14V284000
STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
If power steering assist is lost, greater driver effort would be required to steer the vehicle at low speeds, increasing the risk of a crash.
2009 FORD ESCAPE
1 safety recall campaign, 3 defect investigations, 2,348 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations3
Owner complaints2,348
Complaints citing a crash56
Complaints citing a fire2
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 817STEERING
- 279POWER TRAIN
- 277VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 254ENGINE
- 142ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 115FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 94SERVICE BRAKES
- 85FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2009 FORD ESCAPEs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.