Front Seat Heater/cooler Problems of Ford Escape

The seats have metal protruding from the rear portion where your tailbone would rest. It's not just uncomfortable, it becomes painful the longer you drive. I was told the seat heaters were improperly installed in the beginning of the manufacture process for 2020 Ford Escapes. If they know they installed them incorrectly, why won't they fix their mistake?.

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I turned on my seat warmer on driver's seat and heater, within a minute or so smoke started coming out bottom part of control panel where it meets the console. The smoke got worse. I was in the middle lane of heavy traffic and had a difficult time getting over to turn off and get stopped. By this time the smoke was quite bad (had electrical smell) I had all windows down & sun roof open. The car alarm went off, the heater would not turn off. I finally got stopped and got out of the vehicle. A lady pulled in to the church parking area where I was and called 911 for me. By this time you could see actual fire (flames) coming from the same spot as smoke. It was amazing how quickly it was in flames. The vehicle blew up. The fire department arrived in time to put out the fire. The only thing left is the metal shell and the tires. Nothing in the interior. All windows and sunroof blew out. Bumpers, lights, tail lights melted. Thanks Ford.

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While sitting idle at a stop light the seat heater in the driver's seat ignited the upper portion of the seat, causing the seat to burn and filling the cabin with smoke. The seat then caused my husband's jacket to start on fire. The fire in the vehicle had to be extinguished by packing it with snow.

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Victim was driving vehicle and noticed smell of smoke. Victim felt vehicle seat was extremely hot. Victim pulled over, stopped vehicle, and stepped out of vehicle. Victim noticed that seat had a small burn hole in it caused by a malfunction in the seat warmer accessory. Victim had seat warmer accessory engaged at the time of the incident. Victim did not sustain bodily injury. Vehicle was returned to selling dealer (jordan Ford located in mishawaka, in) for repairs which were performed under warranty.

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