Other powertrain problem on the 2007 Ford Escape
2 crashes 1 fire 2 injuries 5 of the 34 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Ford Escape report other powertrain problem at a median of 77,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 117,500 miles, from 30 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 30,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 142,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 113,250 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
13% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29,850 miles | 55,016 miles | 76,403 miles | 117,426 miles | 143,100 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash, 1 a fire and 2 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 25,000 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 436; the 2007 has 34. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I was pulling out onto a main highway and my car jerked as I pressed on the accelerator and next thing I know I am in the middle of the highway and my car does not go forward, just stops and still running while two huge trucks are coming from both directions, thinking quickly, I thought the car may have reverse. Well, thank god it did and reverse I went. I had to drive home in reverse and call chapman ford to come and pick it up. My vehicle is still there and they have to take out the whole transmission. I am very shaken and am too scared to get back into the car. I have never felt like this before and have always bought a ford for safety reasons, but this has made me feel very, very unsafe. *tr
A piece in the shifter assembly is defective causing the key to get stuck in the ignition, and instead of ford replacing that one piece they suggest you replace the shifter assembly which is at least 400.00 vs maybe 50.00. *tr
When I was driving home, after stopping at a red light and starting to accelerate, my escape rumbled a bit, then was running fine. A few moments later, when I was about to go over train tracks, it suddenly stopped accelerating. Thankfully I was able to coast over the tracks safety and off to the side of the road, but other then the slight jerking a little earlier, there were no warning signs. I tried to see if reverse would work, and that did not either. Thankfully my vehicle was still under warranty-the entire transmission system had to be replaced. There was only about 21,500 miles on the vehicle! And I regularly get maintenance. I have been driving it for about 500 miles and everything seems okay (although my mpg seems to have gone down some). *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Ford Escape
Other speed control problem
Other brake problem
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Other fuel system problem
ABS module or sensor failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 34 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other powertrain problem happen on the 2007 Ford Escape?
Across 30 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 77,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 117,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2007 Ford Escape?
34 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 3.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed