Brake Drum Wheel Cylinder Problems of Ford Escape

Tl- the contact owns a 2002 Ford Escape. The contact stated that the vehicle ignited while parked in her driveway. The fire department was called and they found the master brake cylinder and the cruise control cables were melted. A fire department report was filed. The vehicle was totaled and still in the driveway. The dealer missoula Ford 3943 brooks st, missoula, mt 59804 and the manufacturer were contacted but had not called back. The contact stated that she never received a recall notice, even though there are two recalls NHTSA notice number: 12v-005000 (service brakes, hydraulic) and 12v-353000 (engine and engine cooling, vehicle speed control). The failure mileage was 145,000. Tf.

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It was a heavy rainy night when windshield wipers started acting up with their rhythm making it hard to see through a slightly blurred windshield then windshield & sunroof starts leaking water all over me,inside the front light switch,down into floor boards plus all in the seats !! if that wasn't enough I was slowing down to go around a few curves when brakes acted like they didn't want me to stop scary. Key is hard & sticky feeling to turn in ignition cylinder therefore making the ignition switch not being able to catch any voltage at all to start the engine. . After a million tries it'll finally start. . It still leaks,very hard to start & replacing brakes again. . .

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On 12/23/14, vehicle cut out after backing out of parking to enter moving traffic on highway. The second time it cut out,12/24/14, the vehicle was being driven down the roadway. That time, the vehicle sputtered, sounded like a winded horse, running on three legs. My car was always well maintained, including oil changes every 3,000 miles, transmission flushes every year, fuel injection cleaning every other year. With the double timing chain, I was assured at purchase, that they rarely break. I could not understand what had caused this. Then, I am told it is a pcm failure caused by spark plugs , coils, that were not compatible with the pcm, or where the resistor was ineffective to combat the feedback from the coils/ spark plugs, and therefore caused the computer to shut down three cylinders of my engine. Apparently there were TSB bulletins to dealerships on this issue, but no recalls, because Ford determined that the pcm failure would probably occur post-warranty. However, car owners should have been notified, there should have been a recall. I was in the last few months of paying for this vehicle, and am faced with a $2500 bill, that I do not deserve, because it is in no way linked to my own negligence of vehicle maintenance! to me, it is a form of built-in obsolescence, that might be ok with small-cost items like watches, but should never be allowed with high-cost items, such as cars!.

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I have had three or four incidents when I hit my brakes and my vehicle felt as if it was still accelerating. I wonder if the recent recall could affect 4-cylinder vehicles as well.

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No pressure when depressing brake to make emergency stop. Pedal went to floor. No prior indication of any problem. On inspection, front left brake hose had ruptured causing total loss of all braking capability. Extremely lucky not to be going 70 mph on the freeway! still waiting for part for brake cylinder cap recall issued in January! if NHTSA are going to require companies to issue recalls perhaps you should also follow up to ensure compliance by which I mean the satisfactory completion of the recall not simply the issuing thereof.

While pulling into my driveway, my breaks suddenly failed, which caused me to (thankfully no more than) run into the tree at the end of my driveway. Upon inspection, I realized that my passenger side brake line that connects to the wheel cylinder had failed due to deterioration. After replacing, and inspection of the driver side, that brake line too was deteriorated to the point of imminent failure.

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