2009 Ford Escape: sudden unintended acceleration

Filed Apr 25, 2020 · Fuel system · 75,000 miles · AR · crash

Pulling into a parking spot in front of a business when the car suddenly accelerated causing the car to jump the curb and side swipe a brick column before hitting a bench by then I was able to turn off the ignition stopping the car. Caused damage to the car and the property

Filed Aug 21, 2017 · Acceleration, Brakes · 124,000 miles · NM

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. While the contact's spouse was driving various speeds, the steering wheel seized and the power steering failed. While making right or left turns, the steering failed without warning on several occasions. Also, when the brake pedal was depressed, the vehicle lunged forward without warning. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, but the cause of the failure could not be determined. The local ford dealer and the manufacturer were not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 124,000.

Filed Aug 1, 2017 · Transmission · 109,000 miles · CA

Electronic throttle body (etb) my 2009 ford escape will occasionally lurch/surge forward or stall out while I'm driving. I believe this is a problem that ford addressed with an extended warranty a few years ago but I was not aware of this. I believe this is a safety issue and ford should contact all owners!

Filed Aug 3, 2015 · Acceleration · 125,000 miles · VA

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. While driving approximately 60 MPH, the vehicle intermittently accelerated without the accelerator pedal being depressed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 125,000.

Filed Jan 25, 2015 · Acceleration, Engine · 103,566 miles · OH

My car will surge forward when I accelerate after a stop.

Filed Nov 8, 2014 · Acceleration, Brakes · 81,400 miles · CO · crash

Entering a parking space in a grocery store lot. When I applied the brakes it seemed I got a simutaneus engine acceleration and the car surged forward hitting the facing car.

Filed Sep 4, 2014 · Engine · 98,500 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. The contact stated while driving approximately 60 MPH, the engine stalled and the check engine light illuminated. The contact merged to an emergency lane where the vehicle was turn off and after restarting it resume normal function. Also, the contact noticed that when the accelerator pedal was depressed slowly, the vehicle would lunge forward. The failure recurred multiple times. The contact received a customer satisfaction program notification related to the failure that the vehicle was exhibiting. However, the dealer refused to provide the repairs listed since the failure code did not show during the diagnosis. Also, the vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who was unable to diagnose the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and explained that they were not obligated to honor the campaign unless the codes were available during the diagnosis. The approximate failure mileage was 98,500.

Filed Mar 23, 2014 · Acceleration, Brakes · 69,500 miles · PA · crash

While coming to a stop at a major intersection with a car in front of me, my 2009 ford escape suddenly accelerated and would not stop, despite my frantic efforts to brake the car; I swerved to my right, went through 6 inches of snow on grass curb and then went up a 5 ft. Ice bank, where my wheels jammed in the ice and I stopped, sitting at nearly a 45 degree angle, 5 ft. Above the road. My front bumper was mangled in the ice bank and my passenger-side mirror was broken off by a stop sign. If not for the snow bank, I would have continued into the very busy intersection, where I and other drivers would have undoubtedly been injured or killed. I want to emphasize that despite hitting the brake, the car with unintended acceleration problem, did not stop, it kept going until hitting the snow-ice bank.

Filed Mar 7, 2014 · Transmission · 650 miles · SC

Car slowed then accelerated to over 100mph. Took it to dealer, told me there was nothing wrong. Happened again pulling into my driveway at 5mph, sudden acceleration, and stopped with a bump to my garage door. Took it to dealer, told nothing wrong and nothing they could do. Now I find out there is a transmission linkage problem with this car and I believe has a recall. Dealer wants $100 to look at it. If the part being recalled is fine, they keep the $100, if not they deduct it from my bill or refund it to me. While under warranty nothing could be done, according to them. This has occurred on several more occasions, including the slowing up of the vehicle. You push the pedal down and you lose power, then suddenly it kicks in and you're off and running at high speeds, with the pedal stuck to the floor. I've turned the ignition off to stop and thrown it into neutral and watched the engine tach very high before turning it off (into accessories so I still have brakes and steering) to prevent damage to the engine. Contacted ford customer service and they informed me the dealer has the right to charge me the fee but urged me to go to dealer and pay. If the linkage is on recall then why do I have to pay a fee up front? They claim I should get a refund if it is the linkage, but I've been having problems with it since I bought the car. No warning lights, check engine or anything came on. I now have the car up for sale and I am passing this problem onto the next buyer. The dealer has been urging me to have transmission flushes since the warranty expired at 36k miles.

Filed Nov 7, 2013 · Transmission · 74,238 miles · TX

I was traveling at approximately 65 MPH when my vehicle slightly lunged forward then I lost all speed control. My speed dropped rapidly and I was unable to use my gas pedal. I was able to roll to a safe place to call and wait for a tow truck. My owner's manual indicated the warning light (wrench) meant there was a throttle control/powertrain failure and to contact a dealership right away. I had my vehicle towed to the nearest dealership. I was contacted the following day that the diagnosis was the throttle body had to be replaced and that my extended warranty plan, millennium, which I purchased through ford motor company, was not covering the repair because they categorized that part under "emissions." that is ridiculous. After additional research I have found numerous websites indicating this throttle body issue has been brought to ford's attention and they have yet to issue a recall. I also found that there was a recall for this part on the 2010 ford freestyle....why aren't they taking care of this problem for the rest of us? It's a real problem! This repair and subsequent need for a rental car has cost me almost $600 and I'm sure I am not alone, based on what I've read in the past few days.

Filed Oct 1, 2013 · Acceleration · 64,123 miles · MI

I would like to preface that this vehicle is not driven every day. Starting in july I had started experiencing drops/spikes in the RPM's. I would be pulling into my garage and the truck would suddenly lunge forward. Thankfully already having my foot on the brake; I could stop the truck before causing any damage to items in the garage. Then I started to noticed while sitting at traffic lights the RPM's would drop and it would run a little ruff for a sec or 2 then balance back out - this was very random. - next, while stopped at a traffic light it stalled completely on 2 separate occasions with in the same day. At first we thought maybe some bad gas, so we ran it almost out and filled up with premium. The truck was then better for a few days. The final incident was when I was taking my son to soccer. I backed out of the driveway and put the truck into drive, stepped on the gas, and it would not go. The RPM's would not go above 1000. Then the little wrench came on in the lower left of the dash. I quickly put on the 4-ways as I now was blocking the busy street for which we live on; and was able to limp the truck into a neighbor's driveway. Had it towed up to the local dealership and they said it was the throttle body. I could not believe the initial quote from the dealership - and we had purchased the extended care pkg with the vehicle - yeah so much for that. I started looking it up and found that ford has acknowledged that there were production issues of the throttle body for this make/model/yr causing faulty parts to be installed - but yet will not take full responsibility, issue a recall and truly fix the issue. At least a service issue warranty- only if you have these issues and the diagnoses is the throttle body(code: p2111 or p2112) for this make/model/yr - it will be covered by ford.

Filed Jun 17, 2013 · Acceleration · 87,000 miles · TX

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!