2016 Ford Escape FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM

VEHICLE WAS IN MOTION GOING SPEED LIMIT WHEN IT STARTED TO SHUT DOWN. IT BECAME MORE FREQUENT AND LASTED LONGER TO START AND TO STAY RUNNING. WHEN SHUT DOWN FOR 10 MINUTES IT WOULD TRAVEL ABOUT 20 MILES BEFORE HAVING ISSUES ONCE AGAIN. FOUND OUT WHEN THE FUEL HAS UNDER A HALF A TANK THE PROBLEM BECOMES MORE FREQUENT.

VEHICLE WAS IN MOTION GOING SPEED LIMIT WHEN IT STARTED TO SHUT DOWN. IT BECAME MORE FREQUENT AND LASTED LONGER TO START AND TO STAY RUNNING. WHEN SHUT DOWN FOR 10 MINUTES IT WOULD TRAVEL ABOUT 20 MILES BEFORE HAVING ISSUES ONCE AGAIN. FOUND OUT WHEN THE FUEL HAS UNDER A HALF A TANK THE PROBLEM BECOMES MORE FREQUENT. THIS TIME THE FUEL TANK WAS FULL BUT IT STARTED ACTING UP.

WHILE TAKING OFF FROM 0 - 20 MPH VEHICLES HESITATES WHILE ACCELERATING CAUSING VEHICLE TO ALMOST STALL IN TRAFFIC. HAVE TO PUMP GAS PEDAL REPEATEDLY TO TRY TO GET CAR MOVING. REPORTED TO DEALERSHIP FOUR TIMES WITH NO REPAIR GIVEN FOR THE PROBLEM OF CAR STALLING WHILE TAKING OFF. HAS DONE THIS SINCE PURCHASED IN 2016 AND CONTINUES UNTIL TODAY. BROUGHT IN FOUR TIMES TO DEALERSHIP CAZENAVE'S MOTOR CO.BUT VEHICLE CONTINUES TO STALL. CONCERNED OF BEING HIT WHILE STALLED IN FAST MOVING TRAFFIC OR WHILE APPROACHING ENTRANCES AND EXITS OR WHILE MAKING TURNS. CONCERNED OF BAD ACCIDENT DUE TO VEHICLE STALLING IN TRAFFIC.

AS I WAS DRIVING ON THE FWY MI CAR STOPPED ACCELERATING I PULLED OVER AND MY CAR TURNED OFF. I HAD A QUARTER TANK OF GAS LEFT ONCE I TRIED TO TURN IT ON IT WOULD NOT LET ME. I HAD TO CALL A TOW. I NOW HAD A CHECK ENGINE SIGN ON. I TOOK IT TO AUTOZONE AND THEY SAID I NEEDED A NEW PURGE CANISTER VALVE. BUT THAT DOESNT EXPLAIN WHY IT DID NOT WARN ME ON THE FWY THAT I NEEDED GAS .

CAR STALLS WHILE DRIVING. IS VERY DIFFICULT TO START BACK UP.

HESITATES ON QUICK EXECRATION. MOVING AT ANY SPEED AS FAR AS I CAN TELL. HAPPENS WERE EVER I "HIT THE GAS". BAD WHEN I NEED TO GET OUT OF THE WAY!

AFTER FUELING CAR STALLS AND DIES.

ON THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016 MY WIFE WAS RETURNING HOME WITH A CARLOAD OF KIDS. THEY WERE ON THE HIGHWAY AND THE CRUISE CONTROL WAS SET WHEN THE CAR SLOWWED RAPIDLY AND THE ENGINE DIED. SHE WAS ABLE TO RESTART THE CAR AND GET TO THE CURB AFTER TRAFFIC PASSED. SEVERAL MINUTES LATER THE CASE WAS RESTARTED AND WAS DRIVEN TO THE DEALER A MILE AWAY BY MISSED BADLY ASK THE WAY THERE. THE DEALER MECHANIC WAS ALSO STRANDED IN THE VEHICLE THE NEXT DAY AND IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE THROTTLE BODY HAD GONE BAD. FORTUNATELY IT WAS LATE WHEN OUR INCIDENT OCCURRED; DURING RUSH HOUR THIS COULD HAVE CAUSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

TRANSMISSION SLIPS WHEN BACKING UP. PROBLEM IS PERIODIC BUT IS BAD ENOUGH THAT THE CAR WOULD BE SLOW TO REACT TO EMERGENCIES SUCH AS BACKING FROM INTERSECTION WHEN IT OCCURS. PROBLEM OCCURS WHEN CAR IS WARMED UP AND MOST OFTEN WHEN GOING FROM FORWARD TO STOP TO BACKING. WHILE PARKING THIS PROBLEM CAUSES THE CAR TO STALL AND THEN LURCH BACKWARDS.