NHTSA Complaint #10863433 — 2009 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID

TODAY MY WRENCH INDICATOR CAME ON AND THEN ROUGHLY 8-10 MINUTES LATER MY VEHICLE SUDDENLY LOST SPEED WHILE TRAVELLING AT ROUGHLY 55-60 MPH IN THE FAST LANE, IT DROPPED DOWN TO ~40 MHP NO MATTER HOW MUCH I PRESSED THE GAS. I HAD TO CAUTIOUSLY GET OVER INTO THE SLOW LANE AND LUCKILY MY EXIT WAS CLOSE. AFTER THE EXIT THERE WAS A RED LIGHT WHERE I STOPPED AND RESTARTED, THEN IT SEEMED FINE. THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT WITH THE ACCELERATOR MALFUNCTIONING, IN THE PAST YEAR OR MORE I HAVE HAD 5-6 INSTANCES WHERE I START MY CAR FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AND WHILE IN PARK OR REVERSE THE ENGINE REVS REALLY HIGH LIKE IT'S STUCK, AT 2K-2.5K RPMS. IT EITHER STOPS DOING THAT ON ITS OWN OR I RESTART THE CAR AND IT STOPS AND SEEMS FINE. IN THE PAST YEAR I HAVE HAD 4-5 INSTANCES WHERE I WAS DRIVING AT LOW SPEED SOON AFTER STARTING MY CAR IN THE MORNING AND IT WOULD NOT ACCELERATE PROPERLY FOR SEVERAL SECONDS, THEN FINALLY IT WOULD. I HAD ONE INSTANCE PERHAPS 3 MONTHS AGO WHERE I WAS DRIVING ON CITY STREETS AT 25-30 MPH WHEN IT WENT INTO "LIMP" MODE AND WOULD ONLY TRAVEL AT PERHAPS 15 MPH NO MATTER HOW MUCH I ACCELERATED, I PULLED OVER AND RESTARTED THE CAR AND IT SEEMED FINE AFTER THAT. THIS SEEMS TO BE AN OBVIOUS PRODUCT DEFECT SIMILAR OR THE SAME AS THE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION PROGRAM 13N03 THAT I HAVE BEEN READING ABOUT. I CALLED FORD AND THEY TOLD ME THAT MY CAR WAS NOT PART OF THE CSP, AS HYBRID MODELS WERE NOT INCLUDED, WHICH MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE SINCE I AM HAVING PRECISELY THE SAME PROBLEMS THAT WERE THE SUBJECT OF THE CSP AND PRESUMABLY THE EXACT SAME THROTTLE BODY PARTS WERE USED ON MY CAR AS NON-HYBRID MODELS.