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Yeah her escape when stopped at stop lights has a vibration that seems like the car still wants to go (doesn't pull or anything), put it in N and it goes away. Other than that it runs and drives great.
Drivetrain-wise our '01 was pretty good over its 165K miles and 17 years. In that time, I replaced a half shaft for a broken ABS tone ring, a stabilizer link, a couple of coils (you get to pull the intake for that on the V6), rear shocks... pretty normal stuff. The windows screeched when it was bitter cold, and the vinyl on the driver's door panel peeled, and the sunroof quit working in the last two years. The one big bad thing, though, was when the front subframe literally broke in two from rust. It was covered by the dealer 100% under a recall that I never knew about. Lots of new parts got installed then: Subframe, control arms, stabilizer links... even a drive shaft! A little body rust was also an issue, but I guess winters in NE Ohio will do that, too.
Drivetrain-wise our '01 was pretty good over its 165K miles and 17 years. In that time, I replaced a half shaft for a broken ABS tone ring, a stabilizer link, a couple of coils (you get to pull the intake for that on the V6), rear shocks... pretty normal stuff. The windows screeched when it was bitter cold, and the vinyl on the driver's door panel peeled, and the sunroof quit working in the last two years. The one big bad thing, though, was when the front subframe literally broke in two from rust. It was covered by the dealer 100% under a recall that I never knew about. Lots of new parts got installed then: Subframe, control arms, stabilizer links... even a drive shaft! A little body rust was also an issue, but I guess winters in NE Ohio will do that, too.
$8 tone ring replaced on driver side about 3yrs ago. New ac clutch this winter, new radio so we could run Bluetooth. Only rust (surprisingly for being in rust belt) is just now starting on the bottom of the running boards. Trying to convince her to just take them off, supposed she'll says yes when they start to look bad lol.
We've owned it for 6yrs and put 80,000+ miles on it. Those have been our only issues. 05 Escape V6
Don't get me started on my 03 truck lol. Think the list is shorter of things I haven't done, still love the truck but the rust is going to take it over soon. As long as its still driving it'll turn into my crappy winter weather truck.
This thing has 171 horsepower.... but it get's with it. It is a quick little unit. It only has 14 more horsepower than my 06, but the trans is geared WAY better. Kind of funny.... I was looking at different articles from the 2011's and found these two quotes about the Escape's. Needless to say, I CONCUR!
I noticed the air filter was a bit dirty when I test drove it.... so I took care of that this morning. All of my stash of oil filters and air filters for the 06 will work on this, so that makes me happy. Hope the fuel filters fit too.... hmmmm
This is what I found.... Ewwwwwww!
It's really clean under here....
One thing I noticed... there seems to be a lot more room to work on this thing. My 06 has the t-stat tucked under the intake so far that you have to remove the A/C compressor to change it. This looks easy enough to do from up top (circled). I also think I could do the water pump from up top (arrow). It looks far more accessible than my 06 is.
Nice Escape man, was looking at that a couple days back , good price! More reliable than that other little headache you've been dealing with I expect...TRans problems blow.
Nice Escape man, was looking at that a couple days back , good price! More reliable than that other little headache you've been dealing with I expect...TRans problems blow.
Yes they do suck.... Trying to decide if I buy a used or rebuilt trans on ebay, then keep it for my kids to drive..... or just call it quits. Either way, the Expy is gone. Don't know if I mentioned this on here yet, but my parents also gave me a 2001 Taurus. They said "keep it if you want it, or sell it". So, I'm not really a big fan of that car.... it has the AX4N trans in it, which is a giant POS. It'll get sold.
I could potentially have 7 cars sitting here shortly, lol.
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