2017 FORD ESCAPE — Complaint #2155148
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING filed December 8, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2155148 (ODI reference 11703656) concerns a 2017 FORD ESCAPE and was filed on December 8, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 21, 2025. The vehicle had 88,000 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 engine and engine cooling, 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 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 stated that while attempting to start the vehicle, the warning light for the engine overheating was illuminated. In addition, the temperature gauge indicated that the engine was overheating. The contact parked and turned off the vehicle. The vehicle was towed back to the used car dealer where the vehicle was purchased. The vehicle was diagnosed with coolant intrusion into the engine. The contact was informed that the engine needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. In addition, the contact was informed of an unknown recall with a similar failure; however, the VIN was not under recall. The contact stated that the failure was a known failure with the vehicle. The contact stated that the vehicle was purchased a year ago from a used car dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, and a case was filed. The failure mileage was approximately 88,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2155148 |
| ODI Number | 11703656 |
| Date Filed | December 8, 2025 |
| Failure Date | November 21, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FMCU9GDXHU |
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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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