2017 Ford Escape Exterior lighting Problems

“Tonight, 11/16/2020, my Escape started to idle roughly. The tachometer would go up and down by at least 500 RPM without any input from me. The lights would flicker. The dashcam I have mounted turned off. I tried making it home and it just died. Lost all lights. I shifted to neutral and coasted to the left turn lane. While doing this, the auto start system tried to restart the car, even though it had been previously disabled. I tried to start the car manually, about five or six times. It finally started and I was able to make it home. …”

“My wife and I purchased a 2017 Ford Escape, brand new, 6 months ago. We noticed that the brake light plastic cover was fogging over making it hard to see the brake light. After checking with our dealer, mac haik Ford, georgetown, texas, I was informed that this is normal. Normal? Sounds more like a safety concern to me. I was also told that water leaking into the brake light unit was also ?normal.? I can?t imagine allowing water to collect inside an electrical item as important as a brake light and is very strange and very wrong! …”

“Daylight running lights do not include tail lights. Cars driven at dusk, dawn, or weather conditions when headlights provide added safety are driven with only daylight headlight and no tail lights. Many times cars appear to be diving with no headlights, or lights, only to see they are driving with daylight running lights. Please engage all lights, headlights and tail lights at all times for added safety. Too many times vehicles are driven with what appears to be no tail lights. Daylight running lights with only headlights are dangerous.”

“The KNOWN issue with the 1.5L ecoboost engines happened to my 2017 Escape at 79k miles right after having a the transmission shifter cable bushing recall fixed. Coincidentally, it didn't have the extensive issue before bringing it in for the recall and also ,coincidentally, my warranty expired last month and they told me it's my problem.”

“All 4 tail lights are filled with water, therefore they stopped working due to corrosion. I had to replace all 4 or I couldn't get my car to pass inspection. No warnings or anything telling me my brake lights have failed. This is a huge problem in the 2017 Ford Escape SE!”