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Ford Escape Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Ford Escape Hybrid, model years 2005 to 2025. NHTSA has 1,739 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 15 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20050
  2. 20060
  3. 20070
  4. 20080
  5. 20090
  6. 20100
  7. 20110
  8. 20120
  9. 20130
  10. 20201
  11. 20211
  12. 20220
  13. 20230
  14. 20240
  15. 20250
Ford Escape Hybrid: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Ford Escape Hybrid NHTSA page011%
2024 Ford Escape Hybrid NHTSA page043%
2023 Ford Escape Hybrid NHTSA page02320%
2022 Ford Escape Hybrid06859%
2021 Ford Escape Hybrid1122105%155
2020 Ford Escape Hybrid1288248%87
2013 Ford Escape Hybrid NHTSA page054%
2012 Ford Escape Hybrid NHTSA page01513%
2011 Ford Escape Hybrid03732%
2010 Ford Escape Hybrid05951%
2009 Ford Escape Hybrid0153132%
2008 Ford Escape Hybrid0443382%
2007 Ford Escape Hybrid0124107%
2006 Ford Escape Hybrid0219189%
2005 Ford Escape Hybrid0178154%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

2,279 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Ford Escape Hybrid: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine151.4345
Service Brakes140.4320
Steering122278
Electrical System105.3240
Structure82.1187
Power Train69.8159
Unknown or Other59.2135
Vehicle Speed Control42.196
Service Brakes, Hydraulic41.795
Fuel/Propulsion System35.581

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Escape Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Ford Escape Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2024, with 187 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Escape Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/escape-hybrid/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
Ford Motor Company

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Ford Escape Hybrid model years have the most recall campaigns?
2021 with 1, 2020 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford Escape Hybrid model year has the most complaints?
The 2008 model year, with 443 of the 1,739 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Escape Hybrid name?
Engine: 151.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes: 140.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 122 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford Escape Hybrid?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.