Other engine problem on the 2014 Ford Escape
1 crash 52 fires 1 injury 54 of the 394 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 engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2014 Ford Escape report other engine problem at a median of 71,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 49,000 miles and a quarter after 94,000 miles, from 260 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 126,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 110,899 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
17% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15,201 miles | 48,565 miles | 71,000 miles | 94,250 miles | 126,100 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, 1 a crash, 52 a fire and 1 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 $300–$4,000 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 25 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2024, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 105,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 810; the 2014 has 394. 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.
When the vehicle is between 1400-1600 RPM it starts to vibrate and drives rough. Is this usual? Had it to two different dealerships and complained to ford. No satisfaction!! *tr
The car takes approximately 18-22 minutes to attain a safe and proper inside vehicle temperature. Even with a remote start installed it will usually two starts for the car to reach a temperature that is not dangerous to my infant nephew. I can no longer pick him up without warming car up for half an hour. I brought back to fullerton ford dealership in nj and was told by service manager [xxx] that he had the same problem with his escape. He was able to just get another car. The average person like myself is told to contact ford corporate and file a complaint. I asked if it was possible to get another ford escape or edge ad was told by sales manager [xxx] I would loose my initial down payment of 4000 dollars, they also said they would need another 4000 dollars and increased payments. Nothing I can do except leave car in driveway during winter and make payments. The service invoice clearly states "no fix available". Yet they continue to sell this vehicle to general public and dupe us. The dealerships that continue to sell this vehicle should be boycotted and held responsible. They have also lied about mpg on sticker. They claim it…
Leased this vehicle in august, 2013. Since day one I have noticed an exhaust smell in cabin when the vehicle is put into reverse and occasionally when driving at low speeds. I am sensitive to odors in general and my family members only smelled it occasionally, so I disregarded until recently the odors are becoming stronger inside the cabin and not clearing when windows are lowered to air out. I will bring this to the attention of my ford dealership when it goes in for maintenance service when it reaches 10,000 miles, but maybe sooner to have it looked at. *tr
Also reported on the 2014 Ford Escape
Other powertrain problem
Overheating
Radiator or coolant leak
Other body or interior problem
Other electrical problem
Complete transmission failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 394 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 engine problem happen on the 2014 Ford Escape?
Across 260 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 71,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 49,000 miles and a quarter after 94,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2014 Ford Escape?
394 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.4 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