2015 Ford Escape acceleration complaints

Filed Feb 13, 2019 · Acceleration, Engine · 78,700 miles · CA · crash

Vehicle stalls while driving on city roads. Have had conditions where we are driving at 30 miles/hr and car starts switching off with check engine light and oil light and battery light coming on. Vehicle will not move properly until I switch it off an on again. Has caused 1 accident and 2 almost accidents where car was rear ended due to stalling. There are no codes to say what is wrong and ford states everything is fine

Filed Jun 16, 2017 · Acceleration, Airbags · 41,000 miles · NM

Electric throttle body failure and limp mode causes unsafe break downs: while driving on the highway at about 70 MPH the highway my car very rapidly decelerated and several service lights turned on. I was able to pull off of the highway and ran a vehicle health report. The report indicated a failure to the restraint system (defined as airbags or seatbelt). This means that if the sudden deceleration without brake lights had caused a collision the airbags may have also malfunctioned. In addition to the safety system malfunction a powertrain malfunction, and tc, ivd, rsc event of fault was reported. I took the car to a dealership and they diagnosed the problem as a electric throttle body malfunction. They said it was a very common problem. It doesn't seem safe to have a car rapidly decelerate itself when a part fails especially if that causes the computer to reports a safety system malfunction as well.

Filed Dec 7, 2015 · Acceleration, Engine · 20,600 miles · OH

Engine fails to accelerate from stop. (random) while in pittsburgh traffic, vehicle runs fine, stop at stop light or stop sign waiting for traffic to pass. Try to take off and vehicle starts moving like it should and then suddenly loses acceleration, engine is unresponsive to throttle, rpms go down to just above idle with gas pedal pressed to floor, idle when released. This is a safety issue, can cause a major accident if not conscience of traffic around you and keeping in mind that the car may act up when pulling into traffic. It is in dealership now, ford technicians are having a hard time finding culprit of problem.

Filed Nov 30, 2015 · Acceleration · 12,000 miles · NY

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 ford escape. While driving at a low speed, the vehicle accelerated in excess independently. The failure recurred on numerous occasions. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 12,000. The VIN was unavailable.