Ford escape heater motor replacement

This should apply to most 2013-2019 Escapes with dual zone auto temp controls. If you have manual controls the procedure should be pretty similar.
Hopefully this helps someone out!
0:00 intro
2:02 fuse location
2:59 blower motor and resistor plug
4:14 unplug gas pedal
5:41 testing for power at motor connector
7:05 glove box removal
10:15 fuse block under glove box
13:45 pita bracket
15:42 heater housing bolt locations
16:42 locking tab on blower motor
18:34 heater housing bolt locations

[@SorryGuys-eighty-8]

I've been an auto mechanic for 34 years and diagnosing and performing repairs has become exponentially difficult in the last twenty years. Your perseverance and skill set is excellent as well as your video editing. This repair is by no means easy, but this vid makes it possible for the back yard mechanic. I just subscribed.

[@qvo5498]

thank you for the help. I did it thanks to you posting this video and it saved me 879 dollars that the mechanic wanted to charge me. I know its hard work but I did it my self.

[@turdpailsandtrails]

Glad it helped

[@acsmoothing2262]

Wow, this is the second video of a Ford product where you showed the blower motor to be sunk behind the center stack. The other was a Mazda5, if I remember right. Are newer Ford Escapes (2020 and newer) and Bronco Sports still burying the blower motor this way?

[@turdpailsandtrails]

It looks like they moved the heater motor to a more conventional/less idiotic spot in the later years. Bolted in from the bottom up near the glove box.

[@acsmoothing2262]

@@turdpailsandtrailsThanks! That is just how god intended it to be from the start.