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CarComplaints.com Notes: The top problem trend for the 2014 Escape is transmission failure at around 70k miles.

This is relatively low mileage for an expensive transmission failure ($4,500 average to fix), but unless the trend becomes more established, we are only awarding the 2014 Escape our "Beware of the Clunker" badge for now.

4.2

definitely annoying
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
28,000 miles

About These NHTSA Complaints:

This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.

So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.

2014 Ford Escape windows / windshield problems

windows / windshield problem

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2014 Ford Escape Owner Comments

problem #2

Jan 032017

Escape

  • 43,000 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

I was driving on a city street, going straight, no other cars near me, when my rear gate window spontaneously shattered. Nothing hit it or the car. I didn't hit anything. Just bang, and it was broken. Initially it was all still in place but by the time I arrived home, pieces had begun to fall off. It was very cold outside, about 15 degrees, but no wind or precipitation was falling. I was going about 20 mph.

- Kearney, NE, USA

problem #1

Dec 082014

Escape

  • 13,000 miles
While driving at approximately 25 mph with temperatures in the high 20's I heard a loud pop similar to a gun shot and then looked back and my rear window just started to spider. I was only in the vehicle for about 10 minutes. I pulled over and there were no impact marks and the glass on each side of the window had fallen off but the rest of the glass was in tact. There were vertical stress fractures on each far side of the glass and spidering on the rest of the glass toward the middle. Ford let me know that this had been happening to F150's recently but not in new Escapes and they refused to pay for it. They advised that something must of impacted the window but would not provide any further clarification. I have pictures of the glass also and submitted them to Ford's corporation and also the dealership, moon township Ford. They still would not pay. It seems this has been a continuing pattern for Ford Escapes throughout the past decade.

- Aliquippa, PA, USA

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