2014 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1797277
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:SHIFT LINKAGE/CABLE/ROD filed February 23, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1797277 (ODI reference 11453610) concerns a 2014 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on February 23, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 22, 2022. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:shift linkage/cable/rod, 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 power train:shift linkage/cable/rod 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
The contact owns a 2014 Ford Escape. The contact stated while attempting to park the vehicle the gear shifter cable fractured making it difficult to safely park the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer however, the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 100,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1797277 |
| ODI Number | 11453610 |
| Date Filed | February 23, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 22, 2022 |
| 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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