Have an 08 Escape Hybrid with a C1524 code. I guess the brake pedal travel sensor is bad. Is there a way to fix the sensor instead of replacing it? It's too hard to find a replacement part.

 

Pull it out and clean the switch? See what's going on with it.

 

This fellow has a video about it:


If you get the M/C from a boneyard, you can swap the sensor. He says you can't buy the sensor by itself.

You might be able to take it apart and CLEAN it internally.

 

What's also interesting from that video: there is clearly a LABEL on that sensor with a couple of barcodes and other info. printed on it. The video isn't high enough resolution to adequately magnify, but I will bet that unit DOES have a part number, perhaps encoded in the barcode.

If you have a barcode reader you might be able to read the number! Anyone with a Motorcraft subscription may also be able to look it up.

I will bet it's expensive/unobtanium as a discrete unit because Ford wants you to buy the whole master cylinder. So you are looking at taking yours apart and trying to get it working or salvaging one from a boneyard.

 

And Lo! The Ford part number IS available, but the part itself is disco according to this website:

https://www.fordpartsgiant.com/parts...-2c050-aa.html

Ford YL8Z-2C050-AA

Sensor Assembly2001-2012 Ford YL8Z2C050AA

You can buy it from people who have it for less than $15? If that's true it's a little miracle!

https://www.google.com/search?q=YL8Z...hrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Look at color pictures of that actual part number from your Google search. It does not look like the correct part.

 

It may not be, you're right. I was doing my best with a quick search (I've never had to replace this part.) My main point is that from the video there is clearly a label stuck to that part with at least two barcodes on it. Maybe it is a pure internal Ford P/N not available to the general public, but you can take it apart from what I see.

 

Hit the junkyard. It's probably the same as the gas escape sensor.