2009 Ford Escape Electrical System Problems
- 110
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.
Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.
Among these 110 stored complaint records:
- 2 indicate a crash
- 1 indicate injury
- 1 indicate fire
What owners report
- power steering · 36 records
- throttle body · 21 records
- steering wheel · 14 records
- side road · 10 records
- lost power · 10 records
- check engine · 9 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 60–100k mi | 33 |
| 30–60k mi | 24 |
| 100–150k mi | 23 |
| 150–400k mi | 15 |
| 1–30k mi | 5 |
Complaint records
Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.
Electrical System · Vehicle Speed Control
Escape was in for scheduled oil change. Upon leaving the authorized ford garage the vehicle started shaking and had little acceleration. I turned around and went back to the ford garage and had them look at it. The problem self corrected while at garage. They said that it was the throttle body and according to the computer, there had been another incident recorded while under previous ownership. Ford garage said to…
ODI 10501936
Electrical System · Engine · Power Train · Steering
While driving the vehicle i suddenly lost power and wrench and engine light came on. I was able to turn the car back on after a complete stop. Car was taken immediately to ford and they said nothing wrong with it and if it happens again bring it in. After multiple times on city streets and interstates which i feared for my life, the car would have no power and the engine would not accelerate when i would step on…
ODI 10564468
Electrical System · Engine And Engine Cooling
2009 ford escape. Consumer states vehicle died while driving *tgw the consumer stated a wrench symbol appeared on the dashboard. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. However, they were unable to find any codes and the vehicle passed all their tests. The dealer did fix a transmission leak and an air sensor. On january 5, 2012, the vehicle stalled again and the wrench symbol appeared again. The dealer was unable to…
ODI 10454117
Electrical System
On 7/17/2011 while driving from eden prairie, mn to home in hastings, mn while stopped at a traffic signal i, along with my wife and granddaughter, smelled a odor like burning plastic. I pulled into a nearby parking lot and we got out of the vehicle and i investigated the odor. I was able to determine that the odor was originating from the dash panel. Without dismantling anything i was unable to determine the exact…
ODI 10424452
Electrical System · Engine · Fuel System, Gasoline
I bought my car new in 2009. Summer of 2011, it started dying when stopped at red lights or any stops. It did this mostly when it was .25 tank of gas or less and the warmer the weather. I took it to three different mechanics and no one could figure out what was truly wrong. When they plugged it in all it says is emission problem. It happened so inconsistently it was hard to explain or diagnose. I had ford replace a…
ODI 10538627
Electrical System · Engine And Engine Cooling · Fuel System, Gasoline · Structure · Vehicle Speed Control
Letter from congressman brown on behalf of constituent regarding problems with her 2009 ford escape; she has an arbitration date on june 28 in columbus, ohio; please respond directly to the cleveland office *tgw the consumer stated the vehicle has been to the dealer on five occasions because the vehicle would jump/lunge while engaging it into drive or reverse. Within the last year, the vehicle began to lung/jump…
ODI 10408259
Electrical System · Engine And Engine Cooling
2009 ford escape. Consumer states problems with engine randomly shutting down. *tgw
ODI 10364630
Electrical System · Engine And Engine Cooling
Got home at 4pm, parked the car in the garage and turned it off. Walked inside and went to dinner at my in laws. About 3am my wife woke up to one of our babies crying. She went down to see what was going on. As she was walking through our kitchen she smelled something that was not right. She woke me up and we all left the house and went to her parents house across the street. We called the gas company and they came…
ODI 10365014
Electrical System · Engine
We bought the suv used at a chevrolet dealership in. June 2010,and in october we started having issues. The vehicle wouldn't start. We had it towed to a ford dealership where they had it for 10 days and couldn't. Find a problem. We drove it for approximately 7 months, 14,000 miles then it happened again ...we had it towed to another garage, and they had it a couple of days with no problems found.in june 2012 it…
ODI 10522462
Electrical System
Tl*the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated that when the battery in her vehicle stopped working she was unable to open the rear liftgate on the vehicle. She was also unable to gain access from the floor board in the rear seat. The dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 17,000.
ODI 10365298