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2013 2.0 escape se "engine fault"

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been having weird things happen while starting my escape, some days ill start it and itll come up Engine Fault and run extremely rough and misfire, if I shut it off and restart it, it works completely fine, the wire harness was already fixed with the recall, it has just over 100k KM on it and the issues been on an off for a year now, Ive taken it to dealerships before and they havnt been able to get it to act up, and if its happening during startup its impossible to drive anything over 40km with the whole engine and transmission jerking you out of your seat trying to shift
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I might be off the mark, but from your model year/mileage and everything I’ve read on this forum it sounds like an emissions system issue or something else making it misfire and/or run rough.

Is it worse right after you fill up your tank?

Have your original spark plugs been changed?

What’s the maintenance/repair history of the vehicle?

Are you the original owner?

Any mods done to the vehicle?

You made your first post about a problem but left out soooo much info it’s hard to diagnose.
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it happens not matter how full the tank is, nor when u fill it up, but when it did happen today I had just filled it

it does have the original plugs in it, which I did just order a set, at first it was only happening maybe once a week, now its every day or so

electrical wise its had the maf sensor and Canister Purge Valve replaced/ turbo was just replaced in it, oil changed every 20k km, fluids toped up every year

im the 2nd owner of it, had it 4 years now with no mods

and sorry, I tried linking a video of it acting up but well I couldnt post it

originally it would happen when I came to a complete stop, it would just gear itself down then kill it self, or try and die and pick itself back up before stalling with no engine fault light, that fixed itself when I replaced the Canister Purge Valve, everything seemed to work ok for a bit, now lately at low rpm while going down the road you can feel the hesitation and sometime the misfiring while watching the tac jump around from 2k down to 1k then jump back to 2.5k
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been having weird things happen while starting my escape, some days ill start it and itll come up Engine Fault and run extremely rough and misfire, if I shut it off and restart it, it works completely fine, the wire harness was already fixed with the recall, it has just over 100k KM on it and the issues been on an off for a year now, Ive taken it to dealerships before and they havnt been able to get it to act up, and if its happening during startup its impossible to drive anything over 40km with the whole engine and transmission jerking you out of your seat trying to shift
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Check the negative battery cable for corrosion and being loose.
I had a lot of weird electrical gremlins
they were all caused by the negative battery cable!!!
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