2017 Ford Escape consumer reviews

This was the best SUV until the check engine light came on. I purchased the 2017 in 2020 with 19k miles. Since owning it I have loved it, smooth ride, great on gas, plenty of room for hauling dogs and produce. It's currently at 68k miles in 2025 and it needs a new small engine block. Apparently there is a KNOWN issue without a recall on the 1.5 L engines where the coolant leeks into the cylinders( 3rd cylinder for mine) causing the sparkplug to misfire. I am still paying for this car and have talked to Ford numerous times about this as well as trying to join the class action lawsuit, but sadly my state doesn't participate in that lawsuit. I honestly loved this car, but without the financial means to cover the engine rebuild and not having a guarantee it wont have the same issues, we have decided to trade it in.

Numeros mechanical problems early on fortunately I did purchase an extended warranty on a new vehicle that kept me covered but it just recently ran out and I'm faced with major repairs on a low mileage 7year old vehicle one owner. I would say buyer beware.

Numeros mechanical problems early on fortunately I did purchase an extended warranty on a new vehicle that kept me covered but it just recently ran out and I'm faced with major repairs on a low mileage 7year old vehicle one owner. I would say buyer beware.

Bad luck with the one I have only for 3years and a piston has be replaced the place I took to said they would have tear down all most the whole engine to get to it.

We bought ours used. At 70,000 miles, it suffered from "catastrophic engine failure" on the highway out of nowhere. It broke down while going up a hill and had to pay $300 to get it towed. Had to pay $8,500 to get it fixed, and Ford had the car for 2 months (which is hard when you have a job). Then when I got the car back, it turns out they reinstalled a panel improperly and we had to take it back to Ford the same day. Also when we got the car back, a small crack in the front windshield became 3x bigger after we got the car back and had to pay $500 to fix it because Ford said it "probably cracked in the wash". 2 weeks later, the engine lags when starting and makes whirring sounds. Take it in AGAIN and they say we might have to replace the entire transmission, which will cost thousands more dollars. Get another opinion and they say to bring it in every 2 weeks to check on it. And got the slow start and whirring sound fixed for more money. All of this happened at 70,000 miles in 4 months. There was also a class action lawsuit forming in 2020 because they had crappy Ecoboosts and didn't recall or fix anything really. If this happened to someone without $10,000 in savings for car emergencies, then this could financially break someone, if you can't sell it and still have payments. Extremely disappointed that Ford let us down so much and don't stand behind their product.

I see many people are having a problem with the coolant intrusion to the cylinder bones and a new engine is the only way to fix it. I just got shock but this issue in my ford scape titanium with just 40000 miles. The Ford company don’t take any responsibility even there is many cases with this problem- So the product is bad and the cost of a new engine is almost $9000. I advice not to buy any car or buy extra warranty because this product has a manufacturing problem!!! I research and all this vehicles should be taken away- there fire threatening ‼️

Transmission went out after a year. Less than a year later, coolant leaked into engine and now is going to cost 8,000 to fix. Not worth it

Interior is pretty nice. have the cold weather package so heated leather/cloth seats. Good mileage. a good traveling car. AWD has been very reliable, esp in snow. Had to replace the engine at 80k due to the other reasons. commenting this in dec 2023. The small town dealer we went to said that this would be their 7th engine replacement this year for the escape. Thankfully got the extended warranty for it and it was covered.

I bought this 2017 Ford escape in January this year with only 62, 000 miles on it for way over the price it's worth, and the transmission went out already last month and they would not do anything to help me out, I had to pay 5 grand for a new transmission for it after only owning for 10 months

got a Ford Escape base model in 2017, less than a year later the paint on the roof and front mirror frame started to peel off. of course Ford didn't want to pay for it! it's comfortable for commuting. One recall so far . Not pleased with this but so far no major problems.