Ford Escape owners have reported a total of 35,250 problems for their cars built in the 27 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Ford Escape. The 2013 Ford Escape cars have the most problems reported (3,639 problems).
The following chart shows the 36 most common problems for Ford Escape cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's engine and engine cooling (9,164 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's power train (4,390 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Ford Escape of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Escape model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Ford Escape model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
| Escape Model Year | Problems | Sales [1] | Vehicle Age |
PPMY Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 475 | 135,665 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 606 | 82,685 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 2,391 | 206,357 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 702 | 225,475 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 2,071 | 310,804 | 8 | |
| 2017 | 3,146 | 431,227 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 1,302 | 265,762 | 10 | |
| 2015 | 1,285 | 244,083 | 11 | |
| 2014 | 2,604 | 370,760 | 12 | |
| 2013 | 3,639 | 310,761 | 13 | |
| 2012 | 775 | 233,516 | 14 | |
| 2011 | 1,792 | 199,523 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 2,990 | 189,956 | 16 | |
| 2009 | 2,263 | 131,288 | 17 | |
| 2008 | 2,326 | 220,837 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 329 | 96,744 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 588 | 134,421 | 20 | |
| 2005 | 1,954 | 244,677 | 21 | |
| 2004 | 687 | 106,745 | 22 | |
| 2003 | 672 | 152,508 | 23 | |
| 2002 | 1,178 | 159,953 | 24 | |
| 2001 | 1,108 | 153,854 | 25 |
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Ford Escape is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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