thanks for the reply i have since put vehicle out to pasture....it will make someone a nice new smartcar someday with the amount of metal in it....the other day while driving home i pulled into an intersection and felt a surge then it just died on me got it restarted but afterwards it was only running on 3 cylinders...not sure if a timing chain jumped but i now have misfires on cylinders 1,3,5 and it says the ignition coil a primary circuit/secondary circuit faulty.. so my code reader shows p0301,p0303,p0351,p0305...funny it drove fine going for my birthday breakfast but coming home this....i can't see why it was fine one sec then this..so being unemployed i put it to pasture and gave up on fixing it
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2008 Ford Escape AWD 250,000kms
going to need my head examined buying a car with this many miles on it