2017 Ford Escape

My mom has always kept up all maintenance and car has never produced a check engine light. When driving to work the other day she started having engine problems. Had it immediately towed to the Ford dealership and they said the engine was blown. The technician says he sees it quite often on this model car from water leaking into engine. The technician tried to get ford to fix it but to no avail. The car has 54,000 miles on it and 3 months over the 7 year warranty. I see many other postings on this car and it is time for someone to do something. No car should only go 54,000 miles when well taken care of. Thanks

The vehicle lost power while driving nearly causing a rear end collision. There was no warning when incident occurred. Check engine light illuminated with code for misfire on number 1 cylinder and misc misfire. After this happened I’m constantly adding coolant to engine. When I first start the vehicle coolant smell and steam from tail pipe. Did not take to dealership because of cost involved for verification and dealership said new engine would cost approx 10000.

The contact called on behalf of his daughter who owns a 2017 Ford Escape. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the engine was misfiring. The contact stated that the failure persisted and the engine overheated. The contact was able to pull the vehicle to the side of the road, where white smoke was coming from the front of the vehicle near the engine compartment. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer where it was diagnosed with coolant intrusion into cylinder #1. The vehicle was not repaired and remained with the dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred the contact to the NHTSA Hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 75,000.

The contact owns a 2017 Ford Escape. The contact stated while driving 35 MPH, the check engine and engine overheated warning lights illuminated. The vehicle went into low power mode, and the contact parked and turned off the vehicle. The contact stated that the failure was related to Customer Satisfaction Program: 21N12. The vehicle was towed to her daughter's residence. The daughter is a mechanic instructor, and her husband is a mechanic who determined that the head gasket was blown, and the engine needed to be replaced. The local dealer was contacted and informed the contact that a diagnostic test needed to be performed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted, and a case was opened, and the contact was referred to the NHTSA Hotline. The failure mileage was approximately 110,766.

2017 Ford Escape, only owner, just out of warranty. Service engine light came on and vehicle seemed to have an odd sound when first started in the mornings, took to dealership and was told cause was cylinder 4 misfire, had low coolant and the pressure test showed cooling system-coolant intrusion into cylinder 4. I was given an estimate of $7300 to replace short block per TSB 22-2322. My vehicle has a little less than 40,000 miles on it, and just had an oil change with inspection about a month and half ago with no issues found. Don’t know how I can have a cracked block with less than 40,000 miles. I believe this to be a factory defect, and have seen many other complaints online about the same issue. I did see that Ford had a recall for this same issue on the 2017 Ford Escape ecoboost.?.?.? I believe there should be a recall on my vehicle also. I have maintained my vehicle and do not drive it hard.

The vehicle began idling rough when starting and was also blowing white exhaust smoke, which triggered an engine code. We took the vehicle to a local mechanic who ran the engine codes that had been pulled from the vehicle and determined that it was related to a TSB that involved coolant leaking into the engine possibly due to an intake manifold bolt backing out which caused damage due to coolant subsequently leaking into the engine. We took to our dealer who advised us that Ford will not do anything for us due to vehicle not being under warranty, even though this was an ongoing concern that Ford was aware of for quite some time.