2015 Ford Escape
This year drew an ordinary 1,057 complaints for a Ford Escape — the model's median is 1,198. What they were about is the unusual part: 31.3% of them mention camera, against 12% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Ford Escape, which began in 2013 and ran to 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,057 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,198 |
| Involving a crash | 29 |
| Involving a fire | 19 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- camera — 31.3% of this year's complaints, against 12% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: camera, reverse, displayed, prevention.
- shifter — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: shifter, cable, bushing, shifter cable.
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
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V695000 (BACK OVER PREVENTION). However, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The contact stated that the rear-view camera displayed a distorted image or a black screen while the vehicle was in revers…
while in reverse(R), the rearview camera displayed either a blank, distorted, or a blue screen. The contact then received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V695000 (Back Over Prevention); however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V472000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V643000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 15V406000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15V436000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 20V331000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 22V254000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 22V413000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V695000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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