2001 Escape Reliability
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From: Moscow PA
2001 Escape Reliability
Are there any chronic problems with the 2001 Escapes? Daughter is looking at one and I am doubtful about buying the first model year of any vehicle. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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From: Vestal, NY
2001 Escape Reliability
Ditto about the wiper.
Another gripe I have about our 2002 is that the "step bars" are not in a practical location for me. Too high to really use, and out far enough that I must really step over them. They catch a lot of road crud in the winter, and like to leave dirt smudge on the back of my pants leg.
I must say that winter performance traction wise has been exceptional. I used the 4 X 4 lock only twice, and that was only to see the difference in traction on ice, and in snow 17 inches deep.
Small difference really, but noticable.
Anti-lock brakes are noisy, but very effective.
Another gripe I have about our 2002 is that the "step bars" are not in a practical location for me. Too high to really use, and out far enough that I must really step over them. They catch a lot of road crud in the winter, and like to leave dirt smudge on the back of my pants leg.
I must say that winter performance traction wise has been exceptional. I used the 4 X 4 lock only twice, and that was only to see the difference in traction on ice, and in snow 17 inches deep.
Small difference really, but noticable.
Anti-lock brakes are noisy, but very effective.
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2001 Escape Reliability
I have the 2001 and have had it since Sept of 2001. I haven't had one problem yet.....other than I get bored and put a 1" lift on it and threw some 32" <a href="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=37919709&siteid=39251846">tires </a>underneath. I love my Escape, 9months pregnant and still jump into that thing and ready to go!!!
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From: fort smith, ar
2001 Escape Reliability
I have an 01 with 18K miles. So far it's been trouble free. 
That's not always true of all Escapes, or any vehicle for that matter.
That's not always true of all Escapes, or any vehicle for that matter.
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From: New Canaan, CT
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I got mine in feb 01 with 6 miles on it. I saw it come off the truck and said i want that yellow one! It had 3 miles when I went to see it. I just traded it in and got the 03 Ex EB. I gave that thing 35500 miles with no problems at all!!!!!!!! I drive hard and the Escape never skipped a beat. I replaced the tires with BF Goodrich long trails cause i dont trust firestone although the firestones did have better dry traction they sucked in the snow. I couldnt stop down hill in the snow but the BF Goodriches are a real nice choice for the escape.
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From: Vestal, NY
2001 Escape Reliability
The wife and I went for the chrome yellow (better name would be "hello yellow"). Ours is the No Boundaries with tinted windows.
I was looking around on the Internet, and there is one almost identical to ours...
It's the one with the red dice on the side, but without the tinted windows. I saw on another site (last year when we bought it and was looking to see what aftermarket stuff was available) a replacement for the black roof rack air dam where the dam would flip back revealing 4 off road lights. Can't seem to find that site now. That thing was cool. Locked forward it maintained the stock look. I think there was a lever or something inside to flip the lights without leaving the drivers seat, but it could have been driven by an electric motor too.
I was looking around on the Internet, and there is one almost identical to ours...
It's the one with the red dice on the side, but without the tinted windows. I saw on another site (last year when we bought it and was looking to see what aftermarket stuff was available) a replacement for the black roof rack air dam where the dam would flip back revealing 4 off road lights. Can't seem to find that site now. That thing was cool. Locked forward it maintained the stock look. I think there was a lever or something inside to flip the lights without leaving the drivers seat, but it could have been driven by an electric motor too.
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From: New Canaan, CT
2001 Escape Reliability
I had the yellow one also. I think the yellow shows all the lines in the escape. I painted some of the trim yellow to accent the outsides paint and give it a bit of caracter. The V6 is a peppy little thing too! It's not faster than the torus cause a co worker has one and we wanted to see if there was a difference.....lol but for an SUV the thing moves and handles well. I loved flooring it on the high way and feeling it down shift to 2nd and speed away.............................................. .
