bra83d

my mum also has a 2005 escape with a very similar problem. could you do an experiment for me with yours. at idle if you just give the throttle a quick stab ours will flare to between 3000 and 4000 revs and then hold it and slowly come back to idle it would be interesting to see if yours does similar. mum says that she has had exactly the same thing happen as yours just as though the car wants to go faster than you do. we've had it at the dealers here but still not much chop. Throttle is very ubrupt. i have a ba xr6 and dads got a vz ute and both silky smooth. Before we broght this we had a mazda tribute (same engine gearbox combo) and if you took the air plenum off on the airbox side of the throttle body and opened the throttle it would have a build up of black shit. cleaned it was fairly good. this had to be done about every 6-8 weeks. Premium petrol helped considerably but still didn't completely do away with the problem. I hope we can maybe come up with a solution or atleast se if there are other peopl.e out there with the same issues because this bastard is heading to the second hand lot very soon if it doesnt behave. look forward to hearing how you get on
Brad..