1999 Ford Escort fuel system problems
Owners reported fuel system problems in 15 complaints for the 1999 Ford Escort, 4% of the complaints on file.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 15 4% of this year's complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 2 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 2 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
What the data shows
These complaints mention 2 crashes, 2 injuries.
What owners wrote
While sitting at a stop and making a left turn another vehicle rear ended consumer'svehicle, in which consumer's vehicle was air bound about 50 feet, causing driver's seat and passenger's seat to go backwards. Also, switch for the gas unit system didn't shut down, and the motor kept running.
My daughter purchased a used 1999 ford escort from cooper ford, camden n.y., first 9 months with car okay but as soon as cold weather set in she started having fuel pump failures. This failure causes sudden shut down of vehicle, total loss of power. The first ocassion was winter of 2001-2002, problem re-occurred 12-27-02 and 1-28-03. Dealer insisted that the problem was fuel related that these fuel pumps were sensitive to additives in fuel.
Other problems reported for the 1999 Ford Escort
- Air bags 69 complaints
- Engine 63 complaints
- Electrical system 47 complaints
- Suspension 42 complaints
- Transmission 31 complaints
- Brakes 28 complaints
- Seat belts 18 complaints
- Steering 16 complaints