2014 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1660452
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM filed April 28, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1660452 (ODI reference 11322514) concerns a 2014 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on April 28, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 21, 2020. The vehicle had 155,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:cooling system, 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: yes, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 and engine cooling:cooling system 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 2014 FORD ESCAPE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FORD ESCAPE. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING AT UNKNOWN SPEEDS, THE VEHICLE UNEXPECTEDLY STARTED TO RELEASE ODORS OF OIL AND SMOKE WAS SEEN COMING FROM THE UNDERNEATH THE HOOD. THE VEHICLE'S WARNING MESSAGE INSTRUCTED THE CONTACT TO PULL OVER. THE CONTACT OPENED THE HOOD AND NOTICED SMOKE AND DISCOVERED THE COOLANT RESERVOIR WAS EMPTY. THE CONTACT STATED THAT COOLANT WAS ADDED TO THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO LICCARDI FORD, INC. (1615 US-22 WATCHUNG, NJ 07069) FOR DIAGNOSES AND REPAIRS. THE CONTACT STATED THAT DEALER INFORMED HER THAT THE FAILURE WAS RELATED TO A RECALL. THE CONTACT STATED THE DEALER INFORMED HER THE COOLANT SENSORS WAS REPAIRED HOWEVER, THE CONTACT STATED THAT SHE CHECKED THE COOLANT RESERVOIR AND DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS NO COOLANT IN THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE SENSORS FAILED TO WARN OF LOW OR NO COOLANT LEVEL. THE CONTACT STATED THE FAILURE WAS DUE TO THE RECALL WHICH THE VIN WAS INCLUDED IN AND SERVICED UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBE
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1660452 |
| ODI Number | 11322514 |
| Date Filed | April 28, 2020 |
| Failure Date | April 21, 2020 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0GX8EU |
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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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