTARTED THE VEHICLE THE MESSAGE WENT AWAY AND POWER STEERING WAS RESTORED AS IF THE COMPUTER JUST NEEDED TO RESTART. *TR

CAR STALLED WHILE DRIVING AT 35 MPH WITH NO WARNING, NEARLY CAUSING AN ACCIDENT. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 FORD ESCAPE. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 13V583000 (ENGINE) AND STATED THAT THE PARTS WERE NOT AVAILABLE. THE DEALER DID NOT GIVE A SPECIFIC DATE WHEN THE PARTS WOULD BECOME AVAILABLE. THE MANUFACTURER COULD NOT PROVIDE AN ESTIMATED DATE FOR WHEN THE CONTACT'S VEHICLE WOULD RECEIVE THE RECALL REPAIRS. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. UPDATED 08/14/2014*LJ

MY WIFE WAS PULLING OUT OF THE PARKING LOT AT WORK WHEN THE VEHICLE SWITCHED TO A "LOW POWER STATE" AS DESCRIBED BY THE DEALER (SPITTING, SPUTTERING SHAKING. BARELY RUNNING AS DESCRIBED BY MY WIFE) . SHE HAD GET TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD TURN THE CAR OFF THEN BACK ON TO TURN AROUND AND PULL BACK INTO THE LOT. I WENT AND GOT THE CAR. IT RAN OK. AND I CALLED FORD AND MADE AN APPOINTMENT TO GET IN . (4 DAY WAIT OVER HOLIDAY WEEKEND.) OVER THE WEEKEND IT DID IT ONCE MORE. THIS TIME LEAVING A SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT ON. BY THE TIME WE TOOK IT TO THE DEALER IT HAD GONE BACK OFF. THEY FOUND A FAULTY WIRE HARNESS. BUT SINCE THE BUMPER TO BUMPER WARRANTY IS OUT AND IT'S NOT COVERED BY POWER TRAIN. IT COST US $400 FOR THE REPAIR. *TR

AS I WAS SLOWING TO TURN LEFT THE CAR STALLED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSECTION. AND AGAIN, AS I STOPPED AT THE STOP SIGN, IT STALLED AGAIN. I TOOK THIS CAR INTO THE DEALER ( THIRD TIME) BECAUSE OF THE STALLING ISSUE AND I HAD JUST PICKED IT UP FROM THE DEALER SERVICE DEPARTMENT, (WHO SAID THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING) WHEN THE CAR STALLED A MILE AWAY FROM THE SHOP. IT WAS CLOSING TIME ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND,WHEN I PICKED IT UP, SO THEY WERE CLOSED BY THE TIME I TURNED AROUND. *TR

ENGINE FAULT, SERVICE ENGINE NOW. AUTOMOBILE LOSS OF POWER, STALL, ENGINE CUTS OFF COMPLETELY AT ANY GIVEN TIME. HOPEFULLY TO HELP SO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS SITE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. MY VEHICLE DID THIS FOR MANY MONTHS AND ALWAYS THE SAME ANSWER FROM FORD AND DEALERSHIP...NO ERROR CODE SO NOTHING IS WRONG. FINALLY IT HAPPENED AS I PULLED UP TO DEALERSHIP FOR OIL CHANGE. SO THEY COULD CLEARLY SEE WHAT THE CAR WAS DOING AND THERE WAS AN ERROR CODE. I LOOKS TO BE ADDRESSED BY FORD TSB 13-7-5 SUPERSEDED BY FORD TSB 13-12-12 WIRING HARNESS FAULT IN SIGNAL RETURN SPLICES. WHY HAS NHTSA AND FORD MOTOR COMPANY NOT NATIONALLY PUBLISHED THIS INFORMATION SO ALL DEALERSHIP UNDERSTAND (HOPEFULLY) THE SOLUTION TO THIS VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM. AMAZING SO MANY DEALERSHIP ARE NOT AWARE OF ALL FORD TSB'S. *TR