2020 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID — Complaint #1875688
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:BODY CONTROL MODULE:SOFTWARE filed February 23, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1875688 (ODI reference 11508798) concerns a 2020 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID and was filed on February 23, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 9, 2023. The vehicle had 140,800 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:body control module:software, 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 HYBRID cohort independently describe similar electrical system:body control module:software 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 2020 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2020 Ford Escape. The contact stated while having an annual inspection on the vehicle, the inspector informed her that the computer was not reading the vehicle and advised her to contact the dealer. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the dealer stated that an unknown module needed to be updated. The contact was unsure of what module needed to be updated. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted, and the manufacturer advised her to file a complaint with the NHTSA Hotline. The failure mileage was 140,800.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1875688 |
| ODI Number | 11508798 |
| Date Filed | February 23, 2023 |
| Failure Date | February 9, 2023 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0DZ3LU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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