Car Stall problems of the 2010 Ford Escape - part 1

Engine was bucking, stalling at highway speeds nearly causing me to be in several accidents. (customer sat. Program 13n03).

Vehicle has taken to stalling/dying without warning. This has happened three times in the past week. The car was in gear and going approximately 20-25 mph each time this occurred. Fortunately, I was on residential streets with 25 mph limits and no cars were in the immediate vicinity on each occasion.

I purchased the vehicle just under 2 years ago ongoing issues the car will stall out/die while driving ac/heat causes issues I have had a ton of work done and the issues are reoccurring while diving on city street it has stalled out as well as in park. The cause of the issue is unknown.

Escape randomly stalls out and is unresponsive. Can be driving on highway, a mile for home or on 45mph streets. Unable to reproduce but happens at least once a week. Ford will not fix because they cannot reproduce. This is dangerous and unacceptable. Not acceptable to have a car randomly stall out on any street and manufacturer not willing or can't fix. Have seen other people reporting the same issue with their Ford Escapes but no resolution and no help from Ford. I've contacted dealerships and Ford service with same disappointing response. Keep spending money having dealership look at it in hopes they can reproduce it. Not a good use of anyone's time or money to do this when this seemingly is a problem that Ford is aware of based on my research.

Despite having the throttle body replaced, the vehicle still suffers from minor power surges and has stalled at highway speeds several times. These happen so randomly that it is difficult to predict when this might happen.

The contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. While driving approximately 65 mph, the vehicle stalled and lost power on several occasions. The contact also stated that the brake pedal stalled and the vehicle accelerated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The failure mileage was 64,000.

Car started stalling on a busy interstate and was brought to the next exit by driving on the shoulder and repeatedly restarting the engine. The local firestone garage seems to have fixed the problem by replacing the throttle body.

The contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle stalled without warning. In addition, after fueling the vehicle, the engine warning light illuminated continuously. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the purge valve needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 93,000.

The vehilcle went into a mode where it was able to keep throttling and was about to stall. It would throttle up and down on its own while moving. Powering off the vehicle corrected the issue for the time being.

I was sitting at a red light and my car completely turned off. When I realized the traffic light turned green I removed my foot from the break and on the gas before I realized that the car was not moving. I put my foot back on the break, put the car in park, turned on my hazards and turned the engine off. After 3-4 tries I was able to get the car started again. This was very scary because I was in la county rush hour traffic at the time and there was no way for me to pull over since the car stalled while I was at a complete stop. I was in the middle of the street with no engine power.

Tl- the contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. The contact stated that the vehicle stalled several times with no warning and the vehicle was taken to the dealer more than twice who diagnosed it several times with no remedy and the throttle body was replaced however the failure recurred . The mechanic mentioned that there was a fuel nozzle versus a fuel cap and the fuel was not properly circulating within the system which was causing the failure and the computer sends a signal which was shutting off the vehicle. The contact continued to experience the condition progressing randomly with no warning. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and they provided no remedy. The approximate failure mileage was 40,000. Dyd.

While on a busy 6 lane hwy. , I was at a center turn lane and completed my turn when light changed, then went to make my right turn on to the next road. . . . When my cars started to shake very badly and lost all power down to a crawl, and then stall, with cars behind me almost rear ending myself!! with horns blaring I was able to restart it to only have it do it again, only this time I was able to pull into the oil change shop there on that corner, where they checked for codes & found the "tac system stuck open". . . They checked all fluids and I drove to the local repair shop and went on to work to start researching the problem!!.

My family and I were traveling hw 113 in va coming back to PA from nc. My husband accelerated to pass a vehicle. After passing, our vehicle began losing acceleration. . . My husband pushed the gas pedal to the floor and was not getting any acceleration. The wrench light illuminated and we had to make an emergency stop on the side of the highway while cars were passing us and coming up on us quickly. We came to a stop and the vehicle began to stall. My husband shut the vehicle off, waiting a minute and restarted. The vehicle seemed to run fine the rest of the way to PA. We called the dealership the following day (Monday) and were told they could not get the vehicle in until 8/4. I began finding info on the web regarding Ford's customer satisfaction program 13n03 regarding the throttle body. I took the vehicle in and was told there were not any codes showing on the computer. They refused to replace the throttle body. I was told to drive the vehicle and if it happened again to bring it back. I refused and insisted they replace it. I am now still fighting with Ford to reimburse me. I have sent letters to Ford only to receive a "form letter" back from them suggesting that I take the vehicle to the dealership to determine if the throttle body needs replacement. . . I had it replaced already. . . They obviously do not read letters sent to them. I will keep fighting but I do not understand why the NHTSA continues to receive complaints about this issue and does nothing about it. It is a huge safety issue! shame on Ford and the NHTSA!.

The contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. The contact stated while turning a corner, the vehicle stalled. The contact was able to restart the vehicle. Also, the contact indicated that the vehicle had surged intermittently on multiple occasions. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 49,150.

I was driving to work on i75 at 75 mph when my 2010 Ford Escape lost power dropping to less than 20 mph. I was able to get from the left lane to the berm three lanes to my right. I waited about 5 minutes and restarted the car driving about 100 yds. When it happened again. I turned the car off and waited about 20 minutes then restarted and was able to get to work on side roads with the car surging and jerking along the way. I took the car to huntington Ford the next day and they could not find a cause. The following day I received a letter from Ford regarding what huntington referred to as a "limp home" mode which let take to a dealer and have the throttle body reprogrammed, which I did. The car was ok for a few days after that and then started stalling and surging again. I called the dealer and they said I should replace the throttle body but that even though it was under an extended warranty I would still need to pay for the replacement.

While making a left turn, the vehicle stalled and went into limp mode. Turned ignition off, waited 10 minutes, then cranked vehicle, and it ran normally. . . Updated 12/04/14.

Slowly approaching a stop sign, vehicle stalled. Battery light, wrench light, and oil light came on. Put the car in park to restart it, started and went on.

1st occurrence: I was driving at 35mph and suddenly my car surged forward then slowed down to 5mph. I tried to accelerate to a higher mph but it would not let me go any faster. I could steer and the radio was still on. Confused, I coasted off the side of the road, looked at the instrument panel for a light of some kind (none were there). I then turned off the engine and let it sit for approximately 2 minutes then it restarted and I drove home (about 1 1/2 miles) the 2nd occurrence - may 6th. I had just left my doctor's office, within 1 1/2 minutes & driving 15 mph (1/16 of a mile) the failure happened again. I again had to coast to the side of the road apply my hazard lights and turn off the engine for approximately 2 minutes. It re-started and I drove it home (it was intermediately surging forward) about 5 miles. The 3rd occurrence: may 8th on I-70 westbound :speed 60 mph: loss of power, coasted to the berm of the highway, ( thank goodness all the traffic was 1 mile behind me or this could have caused a serious accident) turned it off and waited about 2 minutes and restarted made it to work and home without further stalling but the jerking continued. I called interstate Ford (miamisburg) explained the problems I was experiencing and my fear to drive this vehicle.

The contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. The contact stated that the wrench warning icon illuminated and the vehicle stalled. The contact stated that the cruise control would deactivate when the wrench warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where the failure was unable to be determined. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unavailable.

Driving on highway using cruise control setting at 65 mph, when all of sudden vehicle began to slow down and stall on me. I had to pull over on the side of the road because the vehicle was shaking and I could not give it power to stay with traffic speed. I got to the side put the vehicle in park and it still was shaken so I turned it off. I then waited a minute or so and started the vehicle back up even though it was hesitating to start. Once back on I drove with my hazard on at a speed of 50 mph.

My wife was driving are Escape and she was merging on the freeway. While trying to merge on the freeway she was traveling 60 mph almost to highway speeds she went to merge in front of a truck and the Escape stalled. We were almost hit by the truck because the vehicle had lost all power. We took the vehicle to a dealership and the vehicle was diagnosed with a bad throttle body.

The contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. The contact was driving 5 mph and preparing to stop for a traffic stop when the vehicle stalled. The oil and battery warning lights were illuminated. The contact was able to restart the vehicle, which proceeded to operate normally. The vehicle had not been diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 86,150.

The car stalled while driving. The first time it stalled I was driving 65 mph with children in the car with me. After I came to a stop, the car restarted and after driving 2 more minutes it stalled again at 45 mph. After the second stall the engine light came on. I had a diagnostic report done and the report said "throttle actuator control system-stuck closed" and "detected the throttle plate is at a lower angle than commanded. " I hope this is resolved quickly. It is not covered under my warranty.

The contact owns a 2010 Ford Escape. The contact stated that while driving 50 mph, the vehicle stalled. The contact mentioned that the wrench warning icon illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic however, the technician was unable to diagnose the failure. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 68,500 and the current mileage was 68,771. Updated 12/30/cn the consumer stated the battery exploded. Updated 01/14/14.

The vehicle was traveling on the expressway when suddenly the car seemed to "stall" although it never actually stalled out, but rpms dropped to 800-1000 and would not respond to any throttle action . After turning the car off, waiting and starting again, the problem then resurfaced about a half mile later. I was again able to pull off, restart the car and continue normally. Once in a safe location (work), I was able to connect a obd-ii reader to the car and found the following: p2112: tac system stuck closed running a google search of the above error gave many many articles pointing to a throttle body issue. This issue was preceded by the car randomly stalling out (this time actual stalls). These happened at very random intervals for approx. 2-3 weeks before the expressway issue.

While driving, the vehicle will stall, or drop to about 800-900 rpm with no response from the accelerator. The "wrench" will come on the instrument panel, and the vehicle will sometimes stall/kill altogether. We have had the codes pulled by a technician, and they say that the "throttle body is stuck open", "the throttle body is stuck closed", and there is one more but I cannot recall it off the top of my head. I have called Ford and they have said that they do not have a known issue, nor is this a familiar problem per the symptoms. I have likewise done an internet search and found several complaints, and an NHTSA investigation launched. Please advise that this is a major security concern for me - yesterday I was traveling in the left lane of a major freeway, at freeway speeds, when my vehicle seemingly stalled, dropped to 800 rpms, and I had to cross 3 lanes of rush hour traffic to pull over to the shoulder to shut my car off, put it in park, then start it back up and merge back into traffic, then have it repeat the problem less than a mile later. This is a huge problem, and if not fully addressed by Ford, my fear is it is going to cause accidents if it hasn't already. Thank you in advance for your follow-up and support.

Throughout all of last winter, I had issues with my 2010 Ford Escape stalling. This occurred countless times, and nearly caused many accidents. It most frequently occurred when it was very cold (zero or below), and on some occasions would stall numerous times in a row, or fail to re-start. No warning light of any sort ever came on. After paying well over $1000 to get various things "fixed" that I was told would solve the problem, it continued happening. Then I received the first bulletin letter regarding throttle body issues and took my car to the Ford dealership in south burlington, vt. They proceeded to tell me that because they couldn't duplicate the issue, or get a code, they couldn't help me. A few weeks later when it happened again, the wrench light came on for the first time, so I drove directly to the dealership again. I was told once again that they couldn't fix the throttle body issue, and tried charging me over $300 for diagnosing my car (looking into the issue of why the wrench was illuminated). I refused to pay, because this is a Ford issue, it's well documented all over the internet, and it's something they need to pay for. My car is still not fixed.

Traveling on a major highway in the middle lane at 8:30 pm the truck started to hesitate and act like it wasn't running right. Then I lost total control of the accelerator but the car was still running. I had all I could do to try to coast over to the shoulder of the road to try and figure out what was wrong. Noticing that the accelerator did not engage at all, I turned off the truck and was going to call for a tow truck. That's when I decided to try and start it to see if I could get home on my own. Once I started the truck, it was like nothing happened and I continued home making it without a problem. Since then this has happened 3 other times, always on the highway, and the last 2 times it happened it, once the truck started back up and I drove off, I only got @ 3 miles down the same highway and it happened again, so I just repeated the procedure and hasn't happened since. I have gone ahead and purchased the new throttle body and am having my mechanic install it this week. I will be driving @ 60 miles one way, 120 miles total, a day for work starting this week and I can't afford to get stranded that far from home and loose time from work or not be able to get home. I've been told that at one point and time that the truck won't just start back up every time, so I'll be getting it fixed. Very disappointed that the truck that I purchased in April and only has @ 44000 miles on it would have such a major problem with such an important component. I've been told that they can't keep them on the shelves because there is such a huge problem overall. This can be very dangerous to someone who wouldn't know what to do in a crisis situation. On the box for the part it says Ford genuine parts, made in mexico. Nice!! maybe you want to rethink where you locate your parts factories. You know the old saying " nothing good is cheap and nothing cheap is good".

My daughter was driving to school and she informed me that she lost all acceleration and the vehicle began to jerk forward. This happened 3 times in four days. The engine light and a "wrench" light came on. I took the vehicle to a local Ford dealer approximately 20 miles away. The vehicle lost acceleration 10 times during the trip. The gas pedal would not work and the engine would lower to idle and begin to jerk, as if it were going to stall. I had to shut the engine off and wait a few minutes before cranking again. I would make it 100 yards to 3 miles between each incident. The Ford dealer stated that the throttle body needs replacing. It is being replaced this week. Luckily I had purchased an extended warranty that covers this repair or it would be over $400. 00.

2010 Ford Escape had been having an uneven idle while in drive with foot on brake. In this case, while accelerating at a stop light, the car would not accelerate and stalled with the engine and wrench light illuminating. Pulled over turned key to off position put car in park and restarted. Took to dealership that weekend. Technician witnessed the uneven idle. No codes would show up on computer. Technician re-calibrated idle. Car ran smooth for 3 days and uneven idle reappeared. Three weeks later when trying to accelerate from a stop sign, car went into "limp" mode; wrench light illuminated and would not accelerate. Next day while driving about 55 mph with cruise set I could feel "surges" in the engine. Took car off cruise, could still feel something just wasn't right. Uneven idle still persists although not consistently. Taking back to dealership today. Have done lots of research online and believe this may be connected to all the complaints with the throttle body.

I was driving on I-66 at about 60 mph and suddenly lost power. Luckily I was just approaching an exit in a rural area and was able to coast onto the ramp, which sloped downward ahead of me. The engine continued to run but at a very low rpm and there was no response to the gas pedal. The wrench symbol came onto the instrument panel. I had the car towed about 40 miles to my usual independent mechanic. After investigation, I was told that this was a throttle body problem. They installed a new throttle body and the problem has not returned for seven months.

Driving 70 mph on hyw truck just starts to stall no control of gas pedal cars almost crashed in to me I was lucky I was able to coast out of the way. Trouble code is p2111 needs a new throttle body that is on back order for a Ford national recall and I have to wait days to get, price for part is $380 . After a call to Ford customer service they said my car is not recalled but funny how the part number changed and it is the same one they have a recall on and they will not replace the part since my car is out of the 3 years 36,000 mile warranty my truck has 50,000 mile. Ford has lost a long time customer !!! buy american made !!!! thanks Ford ex owner of expedition, explorer, thunderbird, cougars, town car, 2 continentals no more Fords at my house. . . . . !!!!!!!.

Started accelerating from a stop light, vehicle stalled and would not go, however engine continued to idle. Wrench light on dash board came on. Turned ignition off then started vehicle back up. Vehicle ran fine and no codes were stored in computer. Condition has gotten so bad within a two week period that it has set the p2112 code for stuck open/stuck closed throttle body. It appears as if the throttle body will need to be replaced. This is a very unsafe condition as vehicle may stop on railroad tracks, in intersections, and while traveling down a highway at highway speeds. There is no warning with this condition.

While driving at approx 45mph, the vehicle's throttle dropped to idle speed. The accelerator would not allow the car's rpm's to increase despite pushing it to the floor. The car did not stall, but rather was in a sudden state of idle. After car's ignition was shut off, the car restarted without problem. However, the incident happened again the following day, nearly causing a serious accident as it happened in the midst of heavy traffic and there was nowhere to move the car. We took it to the dealer who could find nothing abnormal on the diagnostic computer. However based on the description of the problem, the dealer replaced the throttle body today and reprogrammed the power train control module at a cost of over $500.

Cruising at 60mph. Without warning, car slows, throttle unresponsive. Engine warning light on. Car did not stall, but would not respond to throttle. Coast to side of road, dodging traffic. Put car in park, restarted and everything was normal. As of oct 7, 2013 this has occurred five times. Code reader picks up no codes from engine pcm.