2017 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1558700
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558700 (ODI reference 11196912) concerns a 2017 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 18, 2018. The vehicle had 20,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same FORD ESCAPE cohort independently describe similar engine failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2017 FORD ESCAPE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHEN ACCELERATING ON THE HIGHWAY MY VEHICLE STARTED SHAKING UNCONTROLLABLY. IT FELT LIKE THE ENGINE WAS FAILING. I WAS UNABLE TO ACCELERATE WITHOUT IT SHAKING. I COULD MAINTAIN A SPEED OF ABOUT 50MPH WITHOUT THE SHAKING. I THOUGHT MAYBE THE AIR CONDITIONING HAD MALFUNCTIONED AND WAS TAKING TOO MUCH POWER FROM THE ENGINE SO I TURNED IT OFF, BUT THAT DIDN'T HELP THE ISSUE. MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT WAS BLINKING ON AND OFF. IT WAS VERY SCARY. ITS HAPPENED TWICE. BUT THERE WAS NO INDICATION ON MY APP THAT ANYTHING HAPPENED EXCEPT FOR A MISFIRE? EITHER WAY VERY SCARY ON THE HIGHWAY WHEN YOU'RE WITH YOUR 3 YEAR OLD.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558700 |
| ODI Number | 11196912 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | August 18, 2018 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0GD5HU |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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