This model year has 2,679 processed complaint reports; ENGINE is the most frequently classified system at 58.5% of reports.
Federal telemetry verified ● Model-year dossier
2017 FORD ESCAPE
Complaint-pattern analysis from publicly available NHTSA safety records.
1.0Reliability score / 10
System health index
Reliability telemetry
A normalized signal from documented incident volume and NHTSA crash or fire report flags.
Documented incidents2,679
Reports with crash / fire flags54
Flagged-report share2.02%
Primary reported systemENGINE
Crash and fire flags identify how a complaint was recorded by NHTSA. They do not establish that a reported component caused the event.
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Component analysis
Most frequently reported systems.
ENGINE1567 documented reports
58.5%ENGINE / ENGINE COOLING507 documented reports
18.9%POWER TRAIN390 documented reports
14.6%OTHER / UNSPECIFIED162 documented reports
6.0%ELECTRICAL SYSTEM155 documented reports
5.8%WHEELS76 documented reports
2.8%FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM72 documented reports
2.7%STRUCTURE62 documented reports
2.3%SERVICE BRAKES49 documented reports
1.8%STEERING48 documented reports
1.8%Show all 31 reported components
EXTERIOR LIGHTING37 documented reports
1.4%VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL31 documented reports
1.2%FUEL SYSTEM22 documented reports
0.8%AIR BAGS21 documented reports
0.8%GASOLINE21 documented reports
0.8%SEAT BELTS14 documented reports
0.5%VISIBILITY/WIPER11 documented reports
0.4%SUSPENSION8 documented reports
0.3%LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES8 documented reports
0.3%ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)7 documented reports
0.3%TIRES6 documented reports
0.2%EQUIPMENT5 documented reports
0.2%BACK OVER PREVENTION5 documented reports
0.2%VISIBILITY4 documented reports
0.1%HYDRAULIC4 documented reports
0.1%SEATS4 documented reports
0.1%LANE DEPARTURE3 documented reports
0.1%FIRE-RELATED2 documented reports
0.1%PARKING BRAKE1 documented reports
0.0%TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM1 documented reports
0.0%HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM1 documented reports
0.0%What the data says
ENGINE is the most frequently classified component, appearing in 58.5% of complaint reports in this dataset. This 2017 FORD ESCAPE has 2,679 complaint reports in the records we have processed. One report can be classified under more than one component, so component shares do not add up to 100%.
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