10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
2 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
135,631 miles

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problem #6

Nov 182010

Escape Hybrid 4-cyl

  • 33,000 miles
I have a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid. While driving downhill and while braking, power steering seemed to fail completely for 3-5 seconds. Steering did not lock completely, it seemed, but it took real strength to move it as I was going around a gentle curve. I'm not sure my wife could have done same. Potentially very dangerous. Car is with dealership now.

- Santa Monica, CA, USA

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problem #5

Jan 082010

Escape Hybrid

  • 35,000 miles
Steering wheel locked at 12,000 miles and a third time at 35,000 (once in between) for a total of three times. Tire wear very odd, touchy braking.

- Healdsburg, CA, USA

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problem #4

May 222010

Escape Hybrid

  • 38,701 miles
I have a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid. While turning I have lost steering, the steering wheel becomes difficult to turn and the vehicle did not turn, it lasts approx 5 seconds and then works again, this has happened two times in 4 days and once almost causing me to crash into another vehicle. I took escape to Ford dealership where I was told they could not do anything because they can not find the problem. They said they tried to recreate it and were unable to do so (they only drove my escape 2 miles the entire 2 days they had it). I have noticed, always while driving straight, that sometimes when the engine switches from gas to electric there is sometimes a sudden difference in steering wheel tension, almost like the power steering turns off for a few seconds.

- Columbia, TN, USA

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problem #3

Mar 102010

Escape Hybrid

  • 44,000 miles
While slowing down to make a turn onto another street, the steering wheel 'locked' and would not turn. I jammed on the brakes to stop before hitting the vehicle that was waiting to pull out. I pulled hard on the steering wheel and it finally moved. After that, it went back to normal operation. This is a very dangerous situation. It has not done it since, but makes me nervous when driving it. I have not contacted the Ford dealer yet.

- Leitchfield, KY, USA

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problem #2

Jan 152010

Escape Hybrid

  • 12,000 miles
Lost complete steering control twice while driving.

- Cabot, AR, USA

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problem #1

Feb 182010

Escape Hybrid

  • 28,000 miles
While return home on I70 freeway going downhill at approx. 70mph the electrical assisted power steering quit working. The vehicle was very hard, but not impossible, to steer going around a curve. This only lasted a few seconds then it started working again...

- Aurora , CO, USA

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