When I started it back up, the temp gauge was almost to the the top, but very quickly came back down to normal, the coolant light warning was off with just the check engine light on. Luckily I was able to pull over safely (albeit across two lanes of rush hour traffic) and turned off the car. I heard a ding and the low coolant warning light came on followed immediately by another ding with the 'engine overheating' warning and within 3 seconds the engine shut down, stopped, said NOPE, quit and all the dash lights came on. I'm about 1050 miles away from my next oil change but that's about it. I had purchased my 2013 Escape SE AWD 1.6L L4 DOHC 16V last January at 59k miles (currently at 81+k miles) and haven't had any issues (other than immediately replacing the lugnuts after my first flat tire two days after having the car) - I do my regularly scheduled oil changes and such. Sad that's the extent of resolving this serious of a problem! Thankfully no one got hurt before I resolved it. Ford did nothing but punch in the VIN and say NO,no recalls,no open TSB's, nothing wrong with your car, it's all been updated. I have been on two trips, over 400 combined miles and the car is running perfect and NO overheating, no codes set, no coolant loss, no problems at all! So I say to ALL Ford Escape owners with the 1.6 liter Turbo, if your year falls within the 2013,2014 or 2015 and experience any type of overheating issue, don't wait until you blow the head gasket and possibly set the car on fire(see Recall) spend the $800-$1000 and get it fixed! I'm pretty upset with Ford right now! I own a F250(company truck), my Ford Edge(daily driver), my wife's Ford Escape, I bought my daughter a Ford Edge also. I bought the Safety Recall kit 17S09 and installed it. IT IS FIXED!!! Ford gave me no help! I have talked with many people and no one really knows what to do to resolve this issue. And, on the same weekend the MFT died hard. Needless to say it's going back to the dealer. At that point I got off the turn pike and took back roads for last 30 miles. And on the trip back it did the same thing. I backed off the gas a little and the warning went away. Yesterday I took the same 100 trip and the coolant low warning came up again. The dealer came back and said a bubble had gotten into the system and caused the sensors to trip. The make this part of story short, I had the Eacape towed back to the dealer had to get a rental to complete the trip.īTW, I checked under the hood and there were no signs or smells of over heating and the temp gauge was right in the middle. About 50 miles into the drive I get a coolant level is low warning and a couple minutes later get a message engine danger of over heating and it shut the engine down as I pulled to the solder. Purchased it used.Ģ weeks after I purchase taking 100 mile trip which most of it was turnpike drive at 65-70 miles per hour. I have a 2013 Escape SEL AWD 1.6L ecoboost with ~21,000 miles.
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