Hi,
This is my first post here. I'm curious if anyone else's Escape had an engine fire? Our 2014 Escape caught fire on the highway almost a month ago and was a total loss. See attached picture. About two weeks after the fire we saw that Ford had released a recall that included our vehicle for risk of engine fire. Although we have not definitively heard the cause of our fire, we have heard from insurance that they are starting the subrogation process to seek reimbursement from Ford for what they paid us for the loss.
If anyone did have a car fire, I'm curious if there was any additional action/compensation by Ford or if you only received what insurance provided. We fairly quickly and painlessly received an amount that seems normal for the actual cash value/fair market value for our vehicle from insurance. But, unfortunately, with that value we were having a difficult time finding anything equivalent in the price range. Also, personal belongings in the car are not covered by car insurance. We'd have to open a home owners claim to have them covered which would be a $500 deductible and would impact our annual home owners insurance rate. Therefore we decided not to open a claim for the personal belongings in the car, but replacing those items is even more money and inconvenience this situation is costing us
To make the situation worse, we traveled a couple of hours to a Ford dealership that had two certified preowned Escapes we were interested in as replacements. The prices were over what we received back but reasonably priced based on LOTS of research. They were both great shape, ran well on a long test drive, and priced well for the year/mileage. We made our decision on which to buy and made the purchase (a 2015 with 2.0L engine). As we were pulling out of the dealership parking lot the Escape we just purchased stalled twice. My husband turned the vehicle around to get it back into the lot and it stalled again and started having some light smoking... We cancelled the sale and were back to square one. Despite my husband loving his original Escape we have decided we should take that as a sign that we should look into another type of vehicle
We were not planning on replacing his Escape anytime soon - we usually keep our cars a long time (I just replaced my 1999 with well over 200k miles last year). We were going to have the Escape paid for in a few months. But now, after finally making a replacement purchase, we are spending thousands of dollars over what insurance covered and have to pay to replace personal belongings out of pocket. It may not be the case, but it seems like Ford should take a little more responsibility to cover financial burden if this was due to their defect.
Thanks for any input/thoughts any of you may have and sorry for the whining! The most important thing is that no one was hurt in the fire. And I'm thankful that at least we have the coverage that we do. But it has been a frustrating and expensive process to say the least.
This is my first post here. I'm curious if anyone else's Escape had an engine fire? Our 2014 Escape caught fire on the highway almost a month ago and was a total loss. See attached picture. About two weeks after the fire we saw that Ford had released a recall that included our vehicle for risk of engine fire. Although we have not definitively heard the cause of our fire, we have heard from insurance that they are starting the subrogation process to seek reimbursement from Ford for what they paid us for the loss.
If anyone did have a car fire, I'm curious if there was any additional action/compensation by Ford or if you only received what insurance provided. We fairly quickly and painlessly received an amount that seems normal for the actual cash value/fair market value for our vehicle from insurance. But, unfortunately, with that value we were having a difficult time finding anything equivalent in the price range. Also, personal belongings in the car are not covered by car insurance. We'd have to open a home owners claim to have them covered which would be a $500 deductible and would impact our annual home owners insurance rate. Therefore we decided not to open a claim for the personal belongings in the car, but replacing those items is even more money and inconvenience this situation is costing us
To make the situation worse, we traveled a couple of hours to a Ford dealership that had two certified preowned Escapes we were interested in as replacements. The prices were over what we received back but reasonably priced based on LOTS of research. They were both great shape, ran well on a long test drive, and priced well for the year/mileage. We made our decision on which to buy and made the purchase (a 2015 with 2.0L engine). As we were pulling out of the dealership parking lot the Escape we just purchased stalled twice. My husband turned the vehicle around to get it back into the lot and it stalled again and started having some light smoking... We cancelled the sale and were back to square one. Despite my husband loving his original Escape we have decided we should take that as a sign that we should look into another type of vehicle
We were not planning on replacing his Escape anytime soon - we usually keep our cars a long time (I just replaced my 1999 with well over 200k miles last year). We were going to have the Escape paid for in a few months. But now, after finally making a replacement purchase, we are spending thousands of dollars over what insurance covered and have to pay to replace personal belongings out of pocket. It may not be the case, but it seems like Ford should take a little more responsibility to cover financial burden if this was due to their defect.
Thanks for any input/thoughts any of you may have and sorry for the whining! The most important thing is that no one was hurt in the fire. And I'm thankful that at least we have the coverage that we do. But it has been a frustrating and expensive process to say the least.
