CarComplaints.com Notes: You should probably steer clear of the 2012 Focus. Otherwise, you might not be able to steer at all.
The 2012 is the first Focus to offer Electronic Power Assist Steering (EPAS). It's also the first year with massive power steering failure. These things are not mutually exclusive.
The cruise control fails to power up less than 50% of the time. Last weekend, it failed to disengage using the switch on the steering wheel, but tapping the brake worked. Then the cruise would not power down. Scared te bejabbers out of me. After having the car tonthe dealer, where it would not malfunction, I was told to, "try it out on the way home." Right!
the problem may sound insignificant to some but for a person on the road all the time like i am the need for cruise control is high and not to mention when you pay for a fully loaded car that can park it self and damn cruise won't work. Well there's no excuse. So not only does it not work most day, the days it does you don't know when its going to stop working cruising down the highway and the thing disengages and then will not go back on. But in retrospect my main issue was not with the fact that the thing will not work its the way I was treated at the dealership when I told them the problem they acted as if I was handicapped and didn't know how to push the frigin' button. I assume the problem is somewhere in the software but there is still no reason for it. I am hoping for a fix soon or the first ford I purchased will be my last.
- andrewsmith@live.c,
Tide Head, New Brunswick, canada
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