Electronics Can't Lie: A Detailed Analysis of a 2016 Ford Escape 1.6 Liter Automatic Gasoline Vehicle with a Camper Conversion

As we plug in the electronics, the computer diagnoses reveal that this vehicle is a 2016 Ford Escape with a 1.6 liter automatic gasoline engine and federal emissions. We'll analyze the data to see what's happening inside this camper conversion.

The interior of the vehicle has held up well, with no major cracks or damage. The camper conversion adds a lot of room to the vehicle, making it a great option for those who need space. Despite its age, the interior still looks like new, with minimal wear and tear.

A quick scan of all the data reveals no faults in the system. With an estimated 80,000 miles on the odometer, this vehicle has been well-maintained and cared for. The electronics diagnose reveal a clean bill of health, with no major issues to report.

Looking at the yellow section of the data, which indicates potential issues, we don't see any major problems. However, there is a lot of data to sift through, as these modern vehicles have a vast array of systems and sensors that provide detailed information about their condition.

A closer look at the fuel rail pressure shows that everything is within normal ranges. This is a great sign, as fuel pressure can be a major issue in older vehicles. With this data, we can feel confident that the vehicle's engine is running smoothly and efficiently.

As we move on to the transmission system, we still don't see any orange flags, indicating potential issues. The rattling sound coming from the back of the vehicle is likely due to the camper conversion, which is a separate entity from the vehicle itself.

The turbocharger information is available, providing valuable insight into the engine's performance. With this data, we can get a better understanding of how the vehicle is running and what might be causing any issues that arise.

The transmission system remains clear, with no major problems reported. This is a great sign for anyone looking to purchase this vehicle, as it indicates that the vehicle will be reliable and require minimal maintenance in the future.

Now, let's take a look at some bonus information. If you're in the market for a classic Mercedes-Benz station wagon or one of their G Wagons, there's a Japanese company called Era that creates them from scratch. They start at a price of $31,000 and include the vehicle itself, which is a great deal considering the cost of a tear-down restoration, which can reach up to $53,000.

For those who want a completely customized ride, Era offers that as well, but it's still a fraction of the cost of purchasing a brand-new vehicle. These cars are built like tanks and have been known to go over 500,000 miles with proper maintenance. They're truly unique vehicles that offer a glimpse into the past.

For those looking for a reliable used crossover SUV, a 2016 Ford Escape may not be the best option. However, for those who want a fun-to-drive vehicle at a lower price point, it's definitely worth considering. With its ample room and camper conversion, this vehicle offers a great combination of space and practicality.

Bonus questions and answers:

Q: Can you build a classic Mercedes-Benz station wagon or one of their G Wagons from scratch?

A: Yes, a Japanese company called Era creates them from scratch, starting at $31,000. They include the vehicle itself in the price.

Q: What is the cost of a tear-down restoration compared to purchasing an Era-created vehicle?

A: The cost of a tear-down restoration can reach up to $53,000, while purchasing an Era-created vehicle starts at $31,000.

Q: Are these cars built like tanks and how far have they been known to go?

A: Yes, these cars are built like tanks and have been known to go over 500,000 miles with proper maintenance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow this particular one is a 2017 ford escape now ford puts it as part of their suvs but really it's a crossover vehicle so what it comes down to is it's one of the lowest price american-made crossover vehicles and here's what you get now this particular one is the turbo all-wheel drive it was a 27 000 vehicle when it was new and for that you get a pretty sharp looking crossover vehicle four doors it's the sc ecoboost with turbocharger four-wheel drive so this one has dual exhaust one air one air and enough power to tow 2 000 pounds value of a car like this today it's maybe about 16 000 in terms of the blue book value it held its value pretty well now you can watch my videos on the fantasy nature of blue book value but a lot of people go buy them so it's not a horrible resale for one main reason it's a crossover suv a lot of people like them they have a lot of room inside now this one is a unique one we'll open the door because i already made a video about this my customer turned it into a one-person camper for his daughter as you can tell by the back i got a reasonable amount of room you take those seats down look at that ah that space yes there's a lot of room when you put the mattress down all right bad store stuff in here there's no stove under here little shelf even a burglar alarm and in this case you can see they've taken the rear seats out so they have even more room to put stuff you can build them back in if you want so it's a small crossover even though ford calls it an suv it's got a lot of space whether you turn it into a camper or just have it as a regular vehicle of course the big question is how did it hold up well let's find out this baby has 80 000 miles on it and the interior has held up pretty well we'll start it up starts right up freezing cold ac that's still working even though the actuators inside are getting creaky listen to this when you turn it off let's just say it has a personality all the plastic crap in the dash for the ac heating system they got actuators electric motors and doors they open and close you can hear them creak because that's notorious for ford you know they work but they make noise just like the old fords the power steering pumps often rewind yeah yeah even when they're full of fluid as they age but they work so it was something you kind of live with with a ford and what's under the hood okay it's got a 1.6 liter ecoboost it's a four cylinder engine turbocharged gdi puts out about 178 horsepower plenty enough to move this thing along and even though it needs an oil change the oil is still full the owner says it doesn't burn any oil so the engine's still in good shape i've seen cars that were four times older than this car three times the mileage that still had the original wheel bearings but i don't know what it was forged they're not going to make wheel bearings anymore some of them had to be changed on it not an outrageous expense but still an annoying thing that they should make better in the first place well that's good news in this this is a six-speed automatic transmission with overdrive has it had problems no it's performed perfectly and it still shifts pretty good this is not that dual clutch transmission that they put in those fiestas and the focuses where ford had to fix them and now they got to buy the cars back no it's not that garbage it's a pretty reliable six-speed automatic transmission that they put in all of the focuses it doesn't matter which engine you get in it the 1.6 turbo or the 2.0 liter it doesn't matter they all use the same transmission and it is a pretty good automatic transmission it's a conventional automatic transmission with a torque converter it isn't that dual clutch garbage that ford made that had problems with so you don't have to worry about the transmissions in these generally how does it handle it handles surprisingly well that's one of the big advantages of this thing especially since it's a four-wheel drive vehicle if you're in the rain the snow it actually handles quite well i'll definitely give it that let's take it for a spin check it out okay side starts right up turn to the key kind of a small backup camera i'll give it that it works but it is rather small that tiny 1.6 liter four-cylinder yourself got a little shake it idle it's not the smoothest thing when you're idling along neither is it the quietest it makes a reasonable amount of noise especially when you're accelerating but on a plus side it corners quite well maybe a little bit rough ride generally these crossovers are a little smoother riding okay now we'll see how it accelerates with all-wheel drive and that little bitty 1.6 that does have a turbo here goes nothing makes a lot of noise it does accelerate but it certainly doesn't throw you back in your seat but the transmission still shifts like a dream and if you take it on the highway it's a reasonable highway ride a tad bit noisy but uh it is the cheapest price one you gotta realize that and as i said the ride you hit bumps it's a little bit bumpy you feel it it's kind of a short wheelbase and not the greatest suspension in the world not the worst but you know you kind of get what you pay for this kind of price range now comes the real electronics test the scan tool to see what kind of shape it's actually in electronically can't lie to the computer diagnosis baby usa forward here we go for vehicles so it reads it automatically knows exactly what the vehicle is cases escape ecoboost 1.6 liter automatic gasoline federal emissions and now we're going to analyze and see what's happening and while we're waiting the interior is held up pretty well no cracks no big reps or anything with this camper conversion man this baby has a lot of room in it there's no arguing that well done let's check no faults no faults at all so 80 000 miles later there's no electronic vaults in it can't argue with that a quick scan of all the data there's a lot of data in these things we'll do live data and i'll start analyzing it all look at the data i'm looking for in the yellow first which means there's bad data something's a bit off so far i don't find any it'll be a lot of data because this is a late model car uh you got to know a lot to understand what this stuff means but at least with this color-coded stuff if you don't see any oranges no faults no oranges yet like i say there's an awful lot of dead i'm actually going to go through all of them here so you can see all the information you can get on a modern car there is a lot of information we mechanics are able to access just by plugging in one of these machines fuel rail pressure all kinds of stuff and so far none of it is bad we're only at the g's see i'm telling you maybe i'll fast forward this with speed so you don't have to watch all this i don't think there's going to be any oranges but you never know we're still going we're only on the eyes now there's still no oranges still no oranges like i say there's a tremendous amount of data that you can get with one of these machines now we're in the transmission system they're still all black none of them are orange the rattling you hear is the converted camper in the back you can't blame the car on that one that's the wood rattling like i say these little four-zone engines they don't idle perfect you'll always get a little bit of jiggle with them gives you the turbo charger information there now we got all the information and there was no oranges look at all that there it goes more and more information we look at it all so really what i have to say about this little crossover suv hey not a great car but not a bad car either will it go three or four hundred thousand miles like a toyota rav4 or a honda crv no probably not but on the plus side it's a fun car to drive and if you go use like my customer did you're going to pay a lot less than you are for a rav4 or a honda crv they just hold their resale values too much so you want to go on a cheap do a small crossover suv hey getting a good used escape might not be a bad idea and here's some bonus questions and answers now here's an odd one if you want a flawless classic mercedes-benz station wagon or one of their g wagons galadan vegans there's a japanese company that now creates them that you can buy the name of the company is called era and it's in kawasaki japan at a starting price of about thirty one thousand dollars it'll build you a 1980s mercedes station wagon or one of their galadan vegans and that even includes the car you have to buy the car and then they had that on that includes the car now if you want a tear down restoration that can cost you 53 000 but still you get something like that solid built tear down restoration not really a bad deal and consider you get a reconditioned car for 53 grand top of the line and a lot of people pay 52 grand just for the custom stuff of a car that they're buying you get the car with this and in those days in the 80s yes they built them like tanks they were solid built vehicles now they're all cars they're before people had airbags but they were simple cars and they were well-built cars it's not uncommon of these over-built mercedes from the 80s to go over 500 000 miles i've had customers do that it was back in the 80s 90s though so it's kind of like a time capsule and since the japanese are the ones that are doing them over i'm sure they'll do a very good job draw a lot of the original japanese car stuff was just copied from the germans they fled out copied half of the stuff that they made so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell younow this particular one is a 2017 ford escape now ford puts it as part of their suvs but really it's a crossover vehicle so what it comes down to is it's one of the lowest price american-made crossover vehicles and here's what you get now this particular one is the turbo all-wheel drive it was a 27 000 vehicle when it was new and for that you get a pretty sharp looking crossover vehicle four doors it's the sc ecoboost with turbocharger four-wheel drive so this one has dual exhaust one air one air and enough power to tow 2 000 pounds value of a car like this today it's maybe about 16 000 in terms of the blue book value it held its value pretty well now you can watch my videos on the fantasy nature of blue book value but a lot of people go buy them so it's not a horrible resale for one main reason it's a crossover suv a lot of people like them they have a lot of room inside now this one is a unique one we'll open the door because i already made a video about this my customer turned it into a one-person camper for his daughter as you can tell by the back i got a reasonable amount of room you take those seats down look at that ah that space yes there's a lot of room when you put the mattress down all right bad store stuff in here there's no stove under here little shelf even a burglar alarm and in this case you can see they've taken the rear seats out so they have even more room to put stuff you can build them back in if you want so it's a small crossover even though ford calls it an suv it's got a lot of space whether you turn it into a camper or just have it as a regular vehicle of course the big question is how did it hold up well let's find out this baby has 80 000 miles on it and the interior has held up pretty well we'll start it up starts right up freezing cold ac that's still working even though the actuators inside are getting creaky listen to this when you turn it off let's just say it has a personality all the plastic crap in the dash for the ac heating system they got actuators electric motors and doors they open and close you can hear them creak because that's notorious for ford you know they work but they make noise just like the old fords the power steering pumps often rewind yeah yeah even when they're full of fluid as they age but they work so it was something you kind of live with with a ford and what's under the hood okay it's got a 1.6 liter ecoboost it's a four cylinder engine turbocharged gdi puts out about 178 horsepower plenty enough to move this thing along and even though it needs an oil change the oil is still full the owner says it doesn't burn any oil so the engine's still in good shape i've seen cars that were four times older than this car three times the mileage that still had the original wheel bearings but i don't know what it was forged they're not going to make wheel bearings anymore some of them had to be changed on it not an outrageous expense but still an annoying thing that they should make better in the first place well that's good news in this this is a six-speed automatic transmission with overdrive has it had problems no it's performed perfectly and it still shifts pretty good this is not that dual clutch transmission that they put in those fiestas and the focuses where ford had to fix them and now they got to buy the cars back no it's not that garbage it's a pretty reliable six-speed automatic transmission that they put in all of the focuses it doesn't matter which engine you get in it the 1.6 turbo or the 2.0 liter it doesn't matter they all use the same transmission and it is a pretty good automatic transmission it's a conventional automatic transmission with a torque converter it isn't that dual clutch garbage that ford made that had problems with so you don't have to worry about the transmissions in these generally how does it handle it handles surprisingly well that's one of the big advantages of this thing especially since it's a four-wheel drive vehicle if you're in the rain the snow it actually handles quite well i'll definitely give it that let's take it for a spin check it out okay side starts right up turn to the key kind of a small backup camera i'll give it that it works but it is rather small that tiny 1.6 liter four-cylinder yourself got a little shake it idle it's not the smoothest thing when you're idling along neither is it the quietest it makes a reasonable amount of noise especially when you're accelerating but on a plus side it corners quite well maybe a little bit rough ride generally these crossovers are a little smoother riding okay now we'll see how it accelerates with all-wheel drive and that little bitty 1.6 that does have a turbo here goes nothing makes a lot of noise it does accelerate but it certainly doesn't throw you back in your seat but the transmission still shifts like a dream and if you take it on the highway it's a reasonable highway ride a tad bit noisy but uh it is the cheapest price one you gotta realize that and as i said the ride you hit bumps it's a little bit bumpy you feel it it's kind of a short wheelbase and not the greatest suspension in the world not the worst but you know you kind of get what you pay for this kind of price range now comes the real electronics test the scan tool to see what kind of shape it's actually in electronically can't lie to the computer diagnosis baby usa forward here we go for vehicles so it reads it automatically knows exactly what the vehicle is cases escape ecoboost 1.6 liter automatic gasoline federal emissions and now we're going to analyze and see what's happening and while we're waiting the interior is held up pretty well no cracks no big reps or anything with this camper conversion man this baby has a lot of room in it there's no arguing that well done let's check no faults no faults at all so 80 000 miles later there's no electronic vaults in it can't argue with that a quick scan of all the data there's a lot of data in these things we'll do live data and i'll start analyzing it all look at the data i'm looking for in the yellow first which means there's bad data something's a bit off so far i don't find any it'll be a lot of data because this is a late model car uh you got to know a lot to understand what this stuff means but at least with this color-coded stuff if you don't see any oranges no faults no oranges yet like i say there's an awful lot of dead i'm actually going to go through all of them here so you can see all the information you can get on a modern car there is a lot of information we mechanics are able to access just by plugging in one of these machines fuel rail pressure all kinds of stuff and so far none of it is bad we're only at the g's see i'm telling you maybe i'll fast forward this with speed so you don't have to watch all this i don't think there's going to be any oranges but you never know we're still going we're only on the eyes now there's still no oranges still no oranges like i say there's a tremendous amount of data that you can get with one of these machines now we're in the transmission system they're still all black none of them are orange the rattling you hear is the converted camper in the back you can't blame the car on that one that's the wood rattling like i say these little four-zone engines they don't idle perfect you'll always get a little bit of jiggle with them gives you the turbo charger information there now we got all the information and there was no oranges look at all that there it goes more and more information we look at it all so really what i have to say about this little crossover suv hey not a great car but not a bad car either will it go three or four hundred thousand miles like a toyota rav4 or a honda crv no probably not but on the plus side it's a fun car to drive and if you go use like my customer did you're going to pay a lot less than you are for a rav4 or a honda crv they just hold their resale values too much so you want to go on a cheap do a small crossover suv hey getting a good used escape might not be a bad idea and here's some bonus questions and answers now here's an odd one if you want a flawless classic mercedes-benz station wagon or one of their g wagons galadan vegans there's a japanese company that now creates them that you can buy the name of the company is called era and it's in kawasaki japan at a starting price of about thirty one thousand dollars it'll build you a 1980s mercedes station wagon or one of their galadan vegans and that even includes the car you have to buy the car and then they had that on that includes the car now if you want a tear down restoration that can cost you 53 000 but still you get something like that solid built tear down restoration not really a bad deal and consider you get a reconditioned car for 53 grand top of the line and a lot of people pay 52 grand just for the custom stuff of a car that they're buying you get the car with this and in those days in the 80s yes they built them like tanks they were solid built vehicles now they're all cars they're before people had airbags but they were simple cars and they were well-built cars it's not uncommon of these over-built mercedes from the 80s to go over 500 000 miles i've had customers do that it was back in the 80s 90s though so it's kind of like a time capsule and since the japanese are the ones that are doing them over i'm sure they'll do a very good job draw a lot of the original japanese car stuff was just copied from the germans they fled out copied half of the stuff that they made so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell you\n"