Anything to know about a '11 Escape V6?

[rusty ol ranger]

My eldest daughter has been trying to kill her '11 Escape for past 30 months...quite unsuccessfully

The rust on @rusty ol ranger 's Escape is minor compared to what is on her's. For some reason, the '08-12 were terrible for rust over rear arches/tailgate. The older '01-07 seems to do much better.

I hate the automatic - never seems to be in right gear in city. The traction control is annoying too - I'm 2 or 3 steps ahead of it.

Repairs on her's in last couple years:

Passenger's front window 2X due to thieves in her parking garage.​

Throttle by wire body. Was a long drive 30km/h from her work to my place to get it fixed​

Starter motor​

The boot on her driver's half shaft has been torn for at least 3 years. But CV won't fail (She has replacement shaft but is too lazy to get it installed).​

Transmission leaks but she just tops it up (drives me nuts as I hate oily driveway)​

Hinges on rear glass corroded and failed.​

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Overall, everything that broke has been as easy to fix as my Ranger.

There are Gen IIs with 2.3 Duratec and 5spd manual, but they're as rare as that 8 bolt 8.8. And they're definitely AWD, not 4WD, with automatic - stuck with one wheel spinning was...embarrassing.

wifes was a 2010. Had a 2.5/6sp auto with FWD. It had no balls whatsoever...but was reliable as the sun and got around 28mpg.

The traction control on it was a joke. Numerous times id be "stuck" in 3 inches of snow because the system went so crazy it basically shut down the vehicle. Id shut it off, stand on it, see saw the wheels and out she'd come

 

[scotts90ranger]

The only real issue so far is when cold the transmission will flare some shifting into I think 3rd gear but then shifts solid... he has enough fluid to do 3 drain and fills so hoping that might help some but he apparently looked and the bypass valve in the pump I guess has some wear issues that Sonnax makes a new valve for it but that's a lot of work to get to the pump... Since it shifts solid especially once warmed up (after about 2 miles it shifts fine) hopefully it will last til next winter, we'll see...

 

[racsan]

The first thing I do is shut off the traction control as soon as I start it, if there was a fuse for it alone Id pull it and never look back. Were almost to 180K on it, sometimes it seems like it takes a while to get to top gear if its being drove hard (me lol) she doesn’t have that issue. Ive got some sort of a oil leak up front, doesnt amount to much but the evidence is on the garage floor. At first I thought it was coolant but nope- its oil. Only down a qt at 4,000 miles so not horrible and some of that could be normal blowby at this milage.

 

[Roert42]

I like to put my automatics in Neutral when I'm idling to let the engine warm up. Lets the fluid circulate and com up to temp too. I find that helps eliminate the hard shifting on a cold transmission.