Reliability & cost of ownership
Escape ESCAPE 5.0 Reliability & Common Problems
How reliable is the Escape ESCAPE 5.0? Compare every model year side by side — NHTSA recalls, owner complaints, and crash-test stars — then open the year you're shopping for its AI reliability outlook where NHTSA has enough data.
Escape ESCAPE 5.0 problems by model year
8 recall entries and 0 owner complaints on file across 7 model years, sourced from the federal NHTSA database.
| Year | Recalls | Complaints | NCAP stars | Full report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ESCAPE 5.0 | 1 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |
| 2024 ESCAPE 5.0 | 1 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |
| 2022 ESCAPE 5.0 | 1 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |
| 2021 ESCAPE 5.0 | 2 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |
| 2020 ESCAPE 5.0 | 1 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |
| 2019 ESCAPE 5.0 | 1 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |
| 2018 ESCAPE 5.0 | 1 | 0 | No NCAP test | Recalls & complaints → |