hobbit
05-30-2008, 12:05 AM
I had a chance to look at an acquaintance's Escape hybrid a couple
of days ago, who was complaining that he'd occasionally get some
sort of high temp warning [unclear if for the engine or hybrid
system], and eventually the screen would say "stop now" and the
thing would disable itself. A key-off-on restart seeed to reset
it so he could keep driving, but it's not what you call a
confidence-building situation. His A/C works fine [relevant
because of its role in battery cooling], all the fluids are
okay, etc. I will also note that someone is recently asking
about similar issues over in Priuschat (http://priuschat.com/forums/f/48125-problem.html).
.
Is there a TSB on this sort of thing, perhaps? I don't really
keep track of the deeper FEH mysteries, so I thought I'd ping
the collective knowledge here.
.
This guy is also seeing the "service emissions sys" message on the
little LCD every time he starts up. What might that mean? He
seems to think that everyone who owns one of these has that
message all the time and it doesn't mean anything serious. The
car has 90-something K on it, I think, so I'd believe it if
someone said it was a built-in arbitrary mileage timer that
assumes an O2 sensor must need replacement by then. My old
Trooper had something similar in the speedo, that lit whether
the sensor was bad or not.
.
When I drove it, I was of course comparing what I observed with
the Prius UI. The pedal response seemed heavy and delayed by
comparison, almost as though Ford was trying to simulate
everything that's wrong with how stock automatic transmissions
feel. EV mode seemed fairly hard to attain, although I hadn't
read up on FS and LGA recently so I couldn't remember what any
of the tricks were. Other than that it seemed very smooth,
positively cushy at times; I'm sure the tires weren't up to
where they should have been, but the owner isn't really a MPG
fiend and tends to drive the vehicle pretty hard.
.
Anyways, any advice on what to check [preferably for cheap/free]
appreciated. I'll pass it on.
.
_H*
of days ago, who was complaining that he'd occasionally get some
sort of high temp warning [unclear if for the engine or hybrid
system], and eventually the screen would say "stop now" and the
thing would disable itself. A key-off-on restart seeed to reset
it so he could keep driving, but it's not what you call a
confidence-building situation. His A/C works fine [relevant
because of its role in battery cooling], all the fluids are
okay, etc. I will also note that someone is recently asking
about similar issues over in Priuschat (http://priuschat.com/forums/f/48125-problem.html).
.
Is there a TSB on this sort of thing, perhaps? I don't really
keep track of the deeper FEH mysteries, so I thought I'd ping
the collective knowledge here.
.
This guy is also seeing the "service emissions sys" message on the
little LCD every time he starts up. What might that mean? He
seems to think that everyone who owns one of these has that
message all the time and it doesn't mean anything serious. The
car has 90-something K on it, I think, so I'd believe it if
someone said it was a built-in arbitrary mileage timer that
assumes an O2 sensor must need replacement by then. My old
Trooper had something similar in the speedo, that lit whether
the sensor was bad or not.
.
When I drove it, I was of course comparing what I observed with
the Prius UI. The pedal response seemed heavy and delayed by
comparison, almost as though Ford was trying to simulate
everything that's wrong with how stock automatic transmissions
feel. EV mode seemed fairly hard to attain, although I hadn't
read up on FS and LGA recently so I couldn't remember what any
of the tricks were. Other than that it seemed very smooth,
positively cushy at times; I'm sure the tires weren't up to
where they should have been, but the owner isn't really a MPG
fiend and tends to drive the vehicle pretty hard.
.
Anyways, any advice on what to check [preferably for cheap/free]
appreciated. I'll pass it on.
.
_H*