2017 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1815147
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BACK UP LIGHTS filed May 27, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1815147 (ODI reference 11466437) concerns a 2017 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on May 27, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 22, 2022. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:back up lights, 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 exterior lighting:back up lights 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
The body control module failed on a main road at night. My inside lights and dash lights emergency flasher along with the outside lights shut off. The car behind me had to swerve around me to keep from hitting me. My vehicle was not seen by the other drivers and was almost hit several times. Luckily I coasted to a light and made a sweeping turn onto a wider shoulder area of the road. It was towed to a shop but they were not able to do anything with the vehicle do I had it towed to a Ford dealership. It was almost 30 days before I got my vehicle back. Apparently there is a shortage of body control modules. I received no warning lights at all. Everything inside the vehicle flashed and then the car and electrical just shut off. Prior to that incident I had not had any other issues with the vehicle. The drivers side seat module had to be replaced as well.it cost 1005.38 for the body control module to be replaced and 786.00 for the seat module to be replaced.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1815147 |
| ODI Number | 11466437 |
| Date Filed | May 27, 2022 |
| Failure Date | April 22, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0J90HU |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BACK UP LIGHTS Complaints for 2017 FORD ESCAPE
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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