# You might want to park your Escape or Bronco Sport outside **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** escape, ford\ **Created:** [November 26, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601 "2022-11-26T16:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/1 "2022-11-26T16:07:29Z")
… until the latest fire-hazard recall for those models has been completed on your vehicle. > **[Ford recalls over half a million SUVs after 20 fires break out | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/25/business/ford-escape-bronco-sport-recall/index.html)** > > Ford has announced another SUV recall, this time impacting about 520,000 Ford Escape and Bronco Sport compacts in the United States. Potential cracks in the vehicles' fuel line could cause fires to break out under the hood of some cars, according to... ---
**Author:** ![TheWonderful90s](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thewonderful90s/32/29584_2.png) [@TheWonderful90s](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheWonderful90s)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/2 "2022-11-26T19:41:38Z")
Do people not know how to smell leaking fuel anymore? ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/3 "2022-11-27T13:36:09Z")
My neighbor just bought a new Escape. I don’t know if they have the 3-cyl engine, but it’s disheartening when your week-old car has the fire-prone engine. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/4 "2022-11-27T22:03:01Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > it’s disheartening when your week-old car has the fire-prone engine. I wonder if the problem is the fuel line or the fuel line connections? I’m guessing the latter. Ford engineers may have been trying to introduce an unproved fuel-line connector innovation, and some problems remain ---
**Author:** ![bscar2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar2/32/2468_2.png) [@bscar2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar2)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/5 "2022-11-28T02:46:05Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > but it’s disheartening when your week-old car has the fire-prone engine. Try seeing all of the dolts out there talking about EVs catching fire when they get wet in the rain. It’s even worse than the Pinto PR disaster. ---
**Author:** ![GorehamJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/gorehamj/32/24103_2.png) [@GorehamJ](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GorehamJ)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/6 "2022-11-30T21:20:49Z")
About 11 years ago I started looking for paid writing gigs. One of my first stories I was paid for (literally pennies) was about an Escape with an engine fire recall. [Will the 2013 Ford Escape be branded a lemon | Torque News](https://www.torquenews.com/1083/will-2013-ford-escape-be-branded-lemon) ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/you-might-want-to-park-your-escape-or-bronco-sport-outside/187601/7 "2022-11-30T21:25:33Z")
> [@bscar2](#): > > Pinto PR disaster. Disaster for Ford maybe, but definitely a cash-cow for America’s comedians …