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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.

And while you wait for your steering to disappear, you'll be greeted with a transmission that shudders, vibrates or won't shift at all.

5.0

fairly significant
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
28,650 miles
Total Complaints:
2 complaints

Most Common Solutions:

  1. not sure (2 reports)
2012 Ford Focus electrical problems

electrical problem

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2012 Ford Focus Owner Comments

problem #2

Feb 132014

Focus SE

  • Automatic transmission
  • 17,269 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Ford was unable to identify the problem nor replicate it. Since then, it has only happened three or four times, and I have not taken it in for service. But, I NEVER close the door with the keys inside anymore to prevent getting locked out in the cold. The first time it happened, the baby was in the car, it was the dead of winter and my wife and I were scraping the windshields with the engine running. Fortunately, my wife forgot to lock the door to the house, and we were able to get the spare key from inside. Otherwise, we'd have been stranded in the cold at 4 AM with the engine running and our cell phones inside the locked car.

Very dangerous, and the problem remains unfixed and very random. It has happened four times that I am aware of.

- Dave W., Decatur, IL, US

problem #1

Aug 012014

Focus SEL

  • Automatic transmission
  • 40,000 miles

I lived in the country where I could just leave the keys on the seat. Multiple times I came back and the car had locked itself. I only have one set of keys... So it was locking itself.

- otherannie, Penland, US

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