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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
1FMCU9H90DU••••••2013 Ford ESCAPE
That is about average for the 2013 Ford ESCAPE — 15 complaints per build across 174 builds.
19on this build
2580on the model
174builds in total
4involved a crash
3injuries
Most reportedEngine 8Steering 5Power Train 4Electrical System 3
What owners of this build wrote
Unknown Or OthercrashApr 2024
Unknown. Vehicle was coming to a stop and it "surged" forward. Brakes applied could not stop it. Caused accident, it hit the car in front which hit the next car in line. There were injuries. If this vehicle had surged in front of a pedestrian, there could have been a fatality.…
EnginecrashJul 2015
While my wife was pulling into a parking spot front forward. The engine suddenly revved and the vehicle accelerated forward, causing the vehicle to jump the curb and crash thru a store front window
Power TraincrashOct 2014
The contact owns a 2013 ford escape. The contact stated that the transmission was shifting abnormally in and out of gears and there was a sudden increase in engine rpms. The dealer was unable to duplicate the failure. During a second appointment, the technician determined that…
Vehicle Speed ControlcrashMay 2013
While stopped at a stoplight, with the car in drive and my foot on the brake the engine revs up and the car lurches forward and crashes into the car in front of me. This happened last week at a drive thru and I was fortunate that no one was in front of me
SteeringAug 2023
I was driving down the road an hour away from home with 3 other passengers, when the power steering stopped working. The car was extremely hard to handle and we almost wrecked 3 Times
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN 1FMCU9H90DUA86879 · decoded Oct 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.