CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2016 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.
I went to lock my car with the keyless remote and it would not lock until I pressed the "lock" button 3-4 times. The same thing happened when I tried to unlock my car. I tried using a spare remote, but the problem persisted. I replaced the battery in one of the remotes, but that did not fix the problem. While I was researching a solution to the problem, I started to use the emergency key that is provided (inside the keyless remote) to unlock/lock the car, as a quick-fix. Unfortunately, I found out that if the emergency key is used to unlock the car, the car alarm will go off if you don't turn on the car within 5 seconds. After about a week the lock button on the keyless remote stopped working completely, and I had to use the lock button on the inside door panel, to lock the doors.
A secondary issue happened at this time which was that the car would not recognize the keyless remote even if it was in the car. I would need to put the remote in the designated area (inside the arm rest compartment) so that the car would recognize the key and allow me to start the car.
I gave up my troubleshooting/researching after about 2 weeks, and now have the car in the dealership. Hopefully they can find a solution, but seeing that it has been there for the past 4 days, and the updates by the dealership have been inconclusive, I'm getting worried.
If anybody else has had a similar problem feel free to comment on this.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I went to lock my car with the keyless remote and it would not lock until I pressed the "lock" button 3-4 times. The same thing happened when I tried to unlock my car. I tried using a spare remote, but the problem persisted. I replaced the battery in one of the remotes, but that did not fix the problem. While I was researching a solution to the problem, I started to use the emergency key that is provided (inside the keyless remote) to unlock/lock the car, as a quick-fix. Unfortunately, I found out that if the emergency key is used to unlock the car, the car alarm will go off if you don't turn on the car within 5 seconds. After about a week the lock button on the keyless remote stopped working completely, and I had to use the lock button on the inside door panel, to lock the doors.
A secondary issue happened at this time which was that the car would not recognize the keyless remote even if it was in the car. I would need to put the remote in the designated area (inside the arm rest compartment) so that the car would recognize the key and allow me to start the car.
I gave up my troubleshooting/researching after about 2 weeks, and now have the car in the dealership. Hopefully they can find a solution, but seeing that it has been there for the past 4 days, and the updates by the dealership have been inconclusive, I'm getting worried.
If anybody else has had a similar problem feel free to comment on this.
- eurofootball93, Rutherford, US