2012 Ford Escape
This year drew an ordinary 1,198 complaints for a Ford Escape — the model's median is 1,077. What they were about is the unusual part: 19% of them mention fuel, against 4.9% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Ford Escape ran from 2008 to 2012, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,198 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,077 |
| Involving a crash | 77 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 3/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 19% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the other years of this generation (3.9×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
RECALL NOTICE RECEIVED IN JANUARY 2018. PARTS STILL NOT AVAILABLE FOR REPAIR TO FUEL INTAKE.
GET CK FUEL FILL INLET WARNING, THEN GET CHK ENGINE LIGHT CODE IS P0457.SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY .
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V777000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 15E045000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Escape was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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