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#3798 of 4133 Ford Escape 2005 transmission GONE at 65K miles by timo888

Jul 20, 2009 (1:06 pm)

Yesterday, with ~65K on the odometer, the transmission on my 2005 Ford Escape blew up. The dealer says there's lots of broken pieces of metal in the pan and they're recommending a complete replacement.
 
Very little to complain about with the Ford Escape. I bought it new and liked it very much from day one. I was just thinking recently how nicely it was riding.
 
 I had all services performed by the dealer, changed the oil every 3000 miles, and drove the car in a civilized manner. I liked the car so much I planned on keeping it and bought the premium extended warranty (72 months/60K miles).
 
Unless the dealer gives me some sort of break because it blew up so close to the end of the extended warranty period, it's going to cost $3600 for parts and labor.
 
I've been reading on the internet about this same thing happening to other Escape owners at approximately the same (fairly low) mileage. Is there a central place where such reports are being gathered? Or is this forum "it"?

#3799 of 4133 Re: 2005 Ford Escape dies... [mickmoss] by ford2honda

Aug 05, 2009 (11:30 am)

Replying to: mickmoss (Jan 31, 2008 9:31 am)
mickmoss,
 
I hate to tell you this but my '01 Escape with a 3.0 was having the same exact issues, no power, bad idle wouldn't go uphill hardly at all. I changed cylinders 5 and 6 injectors (as the computer said) changed O2 sensors changed IAC changed plugs and wires. Which It may have needed all of that, but, it turned out to be the catalytic converters. Notice the plural on converters. Ford was really using their head with this one. There are 2 pre-catalytic converters and 1 standard catalytic converter. I replaced the standard one and the muffler while I was at it. Problem still existed, so I disconnected the exhaust from the manifold for testing and it the car ran fine.
 
So now I try to get to the other two pre-cats. Guess what! you have to buy the entire assembly which includes parts from the exhaust manifold. The cheapest I could find it was $500 (the Ford garage wanted $1,000) So I'm going to sell the thing and let someone else worry about it. I've already dumped $1,000 in the thing and it's only worth about $2,500 anyways.
 
Sorry.

#3801 of 4133 Re: No cruise and ABS, airbag, and Brake light on [peter0688] by grandnash2

Aug 06, 2009 (7:02 pm)

Replying to: peter0688 (Jul 08, 2009 2:53 am)
i had the same problem it was two fold the wires under the passenger side seat got pinched in the track and shorted out the number 5 fuse in the inside fuse panel. i seperated the 4 wires taped them with electrical tape and replaced the number 5 fuse, it worked perfect.

#3802 of 4133 No Parking Lights by sylviah

Aug 09, 2009 (2:59 pm)

I have a 2005 Ford Escape - it got broken into last week! I got it fixed and now had a alarm installed on it. Now the Parking Lights don't work - the shop that installed the Alarm said they can not find the problem - all the fuses are good. Blinkers work - just no Parking Lights. Any idea's - just spend a lot of money and I really don't have to much left The breakin was the Passenger door window was broken and the door dinged. Nothing else - you guys helped me out before so I hope you can do it again!!! Thank's a lot - Sylvia

#3803 of 4133 Re: No Parking Lights [sylviah] by tidester

Aug 09, 2009 (5:35 pm)

Replying to: sylviah (Aug 09, 2009 2:59 pm)
Did the parking lights work before the alarm was installed?
 
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#3804 of 4133 Re: No Parking Lights [tidester] by sylviah

Aug 09, 2009 (7:00 pm)

Replying to: tidester (Aug 09, 2009 5:35 pm)
Well that's the thing - I thought that they did but it has been sometime that I had driven at night so I am not sure. The Alarm place tells me that they did not work when they did the equipment check. What do you think that it could be?

#3805 of 4133 Re: No Parking Lights [sylviah] by tidester

Aug 09, 2009 (9:48 pm)

Replying to: sylviah (Aug 09, 2009 7:00 pm)
If the fuses check out then the next things I'd look for are (a) burnt out bulbs, (b) problems with the switch or (c) wiring issues.
 
It's not likely that both bulbs would be burnt out at the same time but it's still worth checking. My money would be on the switch as the root problem. Wiring issues would be the hardest to trace.
 
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#3806 of 4133 Terrible gas mileage by walstone

Aug 13, 2009 (2:58 pm)

I just purchased a beautiful (skin deep?) 2003 Tribute ES. A is usually the case after a purchase I have found the tranny noise to be high but the worst thing is the intolerable 13MPG city and 15 MPG combined. It's got 60k mi and my mechanic says everything looks good as far as fluids, filters, etc. The mech mentioned perhaps a bad ECT sensor or other HO2 dowstream sensors. Would that affect mileage that much?
'03 Tribute almost for sale!

#3807 of 4133 Re: Terrible gas mileage [walstone] by nitrous93

Aug 13, 2009 (4:22 pm)

Replying to: walstone (Aug 13, 2009 2:58 pm)
Walstone,
               First of all make sure you are running synthetic blend 5W-20, ford motorcraft is what I always used, but any brand of same viscosity will be fine. I have an 02 escape and changed oil in mine to a 10W-30 and got very bad gas mileage. Changed back to 5W-20 and is fine now.Read your owners manual on this, it says it in there, I promise. Also I dont care what any mechanic tells you, change the Plugs now, dont wait to 100,000 miles. and while your there your PCV Valve as well. Hopes this helps.

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