Ford Escapes recalled!
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/busin...lash-financial

"Ford said some Escapes with a 3-liter, V-6 engine may experience an intermittent stall when decelerating at speeds below 40 mph"
Interesting feature to have!
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Yeah, i guess that's Ford's way of saving gas

 

Fixed
Or
Repaired
Daily

 

In this case, "Found On Road Dead' would seem to apply.

 

aha! the joys of being a carb guy, no computer to freak out on you, not that it happens often or anything :p

i've never been a fan of domestic vehicles(unless you count cars made before the 70s and trucks made before the 80s) but i'll be damned if the '78 f150 in the backyard won't start up within a couple tries after sitting for 6 months to haul a load of firewood or pull stumps whenever i need it to

 

Same here. My 1978 F250 gets driven maybe 200 miles a year (61,000 original miles). It starts up everytime!


That's a pretty scary recall!!

 

It seems that the 2.5L V6 in the contours had a similar problem stallin on deceleration, but it only made it to a service bulitin, My 97 2.5L spun a rod bearing around 30k miles, then the manual trans went 10k later, definatly ford quality. That was the last one I'll own.
Their old trucks are another story of course, the ol' 302 will keep kickin for a long time.

 

When I worked as a intern at a Lincoln/Mercury dealership, we would cringe when we saw a V6 Contour/Mistque. Those were a pain to work on because Ford left NO ROOM! There is a very good reason they don't make those anymore, they are junk!

 

So that your sunroof track can make so much noise that you feel like running into things.

 

F***in'
Owners are
Real
Dipsh*its

 

ford and yota are the only way to go

 

Hey that's the first car I ever owned......
......bought it when I was 15, taught me how to fix cars quick too!

I had it until I lent it to a friend and he tried to push down trees with it.

 

Geez! I thought Ford stood for:

˟˟˟˟˟˟ed
On a
Rainy
Day

 

The Escapes also come with nice aluminum oil pans. Driving on gravel roads, hit a bump and the oil pan connected with a rock. They don't bend, they shatter. We had a couple that ford gave us for a T.V. show i did and we handed them back a brand new Escape that needed a new engine. We were 700 km from the nearest dealer and had to have the dumb thing towed the whole way. Definitely not a very tough truck, I would be very carefull taking it out of it's intended environment( the mall parking lot).

 

Whoa crap... we got 2 at work just recently. I'll have to pass this down the line and see if they've heard of it.