2019 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1737942
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NHTSA Complaint about WHEELS filed April 1, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1737942 (ODI reference 11405903) concerns a 2019 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on April 1, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 17, 2021. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as wheels, 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 wheels 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 2019 FORD ESCAPE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I JUST RECENTLY BOUGHT THIS VEHICLE AND NOW I HAVE A SMALL HOLE IN THE UPPER SIDEWALL OF THE TIRE. THE VEHICLE HAS A LOT OF TREAD STILL LEFT ON THE TIRES ( 9/32). THE HOLE IS TO SMALL TO BE FROM ANY FOREIGN OBJECT ON THE ROAD. I NOW HAVE TO BUY NEW TIRE EVEN THOUGH I SEE YOU HAVE OPEN RECALLS ON OTHER FORD ESCAPE MODELS FROM THE SAME YEAR. THAT RECALL FOR THOSE MODELS ARE FOR SMALL HOLES IN THE TIRE DUE TO AN INCORRECT HEATING PROCESS AT THE MANUFACTURER.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1737942 |
| ODI Number | 11405903 |
| Date Filed | April 1, 2021 |
| Failure Date | March 17, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0GD6KU |
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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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