for the Ford Techs..

[97RangerXLT]

Some background first....

This morning my wife was going to work and someone in a large pickup forced her into the curb while getting on the I 69 entrance ramp. maybe after getting large truck his penis was still small and he was preoccupied with finding it, I don't know.. but anyway the car hit the curb pretty good, hard enough to kill the engine. She was able to eventually restart it and drive it home to grab my Buick.

her car is a 2015 Escape, 2.5 duratech, base model. I did a fairly good look at it and drove it this morning after wards. it seems to be fine, no pulling, no shimmy or shake, steering wheel is properly centered. took it up to 80 for about 5 miles on the interstate. Hubcap has a nice divot out of it now, but the rim if it is bent or dented, it is very slight.

The thing that concerns me is the engine shutting off... I am assuming a fuel safety shutoff but it did restart after a few minutes, so do the newer Fords reset themselves? or is there a manual switch like the Ranger has? and if it reset itself, how does it know it isn't going to spray fuel all over a hot exhaust manifold?

AJ

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Make sure you have comprehensive insurance on it and don't let it warm up in the garage?!

You might check the manual, I know the manual reset systems have reset instructions in the manual.

If it has electric power steering it can mask an alignment issue so don't just go by how it drives

 

[97RangerXLT]

Well it does have minor alignment issues that Ford pointed out on the last oil change;;; will put the alignment on the front track now... Stil concerned on the engine shutoff thing. *note to check and make sure the insurance was paid this month...
AJ

 

[RonD]

I think 2012 was last Escape to use inertia switch, maybe the last Ford to use one
So your 2015 would use a Fuel Pump driver module and then use the SRS(seatbelt) module and/or traction control system to turn off the fuel pump power in an accident

So yes if the accident was not that bad then it would just reset itself, with key(button) off and then on, meaning there was a user/driver present.
Not sure what the parameters are for the reset, maybe no reset if airbags are deployed or ???

 

[Dirtman]

Did you try cursing at it?

 

[Roert42]

Did you try cursing at it?

Works every time, 60% of the time.

 

[RonD]

Did you try cursing at it?

I take it you have never seen the movie Christine(1983)

That pretty much stopped me from cursing at cars

 

[Dirtman]

I take it you have never seen the movie Christine(1983)

That pretty much stopped me from cursing at cars

That's only Chrysler's... it's perfectly safe to curse at Fords.

 

[Rick W]

Two thoughts:

Stil concerned on the engine shutoff thing.

You can drive it forever and it’ll work perfectly. When you give it back to your wife it’ll cut off again. And then she’ll cut you off. It’s some kind of mechanical emotional force of nature I think.

Back In my married days, when my wife’s car would make a noise or such, we’d swap cars until I figured it out. Well, she also fed the cat. & my garage is a separate building behind the house. & typically I got home after the wife.

Well, during one of these episodes I came home before the wife. When I got to the back door, the cat was sitting there all a glow and full of energy. When he saw me, he slumped down and slithered away. It’s a good thing I’ve got a strong ego and thick skin! Obviously he knew the sound of who’s car was who’s. Point is, feed the cat every now and then too, or they’ll both be mad at you. It’s clearly your fault....

 

[97RangerXLT]

You can drive it forever and it’ll work perfectly. When you give it back to your wife it’ll cut off again. And then she’ll cut you off. It’s some kind of mechanical emotional force of nature I think.

oh you aint kidding... true story... back in 2006 we were married a whole year. I had a 1994 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight (great car. a very nice light metalic blue. Wife had a 1994 Dodge Intrepid. both cars had similar miles on them, both were bought at around 58k on the clock. we get married, and right after wards my job goes to Mexico, and I go back to school. the wife's job (she is an accountant) went sideways so she found another accounting/ auditing company in Springfield IL. we had a house near Charleston IL, which was great because after I lost my job I went back to get my Bachelors degree in MIS (management Information systems, or computers for business) so this worked out to we got a cheap apartment in Springfield and I drove the 90 miles to the apartment each weekend, and went to school at EIU in Charleston on the weekdays. so she was in the big city alone during the week. well the Intrepid decided to have a random misfire which I chased for a few weeks and replaced the usual suspects of crank position sensor and cam position sensor and each time it still would random misfire on her. there were other minor issues that bothered her too. Then one day the misfire caused the car to die which scared her to death . so being the good husband that I was I swapped her cars. In the year and a half that I went to EIU (20 minute drive one way each day) that Intrepid drove fine. never misfired but for one time (which it did die from, but started back up) seriously no issues. I honestly think that it was because she babied the car and didn't really drive it hard... I drove that car like it was stolen and beat on it like it owed me money, just to get it to misbehave so I could sort it out...

so in the end I just kept the Intrepid until it was totalled out at almost 200k by a doofus in a round about in 2012. other than when she drove it, that car was rock solid. as I said I beat it to death. nearly sank it in a small stream, drove it back and forth from Indiana to Illinois every other weekend to get my son for visitation after I finished school and got out of that godforsaken hell hole of IL before it imploded.

AJ