2001 Ford Escort problems
NHTSA has received 85 complaints about the 2001 Ford Escort, and 14% of them involve engine. After that come transmission (13%) and air bags (12%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 85 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 14% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 17 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 7 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 40,000 miles 44 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 4 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 17 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 9 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 7 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 1 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 3 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 0 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Among the 44 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 40,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 17 complaints mention a crash; 4 complaints mention a fire; 7 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 88% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2001 ranks 11th most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Ford Escort with enough data (57 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
While at a stop sign proceeded to go and vehicle hesitated. Then, when pressing gas pedal, vehicle accelerated very slowly, and was rear ended by another vehicle. Currently, vehicle at dealer's being serviced. Please provide any further infomation. Dealer stated all these model vehicles perform this way, possible design flaw. Nlm
Consumer stopped at a red light when another vehicle rearended consumer's vehicle and pushed her into vehicle in front. Neither airbag deployed. Consumer hit her head on steering wheel. Vehicle was totalled, other vehicles affected by this accident had deployed airbags.
While driving 40 MPH steering failed, vehicle hit guardrail. Consumer is awaiting for ford inspector to inspect vehicle, however no response from home office as of yet, consumer states possible problem with rack and pinion, one person was injured in the accident.
I was involved in a very minor accident with only paint damage to my front bumper. The other vehicle also had only paint damage. I was stopped and the other vehicle scraped mine at a speed of maybe 25 MPH. My airbags depoyed and caused more damage than the accident itself.
Consumer complained about a stalling problem. When applying the brakes at a stop sign or red light vehicle shimmied, and then stalled. When trying to accelerate vehicle shook.