We have classified the 110 complaints from 2009 Ford Escape about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM into the following categories.
Tire pressure light comes on and and dome light blinks when the car is running all of the time.
Power steering assist fault recall
Highway speeds. wrench light comes on and vehicle loses all power/throttle response. pull off road, put vehicle in park, restart and computer seems to reset. had been 1-2 times per year over the last couple of years and struggled to diagnose problem. happened 8 times in 150 mile trip today.
Steering has completely frozen during operation making controlling the vehicle virtually impossible. i'm absolutely petrified to drive my vehicle. these problems are very irresponsible on fords behalf. on a straight road traveling about 25-30 mph. next i had a left turn coming and my steering wheel failed to turn, and almost ran into another vehicle head on. to say i'm petrified of my vehicle at this point is a gross understatement.
My wife was driving down the highway when her escape just kept shutting down to the point she almost got rear ended at 65-70mph. ford had a field service action on this issue is a faulty electronic throttle body malfunction that never made it as a recall. i tried to get ford to restart this field service as they said my wife's car was past the warranty. needs to be as a recall not a field service complaint she could have been severely injured or died from this i am out $150 and half day of work to fix this because ford won't do a recall to save their ass.
Power steering failure. exact failure as reported under ford recall # 14s05 but this specific vin# is not a part of the recall. power steering failed while driving. could have potentially resulted in loss of control and crash.
The vehicle is having electrical issues . the for dealer says its a sensor but it has thrown out my power steering
While traveling at 35mph on a city street an alert sounded on the vehicle followed by a message stating power steering assist fault. vehicle immediately became hard to steer and nearly resulted in a collusion. managed to pull vehicle in a parking lot and message continued to be displayed after restarting vehicle. contacted tow service to have vehicle towed to dealership.
I happen to see it's a lot of recalls on the ford escapes i typed my vinland it shows zero recalls but i'm actually having the same problems that the recalls have my ford escape powersteering asist fault screen can't up now it's hard to turn and what not before this screen popped up i hadd another screen telling me tire sensor fault this problem is well common i actually think they need to recall more vehicles
Takata recall since i bought this car a lot of problems with electrics issue sensors, power steering, ignition, speeding sensors, (all electrics) the worst one is power steering. there was a recall on line for this model but not for my car. (why not my car?) there are in recall all 2008 - 2011 ford escapes
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford escape. while driving and making a left turn, the vehicle jerked and the power steering warning indicator illuminated. the steering wheel seized. the contact coasted the vehicle to the side of the road and powered off the engine. the vehicle was restarted and was driven to the contact's residence. the vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing. the manufacturer was notified of the failure and informed the contact that the vin was not included in a recall. the approximate failure mileage was 103,602.
The instrument panel lights and gauges went out at which time i noticed the power steering and turn signals didn't work. this happened 3 or times on a 30 minute drive with a duration of about 30-45 seconds each
Complete loss of power steering during any point in driving.
Power steering went out while driving with no warning so there was a recall on some but not all escapes on a city street while i was turning at an intersection
The ignition switch isnt always starting the car when turned. sometimes it has to be turned multiple times before it will finally start the car. this has gradually gotten worse over the the last few months.