Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ford escape. After coming to a complete stop, the contact attempted to accelerate and the vehicle jolted forward violently. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and a dealer, but they were unable to duplicate the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 18,000.
2011 Ford Escape acceleration complaints
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6 times suddenly lost acceleration without warning while driving. 4th, 5th and 6th time on 8/3/2016 on u.s. 25 at about 55 to 60 MPH all in one day. No response from gas pedal, tachometer dropped to 0, wrench light came on. Was able to coast to side of road. Maintained pwr steering/brakes. Shut off engine, restarted/worked fine, wrench light off. Mileage about 65,000. 1st, 2nd it happened on side roads in town and the 3rd I was on a busy road in lexington ky on versailles road where semis were everywhere and I thought I was gonna get hit then. Wrench light came on while decelerating, light and throttle reset upon shutting of and restarting car. Ford says they will not repair unless code is present, code erases when car is shut off and will not drive until car is shut off and restarted. These incidents fit description of ford "field service action" for electronic throttle body extended coverage. V dangerous!! I do not want to be driving this vehicle with it doing all of this especialyyy if I have my grandkids in the vehicle with me.
While driving, my check engine light came on. Actually the first light to come on was the power train indicator. While pressing accelerator, the speed continued to decrease. I was in rush hour traffic and it really scared me. I pulled into a parking lot and was unable to take it to an automotive repair shop because it was late in the evening. The next morning I drove slowly to treadquarters auto service center and after describing the symptoms was told they needed to do a computer scan and then was told I needed a throttle body immediately. If not installed as soon as possible, I may end up stranded somewhere. I was also told ford knows about the problem with this part and have yet to do anything about it. Is this true? Have I just paid an exorbitant amount of money to replace a part that ford knows is problematic?? I have several ford vehicles and am a loyal customer but I will not purchase another if this company knowingly put me in danger.
3 times suddenly lost acceleration without warning while driving. 1st time on 6/17/16 on interstate at 70mph: no response from gas pedal, tachometer dropped to 0, wrench light came on. Was able to coast to side of road. Maintained pwr steering/brakes. Shut off engine, restarted/worked fine, wrench light off. Mileage about 64,920. 2nd & 3rd time same happened driving on country roads (on 6/22/16 mileage about 64,993 and on 7/7/16 mileage about 65,330). Wrench light came on while decelerating, light and throttle reset upon shutting of and restarting car. Ford says they will not repair unless code is present, code erases when car is shut off and will not drive until car is shut off and restarted. These incidents fit description of ford "field service action" for electronic throttle body extended coverage. V dangerous! The first time it happened my 20 year old daughter was driving on the interstate. Sudden deceleration in interstate traffic on I-80 in western pa could've had deadly result!
I was driving down the street and my vehicle started to idle funny, like it was going to stop running and it would not accelerate at all, I had to coast to the side of the street. When I pressed the gas pedal it would not accelerate or do anything almost like it was disconnected. The engine light also came on at this time. My fiancee' came to where I was at and he shut the vehicle off and then started it back up and the engine light was off and the vehicle was back to running again like nothing ever happened. I have read several complaints about the throttle body being bad and that ford and ford garages where refusing to fix the problem with all the vehicles doing this and I think that is so wrong on many levels due to ford being a top manufacturer of vehicles they should stand by the vehicles and fix any problems that occur with the vehicles. I don't have any warranty and I am on limited income and cannot afford to pay a big tow bill or play for a major repair.
I have a 2011 ford escape. I was driving on a 2 way street and the gas pedal stopped working out of nowhere and I could not accelerate. Luckily I was able to coast to the side before getting rear ended. What is frustrating about this is ford had a recall a couple years ago for my make and model for a bad throttle .. Same exact issue I had where I was driving and couldnt accelerate. Instead of replacing the throttle they gave 1.6 million customer satisfaction program warranties.. So basically you had to have an issue before it would be replaced. I called ford corp 5/23/16 and because my VIN# wasnt one in the recall they will not pay for my $400 bill. It is the same exact issue as the recall but since my VIN# is different they wont pay. How does that make any sense. Luckily I didnt get into an accident . I find it incomprehensible that ford recalls the throttle body in their cars and will not do the right thing and pay for mine. I drive the highway everyday to work and I cant even imagine if it failed on the highway. All because I dont have the right VIN#.. Maybe they need to consider expanding their VIN#'s. This is a very serious issue and the fact they dont care makes me rethink my next car purchase. We have 2 ford's now and I dont see a 3rd in my future.
While merging onto the interstate the the car suddenly began to accelerate at full throttle. Temp ~30 deg, road - dry pavement odometer: 110367.0 miles. The throttle body was replaced in september 2015 by the ford dealer, as well as a new exhaust system at the same time. The check engine light came on the day before. Incident: I do not know my actual speed at the time of the incident because I was merging on to the interstate. It was a long ramp, I am pretty sure I was going at least 45mph. I was accelerating to merge on. All of a sudden the engine started to race and the car proceeded to accelerate even faster. I immediately pushed on my brakes which helped to keep me from hitting the vehicle in front of me. The engine continued to race as I was depressing the brake. I shut the engine off and steered my way to the side of the road. I put the car into neutral and once I stopped I put the car into park. I proceeded to try to start the car, but the engine raced like it was at full throttle. I immediately shut it off. I tried two more times with the same result. I called my husband's mechanic whose business was close by to ask his opinion about what to do next. With him listening on the phone, I started the engine, but this time is started up correctly. Maybe a total of 10 minutes had passed from the first instance of me having to pull to the side of the road and this last try when it started correctly. I drove the car to the mechanic's business about 5 miles away. I wanted him to check the code for why the check engine light was on and if that was a factor for the throttle issue. The code for the check engine light read: code#: p0456 - (evap) system leak detected ( very small leak). We also checked the floor mats, but there was no issue with them. [the mats did come with the car at time of purchase from the dealer] purchased:11/30/2010
Our ford stalls then jerks/jumps when accelerating at times. It's starting to happen more often. It mainly happens after turning on and driving it for the first time during that day although there have been times where it will still do it even after it has been running throughout the day.
Stalling out in traffic speeding up for no reason.all symptoms point to throttle body exactly what they described to me at my local dealer! But told me they will not fix it until it sets a code !!!!!!!!!!! In the mean time I am afraid I will get hurt because it has stalled in traffic . I am really concerened for my safety.
When slowing down at about 20-25 MPH, car jerks like transmission is trying to slip from 2nd to 1st gear. Has been like this for over two years. Most readings on 'net suggests software issues but not many owners have found satisfaction with the updates and appear to have to pay for them..
Was driving through town, vehicle revved up and then stalled. Stopped vehicle, turned off, and restarted. Started up without an issue. 3 days later, while driving to work, vehicles wrench indicator light came on and vehicle lost power. Restarted okay. As the week progressed, vehicle started losing power several times during my 20 mile trip to work and back, 40 miles round trip. Then on 7/7/15, vehicle lost power 4 times on my way home, the second time it lost power the engine indicator light came on and stayed on. It also took longer to restart the vehicle. Checked computer for code. Code states p 2112, tac system stuck shut. Looked up this code and info, and it seems to be related to the throttle body. I found something that states there was a recall on this part, but I was never notified of this. I would like to get this problem fixed so I can drive my vehicle. I'm nervous about driving it as I have poor signal on my cell phone between home and work and dont want to be stranded. Please help me in anyway you can.
As I was driving at 50-55 miles an hour my vehicle bucked and lost power and when accelerating it feels as if the car is going to stall. When starting up from a complete stop the car will hesitate when trying to accelerate and bucks.
Going south on i81 to watertown, ny. Vehicle quit and I coasted to the side of the highway. Tractor-trailer behind me swerved to miss me. Almost hit a car coming off the exit ramp, had no power to excelerate to get by him. Could have been a wopper of an accident.
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ford escape. While driving 25 MPH and making a right turn, the vehicle slowed down without warning. The failure recurred multiple times. The vehicle was taken to a dealer for diagnostic testing, but was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 45,000. Updated 7/16/15*cn the consumer stated no accidents occurred but, there were a few near misses due to loss of speed. The failure occurred every time the vehicle was driven. Updated 9/22/2015
While traveling from virginia to michigan on pennsylvania turnpike at a speed of 75 MPH my cruise control switched off and the vehicle decelerated. I thought maybe it was because I hit a bump in the road so I tried to engage the cruise control again, it stayed on for a few minutes then disengaged again. This is not the first time this has happened, on a previous trip it did the same thing. I took my vehicle in to the dealer, they couldn't determine the cause. Obviously something isn't right, I've seen one other complaint about this.
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ford escape. The contact stated while driving with the vehicle on cruise control at 75 MPH, the vehicle decelerated. As a result, the vehicle stalled and the service engine soon warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The technician stated that the vehicle was operating as designed. The vehicle was then taken to a dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 47,000. The VIN was not available.
I was driving on a regular street in my area at the rate of 35. The speed limit is 40, so I decided to increase my speed to that of the speed limit. When I proceeded to accelerate, it appeared that the engine was just spinning, but not accelerating, when all of a sudden, it just lunged forward, not once, but twice. This was quite frightening as I had no advanced warning this was going to happen. After that incident, it appeared to be driving normal, until it happened again about a week later. I am afraid whenever I get behind the wheel now, but it is the only vehicle I own and I use it to get back and forth to work, so I am proceeding with extreme caution.
I was crossing a highway and when I stepped on the gas I had no power! Just a few weeks before it was at ford for a torque and steering recall. When I called ford to inform them what happened they said I will have to pay $130 for them to diagnose it! I'm not happy with fords response. This is a real danger and they need to take it serious!
While driving along my ford escape suddenly refused to accelerate, I was holding the gas to the floor and it wouldn't budge. It was idling strangely and surging. A wrench symbol appeared in the screen on the dash. I was on a hill and was unable to pull of the road. Luckily, no one was behind me. I waited a few moments and restarted the escape, it went and then continued to decelerate once again. I will be taking this back to the dealership to be fixed. But I am very concerned, upon researching the issue I found many more complaints online. Why hasn't this issue been recalled? It is highly dangerous and it is only a matter of time before the escape cuts off at the wrong time and gets someone killed. This needs to be addressed before it become an epidemic like the chevy cobalt.
While driving at 71 MPH with the cruise control on, I noticed a slowing down feeling, the cruise control light went off, the wrench light illuminated. I pulled to the berm. I turned off the engine. According to the manual it was the throttle. It took 2 tries to restart car, the wrench light went off. A ford dealership was 5 min. From incident. According to invoice, they performed throttle body update. I was told if the light came on again, it might need a throttle body. I asked if they could perform the work, they stated without the light being on, they couldn't do the work under the warranty. Meanwhile I was over 200 miles from home, and needed to get home. It felt so unsafe for 5hours of driving. The car has surges of power, downshifts with jolts, and clunking sounds when it does shift. This is how it drove from the beginning, I began to think it was normal so never reported it. Also, since the work was done I noticed the rpms at idling are high, I can pull into the garage without putting my foot on the gas the rpms are at 2 at 30 miles an hour, same as at 70 miles an hour. I'm contacting ford about the rules of the warranty and how unsafe it feels to drive the vehicle. How many accidents, deaths will it take to get the real work done, not a patch up job.
Driving down freeway at 85 miles per hour. Vehicle stalls and rpms or MPH won't move. Pull over put in park, vehicle shakes real bad and wrench comes on. Turn off and restart, wrench drops off. 50 miles down the road same instance, except after restarting wrench drops and check engine light comes on. Bring to dealership. Throttle actuator control system stuck open and they say possible recall. Week later going 65 down highway and same instance happens. Take it to different dealership and they say we have throttle body recall, they recalibrate the recall. Now vehicle doesn't always switch rpms when it's supposed to. It'll jerk before shifting and then wrench and check engine light comes back on. Back to dealership and they say throttle actuator control and possible new throttle body down the road. Spent almost 1000 dollars on recall in last couple months and now they telling us the recall was just a recalibration and but might need a new throttle body?? What was the recall for. Frustrated with ford.
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ford escape. The contact stated that while depressing the brake pedal, the vehicle accelerated independently and crashed into a garage without warning. There were no injuries reported. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired to determine the cause of the acceleration failure. The VIN was unavailable. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 25,000...updated 09-15-14 *bf updated 1/15/15
Shortly after purchasing the escape the engine seemed to quit when making a turn. Turning off the key and restarting the engine worked. Nothing for months and then it happened again. My wife thought the engine was quitting so I asked the dealer if they were aware of similar issues. All servicing was performed at ford until the warranty was out. Never a mention of any problems from the dealer.the engine continued to have intermittent issues and one day it happened when I was driving. I determined the engine was not quitting but would drop to about 1000 RPM with no throttle response. If you kept the transmission in drive the vehicle would decelerate quickly and sometimes would not allow moving to a safe location. Restarting the engine twice always resets the problem and it randomly happens at a later date. It is very intermittent and always happens without warning. It's getting worse with age.
My ford 2011 escape just completely stalled out driving home. I was on the highway going about 65 MPH when it just sputtered and died. I think I even had it on cruise control. It was extremely dangerous and I had to pull over in the middle of traffic. I forced the car into park and turned it off when it kept sputtering. Once I restarted the engine it drove some more but did the same thing about 3 minutes from my house. Turning the truck off then back on seemed to work...I'm taking into the ford dealership today to have the look at it but I think it is the throttle body...
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ford escape. The contact stated while driving approximately 60 MPH, the vehicle decelerated to 30 MPH without warning. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure and current mileage was 53,000.
The vehicle accelerated quickly from a stopped position upon starting in the morning. I have to put my foot on the brake to keep it from surging forward even though I have not pressed the gas peddle at all. Vehicle jolts forward suddenly during driving at slow speeds and often when starting from a stop. Also sometimes increases acceleration when coasting at a medium speed when no gas has been applied.
I was driving on highway when all of a sudden my 2011 ford escape started to accelerate and stop, accelerate and stop. I pulled over, turned the car off and restarted the vehicle. When I put the vehicle in drive vehicle accelerated while people were in front of car. No one was hurt. Had to tow to autozone to have them attach troubleshooting machine. Result was p2111 throttle actuator control system.
During rush hour traffic on a busy highway, my 18 year old daughter was attempting to accelerate from a legal right turn on red. With traffic approaching the gas pedal become unresponsive, she began quickly losing speed, she was in the right hand lane thank god with a turn lane and was able to pull over before slowing to a complete halt. Had she been in a center lane or on a stretch with no shoulder, there could have easily been a severe accident. The gas peddle just became totally unresponsive as she came to a stop. When she was completely stopped noticed the service engine light, a red battery light and wrench light all came on. Waited 10 min for me to get to her. We restarted car seemed fine. I took to ford dealer last night. Ford dealer called this morning as advised fuel throttle problem and said no problem warranty extended on that problem to 150,000 miles 10 years, you will not have to pay. Christ I'm not worried about paying. I"m worried about getting my family or someone else's family killed. Shame on ford for not recalling after all the complaints I have seen now. Something must be done now before major accident with deaths involved!!!!!
Sudden lost of acceleration at 70 MPH per our. Pushing on the pedal would not allow the car to accelerate. Pulled over restarted the car, tested accelerator in park and worked. Continued after pulling over same thing sudden lost of acceleration, car started to decelerating rapidly.
This is the 2nd incident with this vehicle, first time just stop middle of driving just shut down. Dealer did replace throttle body at 22,000 miles in nov 2013. This incident (4-16-14) I was sitting at stop light a few miles from home and vehicle shut off, I put vehicle in p and did restart. Dropped off vehicle at dealer and at this point they have no answer for this problem. Just feel unsafe in this vehicle esp on the highway at full speed with this problem seems like can be a dangerous situation for my family and others. At this point I really just need to know if this is a reported problem with this car and what are my options?
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