{"id":52049,"date":"2017-06-04T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=52049"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T19:48:55","slug":"2008-ford-escape-acceleration-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/06\/2008-ford-escape-acceleration-problem","title":{"rendered":"2008 Ford Escape acceleration problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2008-ford-escape.jpg\" alt=\"2008 Ford Escape\" width=\"477\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2008-ford-escape.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2008-ford-escape-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/>When I step on the accelerator the vehicle will be moving slowly although you expect it to move smoothly. All of a sudden it will move very fast as expected.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sounds like the transmission fluid my be low. Check the fluid level first. If it is low, top it off and test. If it seems OK, look for a leak and repair it to avoid a repeat performance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/transmission-troubleshooting.html\">Transmission Troubleshooting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I step on the accelerator the vehicle will be moving slowly although you expect it to move smoothly. All of a sudden it will move very fast as expected. Sounds like the transmission fluid my be low. Check the fluid level first. If it is low, top it off and test. If it seems&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/06\/2008-ford-escape-acceleration-problem\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Ford Escape acceleration problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-52049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-escape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}