pierremathieu44@sympatico.ca

You're right. I forgot to say that he first made the oil transmission come to the right temperature and with the new dip stick he could see that there was too much oil so he removed some and then still at the right temperature( he had to warm up the oil transmission again) he added a little ( not even a quarter of a pint) to get the correct reading as in SSM 20836. By the way, I haven't towed the car yet. We going to Florida next week but in those conditions we aren't towing the car. We're flying back home for X-MAS. Then we'll drive back to Florida in January. If Ford hasn't solved the problem, end of April we are coming back home, towing the car for a 1600 miles trip. Will it take a couple of weeks coming home? We live in Quebec. Let's hope that they will find a solution. We're not a big concern for Ford but still my mechanic told me that a transmission is 8000$, maybe that will make them work harder.....

I went for the same procedure today. SInce i'ts a small dealer, I accompanied the mechanic. He took reading of the temperature with the engine connected to a computer. You're right, the mechanic had a lot of experience with transmissions, he put the trans in gear until we got the exact temperature 199F than he added oil and checked the reading very carefully. It's difficult to see since the oil is clean but we had the exact reading as required by the TSB o9-20-13. The dealer couldn't do more but he put the problem on the computer and will advise if Ford comes up with another solution

Hello, Kathy and Kim. I read your messages with great interest. My dealer faxed me the technical bulletins concerning the matter.It looks like the solutionthey gave youlooks ok. You correct this problem by changing the dipstick for the transmission and follow the procedure for operating within the safe level of fluid and a few more details before towing( shift the gears after running the motor idle for five minutes and repeat after every 6 hours of towing+no more than 65 milles speed. I haven't towed my Escape 2009 yet and I will go to my dealer before towing to have the vereything corrected. I'm curioius to know what happened on your Sept.12th trip. Did eveything go well? I'm from Quebec city and I'm probably one of the first owner to make this changes so your "nightmare" was of great help. Thank You Pierre Mathieu