Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated that while driving 50 MPH, the vehicle decelerated independently with the illumination of the wrench warning icon. The contact stated that the failure had occurred several times prior to the recent failure. The vehicle was taken the dealer, who diagnosed that the throttle body was defective and needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was repaired. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 54,000 and the current mileage was 55,000.
2009 Ford Escape acceleration complaints
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On 5 different occasions while driving anywhere from starting from a stop light to traveling up to 70 MPH on a major interstate my ford escape has suddenly lost power. The engine does not lock up, just all power is lost. I press the accelerator and there is no revving of engine. I have been able to get the car to a stop, but it will start to jerk and stall. Finally I turn it off, then restart it but it I having difficulty in starting. Thus far I have spent $240 for a tow and have had 3 mechanics investigate, one had no idea but had "heard about throttle body problems", a second told me to take it to the dealership and charged about $40 to clean the throttle body. The dealership has told me its the throttle body and will be charging about $365 to replace.
In september of 2010, the check engine light on my ford escape would come on and off, on and off. Some times it would stay on for weeks and then just disappear. Sometimes it would stay on for a day or two and then disappear. And whenever I need to take it to the repair shop, the check engine light was never on. Pep boys could never find anything wrong because they check engine light was never on, and no codes appeared. When pep boys drove the car, it never stopped on them. In april of 2012, as my son was home from college and driving the car, it shut off on him on the freeway on many occasions. He would explain to me that the engine went off and the car would not accelerate. He would have to pull over and either restart it or wait an hour for it to start sometimes. This happened on numerous occasions at fast and slow speeds. The check engine light and maintenance lights would come on. The car began stopping on me with the exact same problems stated above. Every time I took the car to pep boys, they would drive it for hours and it never stopped on them. On april 29, 2012, I took the car in to pep boys, and the stop engine code read that the cam sensor needed to be replaced. I got the car back on may14, 2012, and it immediately stopped on me. Then it ran good for two weeks, then it began stopping again on a regular basis. On june 21, 2012, I took the car in and the codes read throttle problem. They replaced the throttle and I got the car back on june, 29, 2013. I have spend over $3500.00 on this problem and would like to get reimbursed. One thing to not is that the original check light began to come on around august of 2011 and there never was a clear diagnosis until may and june of 2013.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated that while driving approximately 10 MPH, the vehicle stalled with the illumination of the wrench warning icon. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the electronic throttle body needed to be replaced but the parts were not available. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure and current mileage was 47,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated that while driving 15 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The failure recurred twice with the illumination of the check engine light. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnosis where it was stated that the throttle needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired and the manufacturer was not notified. The approximate failure mileage was 57,000.
While traveling at 60 MPH on the highway I suddenly lost all power. I coasted the car across a lane of traffic to the right lane of the highway. I could not pull out of traffic because this part of the highway has no shoulder and is bordered by a concrete wall or fence. The right-lane traffic came to a stop while I restarted the car. After I restarted the car, I proceeded down the freeway, but before I arrived at the next exit, the car stalled again. I feared for my safety and for the safety of other drivers. I experienced a similar incident on 6/20/13 and reported it to at that time, I took my car to the local ford dealer who services my car. The dealer stated that the problem is related to the throttle body. The problem is so common to ford escapes that there is a 3 week backlog for ordering a replacement part. In the meantime, the dealer reprogrammed the PCM (power control module?) ' for $118 ' as a temporary fix. Apparently, the 'fix' was very temporary. My car is too dangerous to be driven until the throttle body is replaced. For the safety of myself and other drivers, I cannot risk driving the car to work. How many lives must be placed at risk before a recall is issued to correct this defect?
I purchased a 2009 ford escape from suncoast chrysler jeep dodge on 5/7/13. My salesman [xxx]took me on test drive in the vehicle, which had 79818 miles on it. Right away, the vehicle began to putt-putt, and act like it doesn't want to accelerate, yet the RPM shot up. It ended up cutting off on us around the corner from the dealership. Rob managed to get it back started and told me he will have service dept check it out while I worked on paperwork with finance guy. From may 7th until the vehicle finally broken down for good on june 27th, the vehicle has continued to have problems, and cut off 5x since my purchase. I called [xxx] and told him that car is still not running well and he came to my job and pick up vehicle for service. He brought it back with a clean bill of health and even said don't worry, it has a warranty. Two weeks ago I called and spoke to [xxx], the used vehicle manager and told him that the vehicle had cut off on me at least (4) times and although they gave it a clean bill of health, I am still convinced that something is wrong. He told me to bring vehicle back in. I know that a vehicle should not get up to 4-5rpm's, especially a newer model vehicle, so I decided that I wanted to take the vehicle to a ford dealer or anybody else because I didn't trust them to tell me the truth about what was really wrong with the vehicle. Unfortunately, I didn't make the time to get the car checked out and the result is that the vehicle is broke down, incapable of not moving except for a few feet before cutting off. I had the vehicle towed into the dealership on 6/27 I was told by the service dept that the throttle body was defective, and a new throttle body was not available and they are on back order with a month wait and that over 900 of them were being requested at this time and they don't understand why ford has not put a recall on them. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
Electronic throttle body failure - 2009 ford escape [xxx] first time: driving 35 MPH and all of a sudden nothing...no power, no acceleration. Luckily I was not rear ended when the vehicle lost power. I had to coast into a parking lot, shut off the truck for 5 minutes, restart and drove home which was less than 1 mile away. Next day ran okay, next day no power, no acceleration. Took to dealer on june 7, 2013 and they did a diagnostic test and gas fuel induction flush because the electronic throttle body part was unavailable for replacement. Second/third time: leaving for vacation. Got about 5 miles from home and nothing, no power, no acceleration. Coasted into a parking lot and the car lurched...luckily I had my foot on the brake. Took vehicle to dealer and the truck is still there because they do not have the part to fix it. It has been parked at the dealership waiting for the electronic throttle body part to fix the issue for over a week. So far I have spend $278.37 for a diagnostic test and gas fuel induction flush and still have an unsafe vehicle due to an electronic throttle body failure. Ford you need to fix this and reimburse our expenses related to this dangerous safety issue. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
I was driving and came to a stop sign, turned left and pressed the gas and my car wouldn't go, all lights and gauges were normal but the gas pedal all the way to the floor wouldn't make the car go so I coasted off to the shoulder and almost made it out of the road. I tried calling several tow truck company's for roadside assistance and didn't get an answer. After about 20 mins, I tried cranking the car. All parts ran normal, all gauges normal, so I drove it to work and then called the ford dealership where they told me that is was the throttle body.
I was on the interstate, approximately 6:30am, going 70 in a 65 zone. The radio was on, so I heard nothing strange, but suddenly, with no warning, my car lost the power moving it forward. I did not lose control of my 09 escape. The steering remained ok, as did the brakes, but my car suddenly lost power in the engine to keep my car moving forward. As if maybe I had run out of gas - but there was no sputtering and I was not low on gas. I kept pressing the gas pedal thinking maybe there was trash in my gas line, but there was no change in the way my vehicle behaved. I was slowing down fast, but could steer myself to the shoulder of the highway. I turned the engine off, waited a minute or 2, and tried to start again. It took a minute to catch, but it finally did and I drove off. 5 miles down the highway, it did it again. Again, I struggled to the shoulder in heavy traffic, turned the engine off and waited. I was 50 miles from home in a rather remote area and I was scared. Again, I started my escape - again it took a minute, but it did start and I made it all the way home without another problem. I drove directly to my local ford dealership and my car his been there 36 days. I call every other week to check on the status of the part. They never have any news of the part coming. They have given me an excellent loaner car to drive, but this is not right. They tell me 1000's of people had the same part go bad across the us. We're all waiting. Just this morning, they say they now have a shipping number for the part we all need. They tell me 7 of us are waiting for the same part here in my small town. They hope the part will be here today or tomorrow. My local ford estimates the repair cost to be $450. Surely this should be a recall item.
While traveling at 45 MPH on a busy road, the engine stopped responding to the accelerator and began decelerating. The throttle/power-train warning light was activated. I had to pull over the the shoulder of the road to avoid being hit by other traffic. The car began jerking forward as though it was trying to accelerate on its own. I shut off the engine for a minute and once I restarted the car, the warning light was no longer illuminated. The next day (6/23/2013) I drove to my closest ford dealer and they diagnosed the problem as a faulty throttle body. The service advisor informed me that the part was currently backordered and that they had 15 other ford vehicles currently waiting for inventory to arrive. The cost of repair is $473. The mechanic cleaned out the carbon from my throttle body as a temporary fix until the part arrived. Two days later (6/25/2013), as I was driving 55 MPH, the same problem occured and I was forced to pull over and restart my vehicle. While driving back to the ford dealership the next morning to get a rental car, my car stopped responding as I was crossing train tracks (and I was able to restart the vehicle). Now my car is currenly sitting at the ford dealership and I am paying an additional $33 a day for a rental car while I wait for the part to arrive (estimated to be 10-13 days). The federal safety agency action # dp12006.
While driving the engine suddenly would no longer respond to the gas pedal and would not accelerate. After pulling over and restarting the car, the problem went away. However, after a few days the problem happened twice more, this time with the engine completely shutting off while idling at a stop light and while driving slowly down a neighborhood street. The garage determined there to be a problem with the throttle body and it needed to be replaced.
On sunday, june 16, 2013, I was driving near topeka, kansas, in a suburban area with my wife, 5 year old daughter & 6 month old son in our 2009 ford escape. While driving approximately 25 MPH the vehicle stalled while driving. Luckily we were not on a high traffic street so we were able to pull over to the side of the road, shut off the vehicle, and restart the car successfully. The escape continued on without issue back home to lawrence, kansas. The vehicle was driven around lawrence without any issue until friday, june 21, 2013. On this date my wife had to commute from lawrence to kansas city, kansas, for work-related training. On her trip to kansas city (kc) the vehicle stalled while driving at highway speed (60+ MPH). She was successful restarting the vehicle but it stalled once again while in kc. She drove the escape to shawnee mission ford to see if diagnostics could be run on the vehicle, but there was not enough time left in the day to perform the full diagnostics. A service technician test-drove the vehicle and while driving it stalled once again. Because carseats for our two children were located in the escape, my wife had to drive from kc back to lawrence so our family would have these items on hand. While driving from kc to lawrence the vehicle stalled once again at highway speed (60+ MPH). Once back in lawrence the vehicle was dropped off at laird noller ford, and on saturday, june 22, 2013, it was determined by their service staff that the throttle body was defective. This part is currently on national backorder, so we could be without our primary family vehicle for more than 3 weeks. This will result in hardship on the family and could result in major financial costs if a rental vehicle is needed for the entire period we are without our primary family vehicle and could have resulted in serious injury or death as a result of this defect.
Driving in town and it just had nothing... Pushed on accelerator and it would not do anything. Car did not stall out, sounded like it was going to but didn't. Still had all power just would not move when giving it gas. ***took to mechanic error number shows bad throttle body part***
On april 19, 2013,I was driving out of the parking lot from my home. I stopped at the exit to wait for traffic to clear. I gave it gas it jerked and I was no longer able to accelerate the car. The wrench icon came on. I was able to basically crawl back to my home. It felt like it would if u put the car in neutral where it would just coast slowly. The next day I started the car and it went back to normal. It happened again a few days later & I took it to ford. They said nothing was wrong (no code on computer). That visit cost me $497.89 this happened again on 06-20-13 again driving locally maybe 25 mi/hr.& took to ford. After researching online I see it's a common prob. I had them chg the throttle body. (my bother is a mechanic) of course my warranty didn't cover this prob. That visit was another $368.49. This car has 23k mi on it. I hope this problem has been fixed.
I was driving home from work and had driven about 3.5 miles when I was turning left going about 10-15 MPH. My car suddenly lost acceleration and the wrench illuminated. I panic because I was on a street where there was no area to pull off the road. I looked in the rearview mirror to make sure that there were no other cars behind me and put on my hazard lights and turned off the engine. After about 30 seconds I turned the engine over and it sputtered to life, but then the wrench warning light illuminated again and I could not accelerate. Cars were coming behind me and I tried my best to give them room to drive by, which was hard as the right side of the street was bumper to bumper with parked cars. After the cars passed me, I turned off the engine again and waited about 30-45 seconds and the engine came to life and I was able to drive home without another incident.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated while driving approximately 50 MPH, the vehicle stalled and the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the electronic throttle body needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 76,000.
P2111 error per computer - throttle actuator stuck open. Vehicle will not accelerate and engine shakes violently, feels like it wants to stall, but does not. Needs to be shut off and restarted to accelerate again. Problem has now happened 6 times in the last 2 days.
Approximately one month ago, while slowing to make a right-hand turn, the vehicle seemed to lose all power; no acceleration, etc. I managed to get on the side of the road, put the vehicle in park, and turned the engine off. When I restarted the engine, everything seemed fine. About 2 weeks later when pulling out onto a main highway, the same thing happened, except this time the "wrench" light came on, and the vehicle started lurching and shaking extremely hard. Again, I got to the side of the road (fortunately no volume of traffic), put vehicle in park, turned engine off, and restarted - wrench light gone and all seemed ok. Two days ago, same thing happened 4 times within a two mile trip, again fortunately no traffic volume. I had the vehicle towed to the local dealership, and no surprise it was the throttle body, which was replaced at my expense. I see this problem is widespread, and potentially very dangerous. Ford should be required to issue a recall before someone gets seriously hurt or killed.
Electronic throttle body circuit board failed (ford mechanic's diagnosis) while approaching a traffic light. Car had been having constant speed surges while driving in 3-4 gear powerband and was serviced. Everything seemed fine until a couple of weeks later when the throttle became unresponsive. Ford is replacing the tb assembly with what I fear is the exact same part; week and a half wait for the part, no loner car, no warranty coverage.
On 10/19/2013 after picking up my car for the 3rd time at ford for transmission problems I was driving on the interstate at approximately 55mph , vehicle lost power, all the lights on the dash turned on including a wrench symbol. I took it to back to the ford dealer where they kept it and stated it was repaired, the second incident was on 06/10/2013 where I was almost involved in a terrible accident because it happened again while I was on the interstate at a speed of 55mph. The vehicles behind me where not aware I had lost power causing a back up until I was able to get the car to the side of the road. Ford says its a throttle problem which is now not covered because I am now over 60k miles, therefore I have to pay to get it fixed.
I was driving on a residential street at 30mph, when I lost speed control. The car lunged forward and while it was still on(the engine), I could not accelerate. I coasted into a gas station and put the car in park. The engine was at a very low idle and it sounded as if it were going to cut off. I also got the check engine light on the left side of the dash. A guy looked under the hood, there was no smoke, nothing leaking, or anything. He turned the car off, then back on and the light was gone and I could drive it again. I was going to take it out to westway ford and it did it again before I got there. They told me they could not look at the code because when I turned the car off I reset it. They did inform me however that it was most likely the throttle body and among other things that they recommended it would cost me $1286.00 to fix. Do not have that kind of money!
This has happened to me on 8 occasions in rapid succession. In all instances, I am driving along as usual, and all of a sudden, my accelerator becomes non-responsive. The car is still running, but I am quickly losing speed, I cannot accelerate, and the engine does not rev when I press on the accelerator. I must stop the car, put it in park, turn it off, and restart the car in order to "fix" the problem and continue driving. Simply putting the car in neutral, turning it off and restarting it will not remedy the situation.
I accelerated from a stopped position and in approximately 100 feet the accelerator stop working. The engine did not die but the vehicle would only idle at a slow pace. I stopped the car, put in park, turned off the engine and then restarted. The accelerator worked at that time and I continued onto the highway with no problem. I was traveling at 75 MPH for about 10 miles when the accelerator stopped working again and the vehicle slowed to an idle. I repeated the same process as before, stop, put in park, turned off engine and restarted. The accelerator worked again and I continued on 10 miles and made it home. The next available day the vehicle was taken to the ford dealership. I experienced (2) of the same scenerios listed above along my 6 mile route to the dealership. After (2) days the problem was diagnosed as a defective throttle body with a $574 price tag to repair. The service person stated this was not covered under warranty or a recall item. She then stated that the part was on a "national backorder" and would not be available for another month. This leads me to believe this is happening alot!! I have read several articles on the internet about this same type of issue happening to other ford escapes, varying years and was surprised there has not been a recall. The incident started when I was out of town, headed toward home at approimately 11:00 pm. It could have been an even more dangerous situation if I had lost power trying to turn across traffic or was on a much busier highway when this happened. I hope others are aware of this website.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated that while driving approximately 35 MPH, the vehicle stalled as the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer twice where the failure was unable to be replicated. On the third occasion, it was diagnosed that the electronic throttle body needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle was repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 56,000 and the current mileage was 70,000.
While driving down the road at approximately 70 MPH all of a sudden I had no throttle control all I was doing was coasting on the momentum that I had at that moment. I happened to coast into a gas station had to get the car towed to a local dealer. This was not covered by warranty on monday so I had to pay almost $500 for the repairs. Had this happen on a busy interstate it could've been a lot worse than it was.
As I was driving home from work, my vehicle stopped moving. I pressed on the gas, but it would not accelerate. I had to pull over and turn my vehicle off. When I restarted it, it came on, but there was a wrench light that appeared. I was able to make it home, but when I tried to restart it, it would not move.
While driving on major thorough fair at a high rate of speed, the vehicle lost all speed. Went to limp mode. The gas pedal did not work. I pulled over to the emergency lane and restarted the vehicle and all was fine. This exact same thing happened again later that same day. I took the vehicle to a ford dealer and they confirmed it was the throttle body assembly. They could not guarantee the vehicle was safe to drive. Nor could they fix it. This was due to the fact the ford was not currently releasing the part.
At or about 2:30pm on sunday, june 9, 2013, the identified vehicle was being operated on a limited-access state highway at or around the posted speed limit of 70 MPH. The vehicle took an exit ramp onto the frontage road and decelerated to posted speed limit of 50 MPH. Without warning or any prior indication, the vehicle entered the ford-defined "limp home mode," which included a loss of engine power (governed to approximated 900 RPM in second gear), and the vehicle experienced rapid deceleration to approximately 10 MPH on the high-speed three-lane roadway with medium to medium-heavy traffic. Upon pulling the vehicle to safety in a parking lot, the vehicle experienced rough idling and the dashboard illuminated a "throttle control/power train fault" warning light. Upon cycling the engine off and on, engine ignition took longer than typical to start by several seconds, but appeared to otherwise function properly. Upon re-entering the roadway, an experience similar to that described above occurred after shifting to third gear. After-market diagnostic computer indicates the vehicle has a p2112, "throttle actuator control stuck closed," code. Engine was cycled and entry to roadway was attempted again; similar episode occurred when shifting to third gear. Vehicle was towed to a ford dealership for service, which is pending at the time of this report.
Lost power while driving, applied pressure to the accelerator and nothing.after a year of intermittent problems with this I took it into ford dealership and they diagnosed a faulty throttle body....trouble code p 2111 .diagnostic trouble codes (dtc) p2111, throttle body stuck open. Its cost me us$275. I think ford must be assume the cost because is car failure from fabric. Let me know about the recall for the federal safety agency action number : dp12006.
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