1991 Ford Escort Consumer Discussions

Ford Escort Electrical Problems

Re: 1991 Ford Escort Wagon "Only half the dashboard lights up" [elmasto]

Written by: maxzep on Jan 29, 2008 04:38 PM

elmasto I noted your post of June 3 2007 and I didn't see any reply... Last night,I lost the left half of my dash lights and have been all over the web looking for a stright answer.....Did you ever get one ? .... Thanks Read More...

1991 Ford Escort GT need some advice

Written by: bellsouthpoker on Jan 28, 2008 09:01 PM

My brother n law owns a 1991 ford escort 1.8L GT and we are having a problem fixing it. Recently it had been running with very little power (i.e when going up hill it lost power and slowed the car down drastically). We were working on it, pulled the distributor cap off, noticed that the contacts on the cap were dirty, scraped them and put the dist. cap back on. Before ... Read More...

1991 Ford Escort Wagon "Only half the dashboard lights up"

Written by: elmasto on Jun 03, 2007 09:50 AM

I have a 5 spd 91 escort wagon...and i have had this problem eversince I got it...just never got around to solving it. Only half the dashboard lights up. The left side...so if i am driving in the dark, I can't see half of the speedometer. Any ideas how to solve it? Read More...

Ford Escort Hatchback

Hi Folks- Ford Escort History

Written by: revka on Feb 22, 2002 07:11 AM

It was once dubbed Ford's "World Car" but now it's part of world history. Gone but not forgotten, read about how this nameplate carried the Ford compact car banner for 20 years only to be replaced by that cross-pond rival, the Focus. Here's the full story from Edmunds' Generations section: A Ford Escort/Mercury Tracer History, by John DiPietro. Let us know what ... Read More...

Ford Escort Wagon

Hi Folks- Ford Escort History

Written by: revka on Feb 22, 2002 06:36 AM

It was once dubbed Ford's "World Car" but now it's part of world history. Gone but not forgotten, read about how this nameplate carried the Ford compact car banner for 20 years only to be replaced by that cross-pond rival, the Focus. Here's the full story from Edmunds' Generations section: A Ford Escort/Mercury Tracer History, by John DiPietro. Let us know what ... Read More...

Ford Escort ZX2

freddy k

Written by: dmould on Aug 16, 2000 03:16 PM

I didn't like the 'passive' rear wheel steering that was built into the rear suspension of the 1991-1996? generation of Escorts. The rear end would step out at different times, and this is not a great thing in a front wheel drive car. Maybe I just wasn't used to it (and I had owned high powered rear wheel drive vehicles - 5.0 Mustang, etc.), but this led to me wrecking ... Read More...