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CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2004 Ford Escape looks pretty good compared to other Ford Escape model years, but still has a trend of transmission problems, and engine problems from the NHTSA complaint data — so it's not a model year we can recommend.
8.0
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- $760
- Average Mileage:
- 183,000 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 2 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- replaced wheel bearings (2 reports)
wheels / hubs problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
So this is about the 5th wheel bearing replacement on our 04 Escape to date. I have posted on this problem before and again we have yet another wheel bearing failure, just like clockwork. It is also an expensive repair the way the Escape is designed, the service person I talked to said it's a press in bearing and is sometimes difficult to extract and get replaced. Great, again I question the design of this vehicle. As I have mentioned before I have owned older vehicles from the 1970s and 1980s with never a single bearing failure with well over 200,000 miles and they are usually easy to get to and service. Not to mention the older bearings I have seen are all roller type which to me make them last a lot longer. It appears that the newer vehicles have ball bearings. Why have engineers not used the proven ways from the past 100 years, why go and use a different design? Obviously it is not working as after 188,000 miles, we have replaced every single wheel bearing to date, and I believe now we have replaced at least one of them two times now. The first failures I recall were at around 50,000 miles. This is ridiculous!!! So, again I am forced with throwing money at this vehicle. I hope Ford has learned from its mistakes like this.
- C J., Howell, US