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2017 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1822805

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:BEARINGS/BUSHINGS filed June 30, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1822805 (ODI reference 11471886) concerns a 2017 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on June 30, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 28, 2022. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:internal:bearings/bushings, 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:automatic transmission:internal:bearings/bushings 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.

Vehicle
2017 FORD ESCAPE
Component
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:BEARINGS/BUSHINGS
State
Texas

Complaint Description

While idling in park vehicle transmission moved to reverse and backed away from me only to be restrained by a large bush. Rear bumper and exhaust damaged.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1822805
ODI Number 11471886
Date Filed June 30, 2022
Failure Date June 28, 2022
VIN 1FMCU0J90HU

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.