Brake Master Cylinder problems of the 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid

While coming up to a stop sign the brakes stopped working. Luckily there were no cars in front of me as the car continued to roll pass the stop sign. Flooring the brakes caused the car to slow down slowly. I ended up pulling over immediately, turning off the vehicle and inspecting the vehicle. I saw no clear indication of anything being wrong. When I turned back on the vehicle everything was fine, until the same thing happened the next day. I took the car to a few car shops but no one could find anything wrong with it. The car was even taken for a test drive by the mechanic but performed with no problems. One of the shops recommended I replace the master cylinder or the hydraulic control unit but could not guarantee the problem would never occur again. I don't feel comfortable paying so much for a non guaranteed job so unfortunately I am still driving the vehicle and the brakes continues to stop working at random times.

I pressed on the brake peddle. It was very loose and depressed easily about 1 inch, then stopped abruptly and held firm without slowing the car at all. After pressing down harder without being able to budge the brakes, I lifted and reapplied the brakes. This time they worked. The same thing happened again a coupe days later. I took it in to the Ford dealer and they told me the abs module and master cylinder needed to be replaced. From my research, faulty master cylinder and abs module are common for this vehicle.

My brakes have a very hard pedal from time to time. Requiring me to pump the brakes to stop. My Ford dealer tells me it is the master cylinder and it will cost $3000. 00 to repair. They also state that they are not sure this will fix the problem. (remember this is a hybrid and brakes are different) second issue is the electric drive train does not allow the engine to shut down under 30 mph like it is supposed to due under 30 mph. At times this requires extra breaking because the engine does not idle down like it should. Ford seems to be aware of these problems. I found several complaints on the web describing the same problems. It seems Ford has done very little to assist the customers, or to correct the problem.

2005 Escape Hybrid brake failure. I tried to stop and brakes only went half way down. I released and pushed again, had to use emergency brake to stop otherwise I would have gone through a store front window. Took to Ford dealer and found out it was the master cylinder/solenoid. Per Ford's technical service bulletin 0585 issued 8/5/05, this is a known issue corrected by installing a revised master cylinder. This could have killed me and the people inside the business. If this is a known, very dangerous problem, there should be a recall.

We have experienced an unusual problem with the braking system in out 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid. There have been may episodes of the yellow abs and the red brake warning lamp lighting up and the alarm sounding over the past year. This would happen for a couple of days and then after shutting-off the vehicle and restarting, the brakes returned to normal operation. We spoke with the service department at our dealership about this and because the warning light wasn't on at the time, they said there was nothing they could do to detect the problem. The last time this happened the brakes reverted to fail safe mode requiring a "pedal to the floor" effort to slow the vehicle to a safe stop luckily while pulling into our driveway . After this we had the car towed to the dealer and were told we needed a new "hcu" unit and master cylinder with a total repair cost of $4k+. I decided to do some research and discovered many cases of the exact same thing happening with the same year and model escape. We are going to wait a few days to think before moving forward with the repair.

The contact owns a 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid. The contact stated that the brake pedal traveled to the floorboard when depressed. The vehicle was taken to the dealer (tommie vaughn Ford, 1201 n shepherd dr, houston, TX 77008, (713) 869-4661) several times and they were unable to provide a solution. The failure continued. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer and a multi-point inspection was performed. The dealer determined that the brake master cylinder and the hcu needed to be replaced. The manufacturer had eight tsbs for the service brakes, hydraulics and one for the service brakes, air. There was no recall campaign. The vehicle was still at the dealer to be serviced with no solution other than replacing the parts. The failure mileage was not available.

2005 Ford Escape Hybrid. Problem is failure of hybrid regenerative brake system as described in Ford's technical service bulletin, TSB 05-8-5 (August 5, 2005) (NHTSA id #10017553). Problem had occurred sporadically after the warranty period, but without any known incident to have triggered the problem. Repair has required replacement of the master cylinder and the brake system's hydraulic control unit ("hcu"). Total cost has been about $7,000. To summarize my correspondence from Ford. . . "since the national highway traffic safety administration ("NHTSA") is not concerned (I. E. Nobody has gotten killed by these defective brakes) there is no need for a recall. Therefore, Ford has no responsibility to pay for or deal with my problem. . Read more...