Daughter was driving car, had a tire blow out, and car suddenly accelerated out of control. She tried shifting gears, using brakes, and pulling parking brake to no avail. She crashed into parked cars after traveling about 200 yards uphill. Witnesses say she was going about 30 to 40 MPH. After the blowout, which happened as she was leaving a stop. Car will not be repaired, will be junked. It is too dangerous for anyone to drive.
1997 Ford Escort: sudden unintended acceleration
9 of the 543 complaints about the 1997 Ford Escort describe sudden unintended acceleration.
- owner complaints
- 9
- of this car's complaints
- 2%
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? 1 service bulletin covers this area of the car. See below
Sudden unintended acceleration by model year
What owners say
Unintended accelleration. Within the last 12 months, on approximately 6 occasions, the vehicle would suddenly accelerate when braking to a stop. The vehicle would be placed immediately into neutral and the idle speed would return to normal. This was not caused by floormats or inadvertant pressing of the gas pedal.
Intermittently sudden acceleration occurred while driving or braking. This resulted in a rear end collision. Also, while the mechanic was test driving the vehicle, sudden acceleration occurred, which resulted in front bumper damage. Mechanic replaced several components, but the problem still occurred. Dealership was contacted and performed a eec test, in which ,the dtc code was pu1143, bad purge fuel. Intake air hose was loose. Dealership tightened the clamp, and a sensor was replaced. Sudden acceleration occurred 3 times after the dealership serviced the vehicle.
While pulling into parking lot with foot on the brake the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a building, again with foot on brake the consumer put the vehicle into reverse and the vehicle accelerated backwards and crashed into a sand pile and building, the sandpile plugged the tailed pipe causing vehicle to stall, accident resulted in 1 injury. Nlm
Idle air control valve failure resuliting in idle being erretic will race up to 2,500 RPM by it's self and when in gear sudden acceleration also engine fan will not shut off even when key is off
Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration on two occasions, first incident resulted in collision with property. Mjs
Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration resulting in vehicle collision.
Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration on several occasions.
Sudden acceleration on several occasions, on two occasion minor accidents occurred.
Service bulletins that may apply
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 1997 Ford Escort sudden acceleration
Is sudden unintended acceleration a common problem on the 1997 Ford Escort?
9 of 543 owner complaints about the 1997 Ford Escort (2%) mention sudden unintended acceleration. The model year with the most reports is 1993.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 1997 Ford Escort?
There are 0 recalls and 1 service bulletin for the same area of the car. Check them below with your VIN.
Other symptoms on the 1997 Ford Escort
Fire or smoke 47Airbag light 33Coil spring 30Stalling 22No deployment 14Ball joint 13Brake failure 12Check engine light 11Grinding brakes 9Headlights 8Loss of power 6Transmission failure 6
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