Hey all,
I got this 08 escape for free from a friend who decided it wasn't worth the money to fix. Decent shape for the age and miles.
She's been driving it with a whining rear diff and starting it with the remote start because her key would only work sometimes if she jiggled it a bunch.
She took it to a well known trusted local garage and they told her how much for the rear and she gave up.
They couldn't get it started when she dropped it off. I winched it on my trailer last night and brought it home. Put my jump pack on it, wiggled the key a bunch and it fired right up!
List of problems in order of concern:
1. Intermittent starting -- Possibly fixed
1A. Apparently the power steering is iffy.
2. Whining rear diff
3. Leaking sunroof (likely the root of half of my issues) -- Fixed unless I find out otherwise
4. Need to get her cds out, it says "CD ERROR"
5. Get a new spare key made -- Added after more looking into #1
@jwalterus has given me a few ideas, as has google.
Anyone else have input? I'll update this as I work on it but it's a back burner project until I get a couple other things done. Pictures to follow.
EDIT: Power steering worked fine first test drive and not 30min later when my wife got home. Car was running the whole time. That could be a problem.
I got this 08 escape for free from a friend who decided it wasn't worth the money to fix. Decent shape for the age and miles.
She's been driving it with a whining rear diff and starting it with the remote start because her key would only work sometimes if she jiggled it a bunch.
She took it to a well known trusted local garage and they told her how much for the rear and she gave up.
They couldn't get it started when she dropped it off. I winched it on my trailer last night and brought it home. Put my jump pack on it, wiggled the key a bunch and it fired right up!
List of problems in order of concern:
1. Intermittent starting -- Possibly fixed
1A. Apparently the power steering is iffy.
2. Whining rear diff
3. Leaking sunroof (likely the root of half of my issues) -- Fixed unless I find out otherwise
4. Need to get her cds out, it says "CD ERROR"
5. Get a new spare key made -- Added after more looking into #1
@jwalterus has given me a few ideas, as has google.
Anyone else have input? I'll update this as I work on it but it's a back burner project until I get a couple other things done. Pictures to follow.
EDIT: Power steering worked fine first test drive and not 30min later when my wife got home. Car was running the whole time. That could be a problem.
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