Ford Escape Problems
No car is perfect, but we've gathered everything relating to the Ford Escape reliability here to help you decide if it's a smart buy.
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Ford Escape 2001: Towing capability?
ONCE loaded, you will be travelling close to the Escape's limit of 1600kg, so you need to be careful. If you stay within Ford's recommendation I can't see a problem, but get the Escape serviced, including checks of the auto transmission, airconditioning and cooling.
Ford Escape 2003: Brake disk rotor replacement?
UNFORTUNATELY brake rotors do wear out much faster than they once did. There was a time when brake drums or rotors were never replaced, but the brakes back then weren't very efficient. If you revisit old road tests, you'll find them littered with criticisms of the brakes. The improvement is caused by a range of things -- pad material, fluid and disc design and construction are some of them. But one of the consequences appears to be greater wear of rotors. You seem to accept that tyres wear out, but you're not prepared to accept that discs will wear out, even though it's inevitable.
Ford Escape 2003: Excessive wind noise
Without driving your car it's impossible to provide an answer, particularly when noise is such a subjective thing. It's rare to find objectionable wind noise in a car today so I would suspect that something is wrong with yours. Perhaps you could drive another Escape -- perhaps take a demo for a test drive -- and compare it to yours.
