10.0

really awful
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
53,500 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. change throttle component (1 reports)
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problem #1

Mar 042021

Escape LS 3.2L

  • Automatic transmission
  • 53,500 miles

Yet more problems. With silent stop of engine at a stop light, it shuts off. I have learned that by keeping the throttle revved and putting lighter pressure on the brake was the only way to keep engine from turning completely off. This is not a problem at a low traffic stop sign bur very dangerous at a stop light on a busy highway. The problem and this is the twentieth time now that this has happened.

I come to a stop sign or stoplight put on the brake take my foot off the accelerator and stop - then engine goes into silent, not rev mode - then the light turns green and I take my foot off the brake, which means the brake lights to turn off signaling. I am proceeding to follow vehicles - but the engine has shut down and a light where the speedometer is located comes on letting me know I need to restart my engine.

At this time while restarting my engine large vehicles with angry drivers are loudly honking their horns. Usually this causes a four to five second gap in restart time which enables the car to proceed. The really bad part of this problem it only happens occasionally so most of the time a person can trust the vehicle but then it shuts off out of the blue so to speak. Curtis Vagneur, fifty years driving trucks, big buses, etc.

- Curtis V., Basalt, US