[Drivesthebeast]

Not that long ago I had intermittent problems with my Escape...with random things not working, and eventually, more than one thing at a time. It ended up being the battery itself, and I bought the Motorcraft MAX version, as it has a longer warranty an higher CCA than the original service battery. I overpaid for it, but at least they checked all of my grounds, my starter, solenoid, and alternator. I'm just waiting for the automatic or the rear diff to grenade itself all over the road (mine seems to have a very rare, as far as escapes go, desire to shift violently in and out of 2nd gear sometimes, depending on my rolling speed and how much I'm using the accelerator). It seems to downshift poorly mostly when I take my foot off the gas at lower speed (under 50k) and coast in stop and go traffic. I've had the transmission's computer reflashed once already, and that fixed the problem for about 3 months, so I'm wondering if I have a TPS problem, or if it IS the valve bodies in the tranny, which would suck bigtime. I've already had the transmission flushed too at 80K.

Anyways, sorry to threadjack, hopefully you have got your troubles sorted...