Three problems related to horn assembly have been reported for the 2010 Ford Escape. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2010 Ford Escape based on all problems reported for the 2010 Escape.
Whe leaving our home in haines city,FL. The vehicle roughly changed gears. Then we entered a very busy highway and went to accelerate and lost power,and acted like it wanted to stall the drive triain light then lit up. The vehicles behind blew their horns because the vehicle slowed substantialy without showing brake lights. We took the vehicle to the Ford garage ,and charged us for analizing the problem and the cost and installation of the throttlebody. The service representative told us he fthought it would be the throttle body,prior to analizing it. After researching Ford vehicle problems on the computer,I found that this is a common problem with the Ford vehicles. This is a problem that could cause very serious rea end collisions, and should be the responsibility of the Ford motor to repair and to resolve the problem. Thisshould not be a failur of this part on a vehicle with low mileage especially.
Was driving family back to out cabin in pigeon fodge TN, all of sudden in three lanes of traffic our SUV made a sudden surge and lost forward motion speed dropped and it would not go above 1 grand on tachometer. It would crawl but barley. Traffic behind me started blowing their horns. I hit the emergency lights. And started to getus off the parkway. We made it. The yellow wrench appeared on the dash and the SUV idled very ruff. I turned it off. Waited looked under the dash. Got the family out because it was hot outside. Then did not learn anything from hood up. Started the SUV back up and it ran. Got te family back in the SUV and went back to cabin. Thanks that is all I know. We have to go back home in morning so I hope I can make it 3 hour trip.
I had just turned left under an underpas and was in the middle lane under an overpass I remember thinking "wow. This is apowerful engine. " a car was coming in front of me and when I braked it did not slow down and I hit the car and that's all I remember when I came too the horn was blowing and two people were pounding on my windows and my emergency bag had deployed, I was released. They gave me first aid until the ambulance came, treated me and took me to the emergency room. The other driver was not injured. They kept me overnight. I believe because I had a concussion. I was very confused. They kept me overnight and went home the next day. The damage to my vehicle was in access of $16,000. 00.