I bought 2007 Ford Focus and had to replace tires at 16,500 miles, they were completely bald. Every year there after to this date 04/17/14, I have to put a set of tires on this car and have alignments done etc. I have never had the tires last more than 17,000 miles. I have contacted and taken to Ford dealership in Winnemucca and Sparks, Nevada and have been told it's not their problem.
The wear is the same, it is not uneven, it is not worn on the sides. The tire company says they can't explain it since they have done alignments and the tires have been spun/balanced????? It is costing me a minimum of $650.00 a year just for the set of tires. Ford is useless as far as help, they just say it's not their problem - car tires are out of balance or front end needs alignment. Strange since the back tires are worn exactly like the front tires.
my car is continuously damaging the rear set of tires , I changed tires three times in 5 years , some people advised me to rotate the tires back to front every 10,000 km but it does not seems working. although I love ford cars but i am really disappointed about this.
This is the second set of tires I have to put this car, I have the extended warranty but I have to pay for the tires out of my own pocket. The guy at the Ford dealership said that the focus is know for this rear end problem, no one told me when I bought it, he also said that you cant put any weight in the rear end because that will cause it. If they knew about the rear end problem and if you did buy the extended warranty shouldn't Ford be the one to replace the tires? I will never buy another Ford again....
Factory tires on my Focus only lasted 1 year. I thought this may mean they were low quality tires. I then bought new tires and have been having to re buy tires every 6 months to 1 year. At times I had wear patterns that turned my tires into hexagons, which the mechanics said only happens on semi trucks. Now the wear is more even but still repid. When I tried rotating tires more often I found that they were just wearing more equally from tire to tire and not lasting any longer. I even tried getting an alignment done in hopes of fixing the problem...it didn't. I like my car in all other aspects, but having to spend a few hundred dollars once or twice a year is NOT ok and has caused me to considering getting a new car Several times.
Anyone thinking about getting a Focus. Don't there are many other comparable options as far as looks, price, power, extras, and affordability. These competitors may not be as roomy, but they also don't eat tires at an alarming rate.
- jo3913,
Spokane, WA, US
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This is the second full set of tires, I took it into Ford for something else and mentioned the poor wear on the tires ( usually rears are bad, so have been replacing rears and then rotating), they said "focuses eat tires!! "you need to rotate them every time you change your oil". They never mentioned this, nor do I believe it says this in the owners manual.
Here we go again with the tires!!! I followed ford's advice about rotating them with each oil change(stupid), and now I'm starting my third set of tires when my focus has only 55,000 miles on it. It always seems to be the rear passenger tire that goes first. Someone said to me that Focuses have some alignment problem in the rear with the tire's alignment vertically? Apparently the dealer won't tell you that as they don't want to fix it.
This car is still under warranty and I want them to fix it. They just keep telling me to rotate the tires. I love this car, but can't afford to keep buying tires at this rate, the tires for this car are 100+. Today I actually found a set for 85/each. That's the cheapest yet. Any advice or any recall that you have heard about would help!!!!
rapid diagonal-pattern rear tire wear, eventually inducing severe shaking from 60-70 MPH (centered at 65, probably the resonant frequency of the rear spring at that load with the scalloped tire wear pattern). Tires were showing steel belt in spots by 20,000 miles.
CAUSE:
a "perfect storm" of conditions
(1) "passive rear steering" design (loading of outside rear wheel in a turn adds to toe-in... great for slalom & skid-pad figures, not so good for straight-line tire wear OR stability, ESPECIALLY with two adults and 100 lbs. of music gear on board)
(2) wide-range allowable alignment spec (0.16-0.56 deg. total... mine was 0.47 with vehicle unloaded)
(3) soft compound Pirelli P6
(4) hot summer I-65 asphalt, with 18-wheeler grooves worn in
REPAIR:
(1) replace tires (highly recommend all four... only doing two almost cost my family's life later- another story for another time)
(2) 4-wheel alignment (limit rear toe-in to MINIMUM spec!)
(3) avoid uneven weight loading if at all possible
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I bought 2007 Ford Focus and had to replace tires at 16,500 miles, they were completely bald. Every year there after to this date 04/17/14, I have to put a set of tires on this car and have alignments done etc. I have never had the tires last more than 17,000 miles. I have contacted and taken to Ford dealership in Winnemucca and Sparks, Nevada and have been told it's not their problem.
The wear is the same, it is not uneven, it is not worn on the sides. The tire company says they can't explain it since they have done alignments and the tires have been spun/balanced????? It is costing me a minimum of $650.00 a year just for the set of tires. Ford is useless as far as help, they just say it's not their problem - car tires are out of balance or front end needs alignment. Strange since the back tires are worn exactly like the front tires.
- Kirsten A., Winnemucca, NV, US