At 41,000 miles, the service brake system light came on and required an ABS tone ring to be replaced. This is now looking to be quite the common part to break after the warranty expires. The service brake system light would come on in frequently, but would never generate a diagnostic code. At ~55000 miles, the service brake system light turned on and when I depressed my brake pedal, it went to the floor and was only able to stop the car by downshifting and using the emergency brake. Luckily I was only driving ~25 MPH on an empty road, but my young children were in the car. I turned the car off, and back on and tested the brakes on a short flat section of the road and they worked. I proceeded the 1/4 mile to my house and after stopping at a red light and 2 stop signs, the brakes failed pulling into my driveway being stopped by my other car!!! The ford dealer had the car and pulled a diagnostic code which had them replace an actuator in the d-pillar. They assured me that this solved the issue. My wife left to take the kids to school and the service brake system light turned on and the brakes failed as she pulled into the driveway. We had the vehicle towed to ford and they have been unable to find anything wrong or get the brakes to fail. No codes were generated. The general manager of the dealership claimed he had never heard of brakes failing on ford hybrids.
2007 Ford Escape Hybrid brakes complaints
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Numerous intermittent brake/system issues. Including grabbing during transition from regenerative to normal braking during wet/frozen conditions(causing poor control/sliding on slippery roads). First dealer, no trouble found, second dealer replaced front tone ring, did not correct, told to wait maybe a bulletin will be issued. Dealer retained part. Intermittent brake ABS/traction control/4x4 warning messages (vehicle may fail to accelerate during failure and or unexpectedly jump side to side during normal acceleration). Dealer replaced rear rotation sensor. Dealer retained part clunking, lurching and loss of braking during transition from regenerative to normal braking (causes driver to depress pedal harder then when braking restores vehicle stops abruptly). Not checked by dealer.
Brakes serviced on 07/12/10 certified ok. Abs light on 07/21/10. Sheehy ford; springfield, va service manager states, "not our fault your fault!" SUV has extended service warranty and vip member. Brakes certified as safe are unsafe.
The brakes suddenly did not work while pulling out of the parking lot. Abs light and parking lights came on and service brake warning. Diagnostic determine that hcu(hydraulic control unit) and anti-lock braking failed.
In september 2009 I had to have the ABS tone ring on drivers side replaced because I was having issues where breaks would "slip" when breaking- they would engage for a bit then slip and re-engage. This issue didn't prove to be dangerous for me, but could have been. The end of may I began having the same issues again and I knew what the problem was so I took it into dealer where they replaced the passenger side ABS ring- problem seemed to be solved. Until the next day when I was driving home from work on the highway and lost my breaks completely- less than 24 hours after they had serviced the breaks. Had car towed to dealer where they informed me that the master cylinder was bad and needed replaced- for $1400. This is not something that I believe I can wear unusually so that it would go bad like this, and so suddenly. It was an extremely dangerous situation it put me into where I was unable to stop my car without the use of the emergency brakes. I do not understand how the toyota break issues were recalled but this one has not been, it seems after searching the internet that this is not an uncommon problem with the ford escape hybrids. I feel let down by whatever agency it is that should be regulating this issue and by ford who until now I thought was a respectable corporation. *tr consumer stated complaint was submitted in 2010, sold the vehicle right after the incident. Updated 6/8/18
While driving on interstate 95 in northern virginia, my family and I we're cruising at highway speeds until traffic came to a sudden halt. My wife successfully applied the brakes in our 2007 ford escape hybrid and we came to a stop. However, following that stop, the brakes no longer functioned. We had managed to successfully negotiate the vehicle off the road and called for a tow truck. The only factor that LED to the stopping of the vehicle was downshifting and use of the emergency brake. Thankful we were safe, but frustrated because we had been at the ford dealership that morning to have a service light and weak braking power investigated. The technician told me that the service light could be a computer malfunction (to be remedied by a "re boot" of the system) or a failure of the electronic control module. He assured me the vehicle was safe to drive. In the end, both the electronic control module and hydraulic control module failed, resulting in the incident on I-95. *tr consumer stated he got rid of the vehicle after the brake failure. Updated 6/8/18
Full brake failure on a brand new ford escape hybrid. Brakes failed at 3,000 miles on the car on my way to work. Dealer found and fixed a "computer" system defect that caused the braking system to fail completely. Scattered similar reports on the internet on the ford escape. If it hadn't been six am on a quiet street I would have crashed the car. There was no braking power whatsoever. Brake light warning did flash.
I own a 07 ford escape with 30,000 mile on it. Last week the ABS brake system engaging when there is no need for it to. When stopping the vehicle on jan.28 2010 the vehicle began to buck badly. After stopping again at the next stop it bucked once more, as I drove off the ABS light came on and the message center list both "service brake system" and service 4x4 system" I took the car to the dealership on jan 29 and was told that the ABS system tone ring for the left front wheel was defective and needed to be replace (cost $325.00) I have found on the internet that this seem to be a common replacement part on ford and mercury of this model and year. I feel this is a problem that ford should be recalling. (the dealership kept the old part).
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