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2020 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #1936642

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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS filed October 18, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1936642 (ODI reference 11550662) concerns a 2020 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on October 18, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 11, 2023. The vehicle had 20,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:power window devices and controls, 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 visibility:power window devices and controls 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 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2020 FORD ESCAPE
Component
VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
State
Pennsylvania
Mileage
20,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2020 Ford Escape. The contact stated that the driver-side door's hinge had disconnected making the door difficult to manage. The door emits a loud clunking noise when being opened and closed. The window had also become inoperable and failed to go down past a certain point. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer who diagnosed that the door needed to be replaced. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 20,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1936642
ODI Number 11550662
Date Filed October 18, 2023
Failure Date October 11, 2023
VIN 1FMCU9F67LU

Similar VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS Complaints for 2020 FORD ESCAPE

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