Engine Failure Problems of Ford Escape Hybrid

The contact owns a 2007 Ford Escape Hybrid. While driving, the engine failed and the emission cooling system warning indicator illuminated. The failure was experienced several times. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnostic testing, but the mechanic was unable to locate a failure code. The dealer also test drove the vehicle, but was unable to duplicate the failure. The dealer replaced the battery filter several times; however, the failure was not corrected. The manufacturer stated that the vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 14v526000 (hybrid propulsion system). The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 87,000.

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After driving approximately 10 minutes on the freeway, a "stop safely now" message came up (without any other warning) and our car started to lose power and speed immediately. I was in the carpool lane and the flow of traffic on the 210 freeway was around 70 mph. I had to cut across 4 lanes of traffic and was barely able to make it before my car lost power completely. This is the third time this has happened to my husband or I in the past year. (each situation was similar to this one…and equally dangerous especially because there is zero warning). The car started up again immediately and I was able to exit the freeway before it happened again a few minutes later on side streets. I believe this is related to the hybrid coolant pump defect that I have seen others writing about online…all of the descriptions of the engine failure are similar. This needs to be recalled before someone is killed. Ford needs to step up and take responsibility!.

While driving at highway speeds for about 20 minutes, the gasoline engine died and a warning light came on saying to pull off the road safely. There was no other warning light (no high temperature warning). I drove slowly on electrical engine power until there was a safe place to pull off the road. After a few minutes parked there with the car turned off, I tried to start the car again. It started and I was able to drive home. I took the car to a dealer and he could see no reports in the computer and no evident cause for the engine to fail. He said to watch the temperature gauge. However, there is not a constant temperature gauge - it only comes up on the screen when there is a problem (and it did not come up when the engine failed). A week later, again on a longer drive (more than 20 minutes) at highway speeds, the car stalled and I was forced to pull over. The danger of pulling over on a multilane freeway is very scary. Over the next 30 minutes, I re-started the car and pulled back into traffic, only to have the gas engine die 5 more times. Eventually I was able to get home and take the escape in to a Ford dealership. The dealership immediately diagnosed it as a failure of the coolant pump and replaced it for $500. The mileage of my car was about 53,000 miles.

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