2006 Ford Escape Transmission and drivetrain Problems

“My transmission went at 60k I bought it at 44k no one send me a service note that it had to be serviced at 50k the Ford company found a transmission with 70k & was going to charge me 1900 a independant found the same one & charge me 1000 how sick is this & they wonder y people do not go back to the Ford co. & I will not.”

“Had a winter spell that brought about 6 inches of snow. When I left for work I got stuck at a stop sign and found myself unable to go forward or backwards. I therefore employed standard winter driving tactics slowly changing back and forth from reverse to drive in a rocking motion to get the vehicle unstuck. After freeing the vehicle I then proceeded to drive towards my work but the vehicle wouldn't stay in gear. Now the vehicle won't go into a moving gear except for every once in a while and only for a few seconds before it slips back out of gear and won't move. …”

“Driving down the freeway and my vehicle shuts off without warning. There is a loud knocking and shuttering noise like my whole engine is going to drop onto the freeway. I get to the shoulder and put it in park. As I try to start the vehicle again the engine/motor starts shaking yet again with a loud knocking noise and wont turn over. I had to get my car towed. My children were extremely scared and being on the freeway this issue is very dangerous and has been complained about multiple times.”

“The transmission in my 2006 Ford Escape went out on me while I was driving. Upon on having a mechanic tear it apart, it was found that a bearing and the clutch went out in it. The same mechanic, before working on my transmission, did research and found that many other Escape owners had the same problem and that Ford has not issued a recall know wing that there is a problem. The mechanic found that there should be a shift kit that was not there. I also learned that no Ford trained technicians would work on my Escape.”

“I was driving on a residential street, doing 25 MPH, when it felt like the transmission failed. I had it towed to aamco in renton washington where the transmission was replaced at a cost of $4270.50. It was the original transmission. On 2-10-2014. The transmission failed again and had to be replaced at the cost of $468.11. I have owned many cars over the years and most had well over 100k miles on them and I have never had a transmission fail, much less two transmissions fail. This seems very unusual to me.”