CarComplaints.com Notes: For the third year in a row, the 3rd generation Focus is experiencing massive transmission problems.
Most notably owners keep complaining about how there's bad hesitation and jerking when starting from a stop. This isn't the result of an old, worn out part. In fact, the average mileage it's reported to us is just over 15k miles.
Was brand new engine, ran very rough, rpm gauge bounced up and down. first new vehicle I ever owned, figured the engine needed to be broken in, never stopped, also never knew how much power it was going to put out when pulling out into traffic.
Okay, our 2014 Ford Focus SE Hatchback with the 2.0 liter I4 GDI engine suffered the recall symptoms, namely the RPMS were going up and down by 300 to 400 while my foot was steady on the accelerator, so I assumed that maybe there could be some crud on an injector or a spark plug and I floored the accelerator and then the RPM starter fluctuating by 1K to 2K just before the engine completely died. We were able to coast into a gas station/quick stop place and had the car towed to Athens Ford, where it had its wiring harness fixed.
However, now that it's been fixed, I can still see some minor RPM variation while driving and wonder if the problem is going to reappear. It's no fun driving a car that is giving signals that it might fail again.
Update from Jun 20, 2015: This is still going on. Sometimes it is much worse and sometimes not so bad. What's going on? Maybe the new TSB 157090210 will help?
- John H.,
Athens, GA, US
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Was brand new engine, ran very rough, rpm gauge bounced up and down. first new vehicle I ever owned, figured the engine needed to be broken in, never stopped, also never knew how much power it was going to put out when pulling out into traffic.
- Scott I., Fairfield, VT, US