Anyone have an 05 Escape with poor mileage?

Thanks for your input. I guess my Escape get about what your Tribute
gets. I do get a strong fule odor (outside the car) when I start it
up)
Robert


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:40:31 GMT, "classicred" >
wrote:

>Have 04 Mazda tribute awd (same as escape.
>I have calcuated molage since we bought it.
>
>Highway driving with cruise control at 55: 25 mpg
>"" "" more nomral speed: 20 mpg
>Mix of highway and city driving (me going to work): 18 mpg
>City driving stop and go : 15 mpg (if I'm lucky)
>
>Y our mileage sounds fairly normal to me. My friend with 03 escape gets
>roughly same mileage. A little less. He has a bit of lead foot tendency
>though. Hope this makes you feel better.
>
>"Ad absurdum per aspera" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>> Fifteen seems too low and worthy of further diagnosis. However, an
>> incidental mention in Car and Driver's recent article about the Escape
>> Hybrid is illustrative. Their observation, if memory serves, is that
>> an enthusiastic driver with a V6 Escape can get the all-around mileage
>> down into the teens. A four-cylinder or a light foot or preferably
>> both are needed to achieve its EPA figures.
>>
>> For perspective: my old Wagoneer, a full-sized V8 SUV of traditional
>> (read: pre-OPEC) design, used to get about 15 *highway* and I never
>> worked up the nerve to keep track of city mileage. You of course have
>> both a smaller and a vastly more sophisticated vehicle, but it's still
>> heavier, has a lossier driveline, and shoves around a bigger and less
>> aerodynamic shape than a small sedan.
>>
>> --Joe
>>
>

Thanks for you input. Sounds like my car is normal. Kind of a relief
because I don't wnat to bother bringing the car back to the dealer if
I don't have to.


On 20 Jan 2005 13:01:16 -0800, "Fred" > wrote:

>Finite Guy wrote:
>> Hi All: Just wondering if anyone here has a Ford Escape and gets
>> crappy fuel economy. I recently posted here about this. Any
>statistics
>> anyone has is greatly appreciated.
>> I have an 05 Escape Limited and my wife does mostly city driving.
>> Fuel economy is very poor. 147. - 15.0 mpg.
>> The dealer wants me to bring it in to have it checked.
>
>Friend of mine in MI bought a 04 Mazda Tribute (pretty much the same as
>yours) with the 3.0 V6 and has the same exact complaint. His was
>getting around 12 to 13 MPG. They went back and forth for a month and
>nothing was found to be wrong with the engine. At around 12K mile and
>when warmer weather came, the MPG went up to more than what he was
>expecting. New engine and cold weather are not a great way to judge the
>mileage. Give it a few months.

> I do get a strong fule odor (outside the car)
> when I start it up)

Definitely back to the dealer with it, then. Seemingly poor gas
mileage is an ambiguous and multivariate symptom whose main value is
that it's often the first thing you notice. A strong fuel odor is much
more immediate and has many fewer possible causes.


My guess is that some sensor in one of the engine management loops has
croaked and, at least during some part of the warmup cycle, you're
running way over rich.

This can also cause other problems -- if it is allowed to go in you
could end up diluting oil, melting down the innards of the catalytic
converter, etc. So do take them up on their invitation to bring it
in, especially since this is presumably under warranty.

Meanwhile there's an unrelated recall that they might want to take care
of while you're the
http://www.automotive.com/2005/12/ford/escape/recalls/

Cheers,
--Joe