2013 Ford Escape Electrical System Problems
- 224
- 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 224 stored complaint records:
- 3 indicate a crash
- 6 indicate injury
- 13 indicate fire
What owners report
- engine light · 16 records
- check engine · 14 records
- light came · 11 records
- several times · 9 records
- wiring harness · 9 records
- power steering · 8 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 1–30k mi | 66 |
| 60–100k mi | 62 |
| 30–60k mi | 53 |
| 100–150k mi | 18 |
| 150–400k mi | 4 |
Complaint records
Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.
Electrical System
My 2013 ford escape sel is equipped with an intelligent key system. This key allows the driver to unlock the car by simply touching the door handle. The system also includes a feature that prevents the doors from locking or unlocks the doors immediately if keys are left inside the car without a driver or passenger present. The car also includes a auto-locking feature that is supposed to lock all doors only when the…
ODI 10747652
Electrical System · Engine · Vehicle Speed Control
Tl- the contact owns a 2013 ford escape. The contact stated that the cruise control failed to engage and disengage intermittently. The contact experienced an electrical short with the radio shorting out as well. The vehicle stalled multiple times and the contact had to make several attempts to restart the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer who replaced the wiring harness and the failure recurred.…
ODI 10630776
Electrical System
Vehicle loses power (check engine, service engine, and battery lights illuminated) while driving. Battery has been changed out by the dealership, but the problem continues on a daily basis. Sometimes the vehicle restarts, but the majority of the time, i have to get the vehicle jumped off. I have lost power on the highway as well on busy urban streets. The dealership refuses to acknowledge that there is a serious…
ODI 10628058
Electrical System · Engine
While driving the engine fault light came on. The car began to lurch when changing gears almost causing an accident. Once car turned off and turned back on the fault cleared and the engine ran smooth. Took the car to the ford store san leandro (ca). Like the similar complaints on this website they could not find record on the car's computer and could not replicate the problem. Therefore i go away very concerned…
ODI 10616514
Electrical System
The ford escape is equipped with an intelligent key system. This key allows the driver to unlock the car by simply touching the door handle. The system also includes a feature that prevents the doors from locking or unlocks the doors immediately if keys are left inside the car without a driver or passenger present. This ostensibly makes it impossible for a driver to lock their keys inside the car. The car also…
1 injury
ODI 10724718
Electrical System · Engine · Fuel System, Gasoline
Vehicle towed to ford on 7/3/14 for fuel leak. Also told ford that fuel range consumption gauge was not working right. Ford was unable to verify fuel leak concern but did the 13s12 overheating and 14s03 handle recalls. On 7/19/14 low coolant light came on. Called ford and they said that it was an air pocket in the coolant system and to add distilled water and drive it to ford. The dealership drained the coolant,…
ODI 10621519
Electrical System
Since july 1,2014 my 2013 ford escape has stalled 3 additional times for a total of 4 times. Twice in two days. The first two while standing still at a light, the last 2 while slowing down to make a turn, 2nd time 07-08-2014, 3rd 07-20-2014 and 4th today 07-22-2014. The car was taken to blue springs ford in blue springs mo on monday 07-14-2014 was informed the part had to be ordered and would be in about 7 to 10…
ODI 10615519
Electrical System · Engine · Power Train
On 5/31/14, upon starting vehicle (2.0 l, sel), vehicle running rough, sputtering, lurching when accelerator was depressed, etc. Message on dash screen stated "engine fault - service now". Drove car approximately 8 miles to a ford dealer i was not familiar with. Turned car off but then decided to move car. Started car, all issues disappeared, so i left and drove car 35 miles to my home with no issues. Drove car…
ODI 10611246
Electrical System
My wife was pulling out of the parking lot at work when the vehicle switched to a "low power state" as described by the dealer (spitting, sputtering shaking. Barely running as described by my wife) . She had get to the side of the road turn the car off then back on to turn around and pull back into the lot. I went and got the car. It ran ok. And i called ford and made an appointment to get in . (4 day wait over…
ODI 10594642
Electrical System · Steering
I have had 2 incidents where my power steering has gone out. The first was at about 25 mph and the other about 15-20 mph. Both times i got a message across my information screen that said "steering assist fault". It was really hard to steer the vehicle i was able to stop and turn off the vehicle since i wasn't on a busy street either time. When i restarted the vehicle the message went away and power steering was…
ODI 10595628
Electrical System · Engine
While turning at a speed of approximately 5 mph the car stalled causing the loss of power steering and power brakes. This was the third incident of the car stalling. "williamsburg ford and preowned" serviced the car today and found no fault codes. Claim that they can not service the car without ford's authorization via "recall". This vehicle is potentially dangerous once a stall occurs to a driver from side or rear…
ODI 10592032
Electrical System
Recall 13v583 for the 1.6l eng fire was accomplished 05-12-14.i drove the escape home and noticed the lower left corner of the trip display page,the hours driven was replaced with mpg display. The numbers kept recalculating a set of numbers every second ,this continued as long as engine is running.the upper right corner of trip page also has mpg which is the normal location from day one.but now counts down in tenths…
ODI 10588134
Electrical System · Engine
First occurrence was nearly three months ago. 2013 ford escape as repeatedly, with increasing frequency but randomly lost power and with the engine shutting off. Car has lost engine power and with no ability to accelerate while driving speeds up to 40 mph. It has occurred while approaching a stop, sitting at a stop sign, accelerating post stop, turning left, turning right and while navigating around-about and…
ODI 10609070
Electrical System · Engine · Steering
Starting in april of 2014 when the car was only 9 months old the warning light came on "get to safety" overheating engine. It went to pleasantville ford where they replaced the engine. 1 month later all the transmission fluid fell out of the care. Back to pleasantville ford where they replaced a part. Over the next 8 months the warning over heating "get to safety" would happen another 7 times. Ford would tow the car…
ODI 10723149
Electrical System · Engine · Power Train
Vehicle bucked, lurched and went into "limp mode" and would not accelerate over 40 mph on a 70 mph interstate highway (just as i was trying to enter the highway) engine service light came on and i called ford roadside to have it towed to the dealership. This was actually the second time. This had happened previously but i cannot find the date - that time, i was entering the same interstate and the car did the same…
ODI 10596037
Electrical System · Engine · Vehicle Speed Control
Driving in parking lot fan speed accelerated and then engine shut off. I tried starting again 3 times and the same thing happened. I called aaa and had the car towed to hyundai dealership in reno where we purchased the car. There was a smell of burning in the engine. The dealer reported the smoke was coming from under the hood of the air compressor clutch coil is internal short cause burning smoke. They recommended…
Fire reported
ODI 10574053
Air Bags · Electrical System · Service Brakes
Ongoing list of recalls some of which do not even work its a dangerous distracting vehicle to drive endless trips to the dealers.this is not a safe and reliable car
ODI 10820003
Electrical System · Exterior Lighting
The left light went out. Went to dealer to get the light bulb changed. After an hour, they updated me that "some" electrical failure occurred and that it could take "hours" to fix. It for sure is covered under warranty, but now i am skeptical to drive this car. And this car is new, and under 3 months old with about 3500 miles. Incident occurred on friday evening. Took to dealer on saturday morning. Was told they…
ODI 10561729
Electrical System · Engine
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 ford escape. The contact stated that the vehicle stalled and the engine failure light illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to the dealer eights times; however, the remedy failed to the repair the vehicle. The last two times the vehicle was taken to the dealer, the wires to the power train control module were spliced but the failure persisted. The contact found nhtsa…
ODI 10703486
Electrical System
Ford escape had started to stall and quit suddenly when slowing or at a speed below 40mph. There have been 10 occurrences. About half of the time, the entire dash becomes black and it is some time (longest being 4 minutes) before the dash is lit up again. During this time, i am unable to get any response from the car at all. The other times i am able to get the car to restart after about 15-30 seconds. The…
ODI 10561268
Electrical System · Engine · Power Train
Now that it is colder out, my car has gone from overheating to misfiring from the defective cac/torque converter in this car. I've noticed that the misfiring does not show up on the check engine light or was able to be read by my obd reader. Misfiring can ruin the catalytic converter and cause emission issues. It is illegal in california (where i'm a resident) to not follow the obd ii protocol for reporting emission…
ODI 10555079
Electrical System
I heard about the recall on my local news station. I called my local ford service department and they told me the recall would only be fixed if my air bag light came on. Why to you want to risk injury and lawsuit. Why can't you go ahead and fix? *tr
ODI 10658819
Electrical System
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 ford escape. The contact stated that while driving at an unknown speed, the driver began to smell an electrical burning odor. The vehicle was stopped on the shoulder and before the keys were removed from the ignition, flames engulfed the vehicle. The contact was able to exit the vehicle without injury. The vehicle was destroyed. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure…
Fire reported
ODI 10536676
Electrical System · Engine
My 2013 ford escape has had a issue of stalling while at intersections or driving at slow speeds the radio and ac is still working but the engine is dead if you are not paying attention you could roll out into and interception and you car be dead and you have to put it in park to restart it this has happened many times to my wife she has almost got hit multiple times with the last one being a semi truck everytime i…
ODI 10578603
Electrical System
My wife and 6 year old grand daughter were traveling east bound highway 190 and vehicle started smoking from the vents and shut off in traffic. My wife wrestled the stalled car to the media where itt died. I had just traded a 2011 escape with a similar problem. It only had 28 k in mileage and it never made warranty.\ ford wont even return my calls. *tr
Fire reported
ODI 10535532