2017 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1907492
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL filed July 6, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1907492 (ODI reference 11530634) concerns a 2017 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on July 6, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2020. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:electrical, 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 equipment:electrical 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
2017 FORD ESCAPE- Consumer states: " I would like to lodge a safety hazard complaint with N.H.T.S.A. Prompt resolution is requested. I purchased this vehicle from Peoria Ford in December 2018. Unfortunately, this vehicle has had an ongoing electrical safety issue and Peoria Ford has failed to properly address the concern. The issue is, while driving down the road intermittently the door open and not park indication comes on, then all the electronics start flashing randomly, the radio and A/C start working intermittently then stop altogether, and all electronics go out, everything out, no lights, no dash indications, nothing. Essentially, it just became a Model A. The mechanical functions keep working, but no headlights no turn signals, (at night), no wipers, no dash indications everything dead, no speedometer, no interior lights, nothing just a dumb vehicle barreling down the road. Again, this is intermittent, it might happen, then it might not. This vehicle is a danger to drive, howev
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1907492 |
| ODI Number | 11530634 |
| Date Filed | July 6, 2023 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2020 |
| VIN | 1FMCU0F71HU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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