general problems of the 2001 Ford Escape

I've recently got a new battery, O2 sensor and alternator and my car keeps shutting off in drive.

The contact owns a 2001 Ford Escape. While accelerating from a stop light, the vehicle shook, stalled, and all the lights on the instrument panel illuminated. The vehicle was restarted, but the failure recurred twice. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 04v175000 (power train). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 115,000.

The contact owns a 2001 Ford Escape. While driving approximately 70 mph, the transmission suddenly switched to reverse and drove backwards. After the incident, the vehicle would not operate in reverse. The cause of the failure was not diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 100,000.

Tl-the contact owns a 2001 Ford Escape. The contact stated that while driving at an unknown speed, the transmission seized into second gear. The contact was unable to shift the vehicle into park or any other gear. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 150,000. The VIN was not available. Djr.

The contact owns a 2001 Ford Escape. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds and attempting to reduce speed, the vehicle stalled. In addition, the contact stated that on several occasions while at a stop light, the engine stalled. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not included in the NHTSA campaign number 04v165000 (power train). The failure mileage was 170,000.

Tl-the contact owns a 2001 Ford Escape. The contact stated that the gear shifter failed. While, the contact reversed out of the drive way, the gear failed to shift out of reverse, caused contact to lose control of the vehicle and crashed into a parked vehicle. The drive frontal air bag failed to deploy. The contact suffered injuries at the right side lower back. The vehicle was towed to a towyard. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure and current mileage was 109,050. Li.

When vehicle is at a stop with the brakes applied at either a red light, stop sign, or traffic, the car jerks to move forward. This does not happen all the time, it has been doing this since the beginning of the year. Ford dealership replaced an abs ring that was cracked. They said, this is causing the vehicle to move forward because the abs is trying to engage.

Fifth time vehicle has been to the dealership for the same problem. Vehicle is stopped at a red light or in traffic, the vehicle lunges forward with the brakes applied. Daughter took it back to the same dealership and they thought they fixed the problem. She was on her way back to college. . . 4 miles from the house at a red light. She called and said the vehicle was still doing what it was doing before. This needs to be investigated and a recall issued.

Dear sirs, as you are aware, this past weekend on the san mateo bridge in hayward CA, a horrific accident/fire occurred with a limousine, where five individuals were trapped and killed due to a vehicle fire. Upon seeing and hearing about this horrific tragedy, my wife insisted that we have all of the recalls performed on our 2001 Ford Escape. Much to my surprise, when I took our Escape into fremont Ford on may 7th, michael ferrer, the assistant service manager, told me that he was refusing to perform all of the recalls on our truck, because they have expired. As the original owner and primary driver of this vehicle, please explain to me how recalls involving safety issues expire? is this a Ford company policy or a fremont Ford dealership/service policy? when I picked up our Escape on may 8th from the dealership, I documented on the paperwork that they refused to perform these very important recalls. I am not comfortable driving this vehicle in light of the tragedy that occurred this past weekend. Please advise how you would like to move forward concerning this very important matter. Thank you for your assistance.

2001 Ford Escape XLT 3. 0l v6 awd - xxxxxxxx41kf78656 daughter sitting at a red light or in traffic with the brake applied, the vehicle tries to move forward. She explained it as jerking forward. This has happen on several occasions with her. Vehicle was taken straight to sheehy Ford of warrenton, va dealership. They were able to find a crack abs ring that they said was the cause for the jerking while the brake was applied. Replaced the part. Experienced the same thing on the way home. Returned it to Ford dealership. They were not able recreate the problem so they said nothing was wrong with the vehicle. This vehicle has a total of 13 recalls according to automd. Com. According to Ford. Com website, this vehicle has no recalls listed. They have a couple listed that should be added to my daughters vehicle: 2001 Ford Escape power train recall 04v165000: campaign number: 04v165000: date manufactured: Apr 14, 2004, vehicles affected: 321903: component: power train status: not done 2001 for Escape service brake, hydraulic recall 12v005000 - not done please investigate this as it is a big problem when its a teenager driving.

My "stick shift" 2001 Ford Escape tends to stall when the clutch is pushed in, clear to the floor. The engine would die and leave me stranded everywhere. Even if you are driving down the road at 45mph or higher, once you push in the clutch to change to the last gear, it will still stall at high speeds. The engine completely cuts off, but only when you push in the clutch. Once this happens, it will not stay running. It will restart for just a few seconds, (not the battery or starter) then it will die again, repeatedly. It would get towed to the nearest dealership with no luck. They could not "duplicate the problem". Once, the car cools off, then the problem disappears. There is a valve the heats up and gets stuck open. If the valve cools down, it can close and then it is fine. Now, if I make alot of short stops (errands) where the car doesn't get a chance to cool off, say ten minutes or less, then it won't stay started. If you turn over the ignition, it will start, but immediately dies. However, if I let the car sit for say a couple of hours, say 4-6 hours. It will start back up just fine and stay running like nothing ever happened. The key tip don't put ethanol in the gas tank. If I buy the most expensive gas, the problem tends to clear up on it's own. It started doing it again this summer. Once I changed to the primo (most expensive) gas, it has now stopped without taking it to a dealership. Personally, I think gas containing ethanol has too much moisture in it causing this problem. Even the dealership told me that this Ford Escape car is not designed to run on "ethanol" products. This all mostly happens when it is very hot and humid outside. Was just wondering if anyone else had this problem and if it would qualify for others as a recall item?.

Gearshift cable broke.

I just bought a used 2001 Ford Escape v6 on Dec 13th 2002. On 1 Feb 2003, while driving down a hill, the car's engine stalled completely. With much difficulty, due to loss of all power, I was able to stop the car before it entered the intersection on a red light. I put it in park and it did start up again. I called the westland Ford service dept. They said they had never heard of that happening. I asked if they could put it through a diagnostics check and find out what's wrong. They said unless it's happening when the car is there they probably wouldn't find anything. I called the Ford customer service and they also said they had never heard of that happening. They agreed that it would be hard to diagnose the cause. They said they would submit my complaint to engineering. . . Since I bought the car used, it's not under warranty. I feel that they sold this car to me knowing that it had a problem. Do I have any recourse? help!.