general problems of the 2017 Ford Escape

12 problems related to air bag have been reported for the 2017 Ford Escape. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2017 Ford Escape based on all problems reported for the 2017 Escape.

1 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 12/01/2025

Passenger side dash is seperating round the airbag area.

2 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 05/26/2025

The contact owns a 2017 Ford Escape. The contact stated while driving 65 mph, the passenger's side front end of the vehicle hit a cow and was significantly damaged. Several unknown warning lights were illuminated after the crash. The air bags failed to deploy. The contact sustained neck and back pain, and bruises on the chest from the seat belt. The contact received medical assistance. The vehicle was towed to an autobody repair shop. A police report was filed but the contact did not have the police report information available. The dealer and the manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 150,000.

3 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 02/09/2024

On 2/9/24, I was driving on the left lane of freeway (696) in southfield, mi. All of a sudden curtain airbags (both sides) deployed for no reason. The force/impact of the airbags felt like something extremely heavy or big landed on top of the roof. My vehicle slowed down automatically and then went into crash mode and was unable to start/drive. I stepped outside to look at my vehicle and not a scratch or dent was on my vehicle. I was not in an accident or anything. Was alarming/unsafe because I was on the freeway during 1:30pm which is busy at that time so I could have been in a massive wreck and if I had my 4month old in the vehicle she would have been crushed/dead. On 2/12-2/16 my vehicle was inspected by silverrock and they denied the claim being "outside influence". At that time my vehicle was at clover's collison (still is) and the owner ran diagnostics. From 2/16-2/21 I have been reaching out to carvana/silverrock and trying to have them take care of this for me but they did nothing. I called my progressive insurance on 2/21 and they sent an inspector out as well and on 2/23 they did not find anything that could have caused the airbags to deploy. I called Ford customer service/recall department to ask regarding a recall on this vehicle and nothing has been reported with this model. I am currently having clovers collison (easpointe) repair the vehicle out of my pocket ($6,000) since insurance/warranty/carvana is doing nothing to help with this case. I need to be able to drive and carvana/silverrock have put me in a huge/massive bind to where I need this vehicle to go to/from work. Driving from saint clair shores, mi to novi, mi everyday. Check engine lights, or any warning signs on my dash before this happened*.

4 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 10/17/2023

My son and I hit a deer and his back passenger seat seatbelt didn’t lock and my air bag light came on but they never deployed.

5 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 03/06/2023

The contact owned a 2017 Ford Escape. The contact stated while driving 35 mph the contact struck another vehicle in the middle of the passenger side, causing front end damages to the contact vehicle and the passenger side of the other vehicle. No air bags deploy. The contact seat belt retracted against the contact chest causing the pacemaker in the contact’s chest to be pushed back, and the contact glasses broke as well. The contact seek medical attention to make sure the pacemaker was not damaged; the other driver was not injured. A police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to a tow lot and was deemed total loss by the insurance company. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 20,000. The VIN was not available.

6 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 12/24/2021

I was in an accident 12/24/2021due to other parties at fault, and my air bags did not deploy. The diagnostic with the collision calliber (78216 zip code) reflected there was a faulty air bag and should have deployed . I suffered neck and back injuries. Half a year later my entire ac compressor needed to be replaced a month later my entire engine needs to be replaced (8700 price). I’ve only had this car over a year and work remotely. I have under 50k miles on this car and have had so many dangerous and unfortunate high cost issues. The.

7 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 11/25/2019

Air bag and stability control light on. Dealership found restraint control module short circuit. This is the same issue report back in 2014 campaign #14v597000. Seems issue was not addressed correctly.

8 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 04/05/2019

Air bags did not inflate from rear end accident. Vehicle was stopped at traffic light.

9 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 11/30/2018

Tl the contact owned a 2017 Ford Escape. While driving 35 mph, the contact's vehicle was t-boned by another vehicle exiting a parking lot. The contact's vehicle was pushed into a stop sign and a pole, and landed in a ditch. None of the air bags deployed inside the vehicle. Instead, the air bags deployed outwardly, which caused the front passenger tire to detach from the vehicle. A police report was filed. The vehicle was totaled by the insurance company and towed. The contact smelled a burning odor, but there was no fire. The contact and a passenger were injured and transported by ambulance to the hospital. The contact spoke with the takata manufacturer, but received no assistance. The dealer and manufacturer were not contacted. The cause of the failure was not determined. The VIN and failure mileage were unknown.

10 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 01/17/2018

I was driving my car at 45 mph when another car cut in front of me and we connected. I pushed her car over a stop sign. My face and body hit the drivers window causing a neck and back injury and 9000 damage to my car that had 2300 miles on it last Jan. 17th. Why did my air bags did not go off to protect me?.

11 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 12/22/2017

Front collision car was total loss no air bags deployed front side nothing. On freeway going west 70 miles per hour was cut off while braking ran into back of parked full size SUV out of gas in the medium off the freeway.

12 Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 11/20/2017

Vehicle was involved in three vehicle crash November 20, 2017. Vehicle was traveling through an intersection on a green light and was impacted on the side by another vehicle and rotated/rolled into a third vehicle. No airbags deployed during this incident. Vehicle had over $28k worth do damage including significant frame and structural damage. Occupants of the vehicle stuffed extreme bruising, a concussion and loss of skin from impacting inside sides of vehicle.


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