2007 Ford Escape
This year drew an ordinary 393 complaints for a Ford Escape — the model's median is 1,198. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.8% of them mention pedal, against 5.1% across the model's other years.
Last year of its generation. This Ford Escape ran from 2001 to 2007, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 393 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,198 |
| Involving a crash | 16 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pedal — 16.8% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (3.3×).
- common — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: common, common problem, transfer, very common.
- stuck — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (2.5×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE POWER TAKEOFF UNIT, ALSO KNOWN AS THE POWER TAKEOFF ASSEMBLY, AND OR THE TRANSFER CASE HAS GONE BAD . FORD SAYS THAT THE PART COST $3700.. WHILE TALKING WITH SEVERAL REPAIR SHOPS IN MY AREA, THEY STATE THAT THIS IS A VERY COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS TVEHICLE.…
RECENTLY THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL STUCK ON MY 2007 FORD ESCAPE AND I HAD TO RUN INTO A CURB TO STOP THE VEHICLE, ITY CAUSED ABOUT $1500 DAMAGE TO THE CAR. NO PERSONNEL INJURIES WERE CAUSED. I HAD TO RUN THE CAR INTO A CURB TO KEEP FROM REAR ENDING ANOTHER VEHICLE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V606000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 14V526000 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15E045000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 10E043000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Escape was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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