2010 Ford Escape electrical system problems

216 complaints about electrical system have been filed for the 2010 Ford Escape, which is 7% of all its NHTSA complaints.

Complaints: 216 7% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage: 58,000 miles 192 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires: 2 and 0
Injuries and deaths: 3 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When electrical system problems show up

Based on 192 complaints that include mileage. 54% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.

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Mileage	Complaints
0k to 20k miles	14
20k to 40k miles	26
40k to 60k miles	64
60k to 80k miles	37
80k to 100k miles	23
100k to 120k miles	8
120k to 140k miles	9
140k to 160k miles	5
160k to 180k miles	2
180k to 200k miles	2
200k+ miles	2

What the data shows

Of the 192 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 58,000 miles, and 54% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 3 injuries.

What owners wrote

Takata recall / ford defective product low mileage escape involved in a frontal crash and rear ended another vehicle (2005 accura) and the air bag system failed to deploy. $13,000 escape was totaled. This is unacceptable.

Reported at 88,000 miles, August 2016 CrashInjury

While driving my vehicle lost acceleration and then began to shake the wrench and engine lights came on. Recently went to a shop and the issue is because of a part called throttle body.

Reported at 64,652 miles, July 2013

Electrical system problems in other years

Electrical system problems across all Ford models