Federal complaint record · Ford Escape · model year 2019

2019 Ford Escape

Owners submitted 563 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 69th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2017 to 2021 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 53% · group n = 382Powertrain · 17% · group n = 120Other · 5% · group n = 38Electrical · 5% · group n = 37Fuel system · 4% · group n = 25
563
Complaint records on file
64,460
Median mileage at the reported problem · 224 complaints reported mileage
53%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 382
69th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 5 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine53%

Engine reports

Ford Escape · model year 2019

Reports in this group382
Share of classified reports53%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2018
0.8complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,739 matched incidents
This car
2019
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
563 matched incidents
2020
1.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,554 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Fire or smoke · 137 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 1 of 32019 Ford Escape
Warning indicators · 73 reports

Reports describe warning lights before service

Cluster 2 of 32019 Ford Escape
Transmission behavior · 65 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 32019 Ford Escape

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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