2017 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1820721
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM filed June 21, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1820721 (ODI reference 11470335) concerns a 2017 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on June 21, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 4, 2022. The vehicle had 60,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin 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: 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 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 2017 FORD ESCAPE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Ford Escape. The contact's wife was driving approximately 35 MPH, the vehicle started shaking and vibrating and was difficult to steer. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact had taken the vehicle to a local dealer where it was diagnosed that the vehicle had coolant leak into the cylinders. The dealer determined that the engine had to be replaced and related the failure to TSB 19-2208: 2.0 L Eco Boost - Coolant in Cylinders, White Exhaust Smoke. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 60,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1820721 |
| ODI Number | 11470335 |
| Date Filed | June 21, 2022 |
| Failure Date | June 4, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0JD7HU |
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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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