Driving on interstate at 55 MPH when vehicle lost all acceleration. Gas pedal was ineffective. Had to coast off road, shut vehicle down, restart it and was able to accelerate. At garage was told cost of part (expensive) but part was on back order and that the vehicle was not safe to drive until it was repaired since stalling or failure to accelerate could happen again at any time, and the vehicle might not "recover".
2010 Ford Escape acceleration complaints
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While driving at highway speed, car stopped. I shut off engine waited and restarted. Drove 35 miles this way in rushhour traffic. Went autozone (as ford was closed for day) and had code pulled. It said electronic throttle body. Cannot get part from parts store, will try to get part from dealer. A friend of mine who use to work for ford said that there have been 750,000 replaced throttle components for this model year. This left me in a very unsafe situation.
Wrench light lit up on the dash, car decelerated and stopped in the roadway and traffic. Engine was still running, but no response from the gas pedal. Turned the car off for 10 minutes. Started again and drove it home. Could have been a dangerous situation on a more crowded roadway. Based on internet research, a recall on the throttle body should be issued.
After sitting a stop light, when gas pedal was pushed to go there was no power. Engine was running but car would not move. Check engine light also went on. Mechanic diagnosed a throttle body malfunction and has replaced the part. The car is a one-owner, 3-year old ford escape.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford escape. The contact stated that the engine stalled without warning while driving 60 MPH. The vehicle was towed to a mechanic, who diagnosed the failure at the throttle body. The vehicle was repaired and the throttle body was replaced. In addition, the rear hatch door could only be opened electronically and not manually. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 43,000 and the approximate current mileage was 43,100...updated 09-18-13
Vehicle lost power while driving but engine was on. Throttle body had to be replaced.
Taking a turn off the main road when the car started shaking, lunging and had no throttle control, limited to about 10 MPH. A dangerous situation on a curvy road, with no break down lane. The error code returned was p2112, the throttle body needed to be replaced. Nothing visually appeared wrong with the old part.
On the highway in the left lane - very busy area with traffic merging from right when engine stopped - no power at all. Terrifying! Luckily, I was somehow able to get across three lanes of high speed traffic to the breakdown lane. Needed a tow to my ford dealer (55 miles). They diagnosed a defective electronic throttle control and due to the fact this part was backordered, I did not have a car for over a week. Expensive fix.
Vehicle lost all power while the electrical system remained on. Unable to supply fuel to the engine. Vehicle coasted to a stop. Was in passing lane at the time, with traffic behind me. Able to pull off highway. The vehicle restarted without icon lights. Drove approximately 2 miles, same situation. Vehicle restarted with check engine light remaining on. Vehicle was taken to a local ford dealer for repair. Diagnostic codes indicated a failed throttle body assembly. This was a non-warranty repair costing $608.80 plus rental car.
While driving on a busy morning highway my throttle went out. I could not accelerate and had to immediately put on my hazard lights and find a way out of traffic, with no way to accelerate. I thought this might have been a one time fluke, until it happened two more times. My car service provider isn't able to do much for me since no warning sensors have been triggered during any event. The three occurrences were at speeds of 55, 25 and 60 MPH. This is a dangerous and scary problem. What if I had not been able to get out of the way in time? When will ford be held fully accountable for the problems they have acknowledged having with escape throttles and their sensors?
Vehicle has the same throttle body condition as other failed units. Code p2111.
On the 18th of july, 2013, while driving on a major interstate in my 2010 ford escape, my SUV suddenly lost all throttle control and seemed to die. My wrench light came on and I was getting no response from the throttle and my engine was running roughly. I shut off the car and restarted it and tried to drive again. At 20 MPH the throttle stopped working again. I was only a few hundred yards from a truck weight station and was able to crawl to the station at about 15 MPH to troubleshoot the problem. I have a code reader in my vehicle and got p2111 and p2112 which is the throttle actuator control system - stuck open and stuck closed respectively. After letting the car sit for a while I was able to start it and the wrench light had gone out. I was able to go 60 MPH for the rest of my 12 hour trip with no problems. Today august 6, 2013 my car did the same thing. I was hoping it was a computer glitch and that I had gotten away one occurrence, but that was not the case.
I was leaving for work and my vehicle seemed to hesitate and then lost all function to the gas pedal. After shutting the vehicle off, I turned it back on and it appeared to work fine. I brought it to the dealer and they told me it was the throttle body. I'm currently waiting on the estimate but saw all the complaints and needed to add my name to the list of people with this problem. Ford should take this as a loss for the safety and betterment of its clients.
The throttle actuator control system of my 2010 ford escape is stuck closed per the p2112 code.
When driving the vehicle, the accelerator became useless and I had to coast to the side of the road, turn the ignition off and back on and everything was fine at that point. This happened on 4 different occasions before I was able to get the vehicle to the local ford dealer for an analysis of the situation. The dealer replaced the throttle body and charged me $159.13 for the part and labor.
Car stalled while driving at 40 miles per hour.this situation happened after I took the car to the dealership for a fuel service. The car stalling was awful. It was the third time it happened during that week. The engine service soon sign went on after the incident. I was driving my car with my 2 years old daughter in the backseat. It was a dangerous situation. I was lucky not to be hit by other cars. I brought the car to the service again and they said it was a failure of the throttle body. They charged me 600 dollars for a replacement. I am not happy with this situation because it looked like a malfunction. The car is under 20000 miles and I keep it in tip top condition.
Driving down interstate 45 in houston, car was running, but no power from the gas pedal. Needed to coast to an exit where I stopped completely. I needed to power down the car completely then restart the car before the gas pedal worked again. This has happened twice. The other time was about a month earlier. Ford service department said it was a defective "throttle body". Something like that shouldn't fail so early. I was just out of my warranty as well.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford escape. The contact stated that while driving 50 MPH, the vehicle failed to accelerate any further. The vehicle was shut off and restarted as it operated as designed. The failure recurred one month later while the contact was driving 35 MPH. The vehicle was taken to a dealer for diagnosis where the contact was informed that the throttle body would need to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 47,000. Updated 09/25/13
Driving down the highway, my car suddenly lost the ability to accelerate and I could no longer continue down the road. I pulled over and my car was running extremely rough. It almost felt like the car was bucking due to a novice driving a manual transmission - note that this was when I was parked as well as when I was decelerating. I noticed the orange wrench lit up on my dash and got a tow to the nearest dealership. The dealership called me and let me know it was a throttle body issue and it has been replaced. My car only had 48k on it and there is no way in my opinion that this should happen. I feel like I'm having money stolen from my wallet due to the fact ford is fully aware of the problem but is not taking proactive steps to fix it.
While driving my car has been stalling. It will also like surge forward. Today is repeatedly did this to the point where I couldnt get anywhere.
I was driving on I-64 westbound in the far left hov lane in newport news, virginia around 4:30 p.m. On august 2 during rush hour when my 2010 ford escape, which was on cruise control set at 60 MPH, suddenly stopped accelerating. I pressed the pedal and it continued to decelerate and started to shake. I put on my emergency flashers. My husband and I almost got hit numerous times by cars traveling at speeds of up to 65 miles per hour, as I was forced to cross four lanes of speeding traffic to reach the right shoulder. I feared that had my car stopped before reaching the shoulder, another car would have easily slammed into the rear of my vehicle, causing major bodily harm or death. After numerous near-collisions, I made it safely to the right shoulder. At that point, my heart was racing and my hands were trembling. My husband and I could have been killed!!! My car is now sitting at the ford dealership with no estimated time of repair. I depend upon my automobile for transportation to and from work, as well as other places. Please help me.
My husband and I were driving from downtown columbus back to our home and we were in between multiple cars on the freeway. While going 65 MPH the vehicle began to slightly jerk and loose speed. The vehicles around us and behind us were attempting to avoid crashing into us. We about half a mile from the nearest exit and by the time we made it to the ramp we were only going 35 MPH. There was no where to safely pull over on the freeway due to ongoing construction. It was extremely dangerous and I felt as though we could have been in a potentially deadly accident. Throughout this ordeal the throttle control/powertrain light was on. Once we got off on the nearest exit we were forced to come to a complete stop. We obviously could not use the gas to go forward and it was scary because we had traffic behind us. We turned the vehicle completely off and restarted it right there on the exit ramp and to our surprise the vehicle started up and the light was off. After reading how many people have had this same incident occur to them while driving this vehicle I am shocked that there has not been a recall. Does someone have to die before someone does something about this? What if my 2 year old had been in the vehicle on the freeway and someone hit us because we were unable to avoid a crash? Now I know that I should not be driving this vehicle because it appears that this will continue from what I have read and I am supposed to give money to ford to fix a problem that is not my fault... *shaking my head*, someone needs to do something about this.
We had just turned onto our street, started to proceed up the hill at about 35-40 MPH. Car suddenly went unresponsive. Wrench light indicator lit up on dashboard. Started to idle very hard, then surge, then low idle, then surge RPM. No gas pedal response at all. Luckily we had just got off the highway, and were close to home. However, we were going uphill. We had just enough momentum to get over the hill and coast down to our driveway. Upon putting the car in park in our driveway, the RPM's were fluctuating from almost 0, then shooting back up to over 2500. From wanting to stall, to wanting to race ahead. In researching, I have seen this described as a faulty electronic throttle body, which apparently has affected over 725,000 of these vehicles and still without recall. This is insane and highly dangerous if you are traveling in heavy traffic or on the highway as you have no control over the vehicle just wanting to stop dead. We were lucky in that we were already off of the interstate and close to home. Please, please investigate this issue further! Our normal warranty has just expired of course, and they say this is not covered by the powertrain warranty. Great, we have to pay not only for the car, but for it's defects as well. We don't just have an extra $500.00 laying around to repair this! This should be a recall.
Left turn form a stop and engine went to idle, no acceleration. Shut engine off and restarted , normal. Drove home three miles and parked. Won't drive until problem is corrected.
On july 20, 2013 going down the highway at 50mph vehicle suddenly jerks and slows down and the wrench (throttle control/power train) light comes on. While pressing gas pedal it would not accelerate it just continued to slow down. I coasted to side of the road and it starts jerking. I put car in park and turned it off. It took 2 tries to get it started, but once it started it ran like nothing was wrong. On july 26, 2013 same symptoms happened 4 times. Same symptoms happened again on aug. 1, 2013 during rush hour traffic when I was sitting at a red light and when light turned green I gave it gas to go and it messed up in the middle of the intersection and I luckily made it to the side of the road! I turned it off and turned it back on (took 2 tries) and drove it home. Next morning I had it towed to local ford dealership and they called me about 4 hrs later stating the throttle body needs to be replaced and it will cost just shy of $600! I was also told the part is on national back order and it may be a week before they get it. This issue happens randomly and there is no warning before it happens. This is dangerous! There needs to be a recall for this issue!
Car shuddered then died in middle of very dangerous, narrow, curvy road. Started up immediately but died when put in drive. Eventually got the car home after numerous stalls (a distance of approx. 3 miles) had to have car towed in. Told it was the throttle body and the $514.00 repair bill was not covered under any of the warranties. We had owned the car 30 days, and the extended warranty expired the day of the event. Apparently ford is aware of the problem but refuses to recall or pay for repairs. My 17 year old son could very easily have been killed.
When driving a wrench light came on and I had no power to the acceleration pedal but the engine never stalled causing the car to coast to the side of the road. The problem was the throttle body. Happened more then one time last time was at 59000 miles first was around 40000 miles.
While on a two lane road driving 40 MPH, the engine in my 2010 ford escape started to sputter as if it was going to die. It did not, but immediately after the incident I was no longer able to accelerate my vehicle. The engine did not rev, the car remained on but just coasted. I pulled over to the side of the road, turned off my car and turned it on again. I was then able to drive for approximately 7 minutes until the same problem occurred again. The next day I experienced the same problem on a 4 lane road going approximately 45 MPH. This is a serious problem and could have had a fatal outcome. Ford needs to recall the throttle body for all affected vehicles immediately!!
I was exiting off the highway and all of a sudden my vehicle shifted and then started losing speed and would not accelerate. I had to immediately pull over to the right side of the street and put on my hazard lights and bring the car to a complete stop. I then put the car in park and turned off the ignition and started it again and drove on home. It happened again the next day with me being aware that it may do it again. So I took it to a car repair shop and learned that the throttle body was the cause and has to be replaced. I have only had the car for 6 mos and it is not covered under my warranty.
I was driving and the truck just stop. It would not go until I turned the car off and turn it back on again. Then, it took off fast and slowed down again. We had to push the car home! Luckily, we was not too far from home. We was on our way to church, instead pushing a heavy truck in our good clothes. A hot mess. We had this truck a out 11 months. I bought a warranty but guess what it did not cover the throttle body. Its at the ford dealer causing $410.00 that I do not have; plus the part is on back order. It could take up to 3 weeks to get here.
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