NHTSA Complaint #11395532 — 2019 FORD ESCAPE

BOUGHT USED ESCAPE IN APRIL. DIDN'T DRIVE MUCH SINCE I LIVE IN TOWN. TOOK A HOUR DRIVE FROM HOME.ENGINE STARTED MISFIRING AND CAR WAS JERKING. TOOK TO DEALERSHIP. THEY HAD FOR TWO WEEKS. SAID WAS SOLENOID IN TRANSMISSION AND REPLACED IT. PICKED UP, TOOK HOME. DROVE 3 DAYS LATER, STARTED DOING SAME THING. DROVE NEXT DAY AND CAR QUITE RUNNING 1 BLOCK FROM HOUSE. TRIED TO START BUT STARTED MISSING AND QUIT. HAD CAR TOWED TO DEALERSHIP. THEY HAD FOR 2 WEEKS. SAID CAM SHAFT AND CRANK SHAFT SENSOR WERE BAD AND REPLACED THEM. THEY TEST DROVE OVER 400 MILES WITH NO PROBLEMS. PICKED UP AND DROVE LESS THEN 5 MILE AND STARTED MISFIRING AGAIN. TOOK BACK TO DEALERSHIP. THEY SAID IT WAS ALTERNATOR.THEY REPLACED AND IT TOOK THREE WEEKS TO GET BACK. A COUPLE OF DAY LATER I DROVE 2 MILES TO GAS STATION, FILLED UP AND GOT ON INTERSTATE. BY FIRST EXIT(2-3 MILES) IT STARTED MISSING AGAIN. DROVE TO SECOND EXIT TO GET OFF INTERSTATE SINCE I DIDN'T TRUST. TOP SPEED ON INTERSTATE WAS 45 MPH. OIL LIGHT STARTED FLASHING AS IF CAR WAS STALLING. TOOK BACK TO DEALERSHIP. THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG. THEY HAVE HAD FOR GOING ON 4 WEEKS WITH NO WORD ON WHAT THEY FOUND. CAR HAD 27,939 MILES WHEN WE BOUGHT KNOW HAS 30,030 MILES. HAD SINCE APRIL OF 2020 AND WAS BEEN IN SHOP 11 WEEK.