I HATE this Escort!

[AllanD]

Last summer my brother Moved to Wyoming.

Deciding (rationally) that the Escort would be just about useless
in Wyoming (considering that it would have been incapable of
getting IN to his driveway let alone UP his driveway he gave
it to my mother....

Very recently I get a call from her, "It won't move".

Turns out the tip end of the shift cable snapped off...

therein lies the tale.

I'm pretty sure that the VERY FIRST part installed into the
bare painted unit body is that damned shifter cable, because I had
to practically remove the dash and center console to get that #^*&#$^#@
out of the car.

The thought of doing it again to get one out of a donor car in the junkyard frankly fills me with dread.

what scares me even more than a herd of stampeding lawyers
is the idea that the junkyard shifter cable could break and I'd have to
do it a third time.

I have take a blood oath (as my bleeding hands dripped from the twenty or so cuts from every artfully sharpened serrated cutting edge that composes the console/dash framing) that if this EVER needs to be done again I will first BURN the car, then drown the chared remains in Holy water (regardless of how much a priest might charge to bless the contents of my swimming pool)
and only then have it crushed and shreded.

I HATE this car.


ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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[RobbieD]

Bummer. A real repair from Hell. Sometimes the engineers deserve a good 'ole fashion ass-whooping.

Well, I figure you'll fix this time, but next time "it won't won't move", it ought to just have some kind of "electrical problem", and let it burn up. And don't waste the money on Holy Water; piss on it.

 

[Will]

There are still Ford Escorts on the road?

Oh my God!

[reaches for a bracer]

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

whats that supposed to mean? ive got one with 230,000 miles and the other with probably close to it. escorts really dont die. even after allan's burning, exorcising, crushing, and shredding...some mexican will buy it and drive it around blowing blue smoke for 4 months.

(no offense to any mexicans in the crowd)

 

[4x4RangerGuy]

whats that supposed to mean? ive got one with 230,000 miles and the other with probably close to it. escorts really dont die. even after allan's burning, exorcising, crushing, and shredding...some mexican will buy it and drive it around blowing blue smoke for 4 months.

(no offense to any mexicans in the crowd)

+1

My ex-gf gave me her 91 Escort cuz she said the motor was seized. Turns out the timing belt snapped. I replaced the timing belt, and she started right up (I love non-interference motors). It had 197K, and other than the typical blue smoke from the valve seat issue in the heads, it was a great car. It lasted me all summer during my M5OD swap and I only junked it because my boss's gf totalled it in a car accident.

Escorts are great beater cars. I will never underestimate them.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Escorts are tough.

I had 2, a 91 with a 1.9L\5sp and an 94 with a 1.9L\auto. The 94 had a weak tranny, but the 91 was a great little car. It would go good in the snow, had alotta power (for what it was, i dusted more then a few civics) and got like 35MPG.

My sister had a 88 Escort with the TBI 1.9L and a 4sp, that little thing was a rocket ship, it was a pony model with no PS or PB, my dad drove it to kentucky one time and got 48MPG......no lie.

They are tough cars, all of them lived to well over 200K, with no work, except for the 94 which i had to put like 3 trannys in.

One was my fault though, I got it stuck and rocked it to hard.

later,
Dustin

 

[AllanD]

The Escort in question is a 1998 with a 2.0 Split-port.

Peppy little sucker too...

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[Will]

Just looking on Wikipedia and the car I recognize as an Escort is the '81-'90. I have seen the other cars they list as Escort sequels, but didn't recognize them as Escorts. Just look like little cars to me so I don't pay any attention to them.

 

[Simple_serf]

WS:

Aint that the truth! I was laughing for a good minute or two on that comment!

Our 07 Field car was a 95 escort. We ran it over heated for about 2 hrs, heard a loud bang, lost all of the coolant, ran for 20 more minutes, another Bang, lost all the oil pressure and still ran it for 3/4 of a mile on our redneck oval track. all of this was at WOT, after beating on it for 2 days before. I have alot of respect for that car.

 

[rickcdewitt]

I HATE this car.


ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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my sister inherited an escort and drove it with no problems until she had the oil changed at a jiffy lube where they left a rag on the exhaust which caught the carb and everything on fire.being ever so mechanically inclined she drove it with flames coming out until it woulden't go anymore(melted sparkplug wires and no coolant) and then ran back and forth in front of it until the fire department arrived.glad it ended at that