CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2015 Ford Focus & its "Powershift" transmission has a defect trend where the car shudders when accelerating, especially when starting uphill.
Most owners have reported their Ford Focus remains driveable while the vehicle is still at low mileage, but the shuddering is annoying & unpleasant & may reduce the resale value of the vehicle.
However, owners of higher-mileage vehicles from earlier 3rd generation Focus model years report transmission failure & a host of other major & expensive transmission-related problems. Potential buyers beware.
10.0
really awful
Crashes / Fires:
3 / 3
Injuries / Deaths:
4 / 0
Average Mileage:
26,930 miles
About These NHTSA Complaints:
This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
My car is stalling while in motion and at a idle. It will stall after sitting idle for about 15 minutes. I have brought it to a Ford service center and they refused to fix the recall because the diagnostic machine did not show a code when the car was hooked up to the machine.
Car will not start after gas is put into the car. Takes a few times to start it back up and will stall if not thrown into drive real quick and speed off. RPM's will constantly run up. Takes a lot of power to pick up speed or go up a hill.
Hello, my name is [xxx]. I am emailing you because I have a big problem/concern. My car had a recall on something in the transmission. So in April of 2019 I took my car to the shop at carmen Ford in newcastle, de where I purchased my car from. When I took it there the check engine light for the recall had came on and it was jerking. They claim they fixed it. Well in the beginning of December 2019 my check engine light came on with the same code and was jerking again. I took it back to carmen Ford. They had my car three weeks and they said all they had to do was reset two things that weren't matching up. The same day I picked it up I had to take it back because it was still jerking. They had my car two in a half more weeks than called me and said that 4 techs drove my car and they had no problem and it wasn't jerking. So I went up there again on January 13,2020 and did a ride test with bill who at this time had noticed the jerking my car was doing that I was talking about. We turned around and went back to carmen Ford where he said he will let the techs no it's jerking now. Two days later he called me and said the tech did a shutter test and it's normal. He said that sometimes Ford cars do the jerking and that it is normal. I explained to them it has only done it these two times that my check engine light came on with this recall thing. He said there is nothing else to do and my car was ready for pick up. I picked up my car on Friday, January 15,2020. When I picked it up it was making a louder noise than had been, still jerking very bad and now will not reverse. I called the service shop at carmen Ford Saturday morning January 16,2020@ 10:30am and they basically blew me off. This is my only vehicle and I have two young children than I have to drive with in that car and I don't feel it is safe and they are refusing to fix anything but keep telling me it's fine. Information redacted pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).
The car has a hard time accelerating and almost almost doesnt sometimes. The engine was silent but now the engine seems kind of loud when starting up. The car was in motion on the street.
Parked the car, turned motor off, smelled smoke, release inside hood, more smoke coming from under hood, could not open hood up, flames started shooting out, called 911 who called fire department, several small explosions before fire department, whole front car engulfed in flames. Vehicle just turned 21000 miles, H.ad not been driven for a car since I had 2 surgeries for fractured feet and just started driving several weeks ago. Did damage to my sons motor home and driveway. Vehicle had been garage kept since new and no maintenance performed on vehicle other than 1 recall which dealer took care of it in 2/2020. Luckly no one hurt. Vehicle was stationary and just shut off when incident occurred. Can get photos from my daughter-in-law as I didn't take any at the time. Vehicle has been declared a total loss.
While driving my car the center display which has my odometer and digital speed as well as any warnings for my car showed lines across it and it is difficult to read. In researching it I found this is a common occurrence with these cars and it will eventually go completely black and not work at all.
My daughter was driving my car and it just stopped. We had to have the car towed. We had the mechanic come to the house. The car started right up. We went ahead and had the battery checked. The battery was fine. A week later and on a continuous basis we've tried to start the car and it doesn't start at all. The same message continues to appear starting system fault.
The vehicle has stalled, and stopped, and would not start in middle of traffic several times, including the last incident where police had to assist at a red light. So traumatic, not driven since and continue to pay notes and insurance. Have had vechile towed to dealership several times, and problem still exists. Please help. Thanks.
Driver statement = on my way home from work at approximately 03:00(am) I was driving the gov traveling westbound on 72nd avenue past the intersection of pierce street. I noticed the cabin of the car starting to fill with smoke, then I noticed a small flame under the hood of the car. So then I immediately pulled over got out of the car and called 911. When the arvada police arrived on the scene, they had a small fire extinguisher which they tried to extinguish the fire. Shortly after that the arvada fire department arrived and put the fire out. No one was injured and there was not any property damage other than the gov.
Went into a store, parked in parking spot, came out, got in car, placed car in reverse to back out of spot, car began to back up, then slowed down and stopped with engine still on, . I then placed car in drive, went forward, then attempted to back out again, car backed up, then slowed down again, then jerked really hard. After waiting for the cars parked on the right and left side of me to leave, I placed car in reverse again, it stopped again, I placed car in drive, car accelerated slowly, then gave a hard jerk again, and I was able to drive forward and make a complete circle, and drive forward out of the parking spot a half a mile home. Upon entering my driveway, car began to accelerate and stopped when I applied the brakes immediately. The car sat for 24hrs, I then tried to start it up, it started up, but when I placed it into reverse, it did not move at all.
I was driving on the highway going 60 and my steering wheel locked up and an alert popped up on my dash saying 'driver assist fault. Repair required', it went away after about 30 minutes but it has happened once again since then and the first occurrence only happened yesterday. And as well to that my transmission which is a 6 speed is stiff and sticks a lot where I can't change gears immediately.
I literally just bought the car with the shuddering when coming off of a complete stop and was told it was my tires. I have gotten all new tires and it is the same problem not solved. Then my car started to have a bigger problem with the radio one day out of no where my speakers started to be staticky. The next day it was static and very loud popping noise almost making me get into an accident on the highway because it is so loud. I have to pull over every 10 minutes and shut the car off with most of the time the noise still going with the car off. Now I cannot see anything on my radio screen other than the date and time with a black screen. I have the radio and screen off and this loud popping / static noise is unsafe till this day. Due to the problem I cannot drive my car anymore. There has been many complaints online and in person about it but nothing is done.
When idling for so long the car just died. I opened the door and the alarm went haywire. Then I have to wait 20 to 30 minutes before I can restart the car. Nothing will work after it does this until it's able to be restarted. It's been at the Ford dealership. They replaced transmission issue, said that should fix it, but it still keeps on.
I was heading home pull into driveway and car just cut off and never start back up I wait for a hour car stayed back up headed out to auto zone and they put on a hand computer and it was coded with internal control module called fire gave them the VIN number and was told not a recall after a read the recalls from July 2019
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