2014 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #1558033
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558033 (ODI reference 11196441) concerns a 2014 FORD FOCUS and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 2016. The vehicle had 14,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same FORD FOCUS cohort independently describe similar power train failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2014 FORD FOCUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 FORD FOCUS. WHILE OPERATING THE VEHICLE IN LOWER GEARS, IT SUDDENLY BEGAN TO SHAKE AND VIBRATE. THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE WAS NOT DETERMINED. CORWIN FORD OF SPRINGFIELD (3241 S. GLENSTONE AVE, SPRINGFIELD, MO) AND THE MANUFACTURER WERE NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE, BUT NO ASSISTANCE WAS OFFERED. THE CONTACT INDICATED THAT THE POWER TRAIN WAS PREVIOUSLY REPAIRED IN 2016 AND THE CLUTCH AND CONTROL MODULE WERE REPLACED; HOWEVER, THE FAILURES CONTINUED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 14,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558033 |
| ODI Number | 11196441 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 2016 |
| VIN | 1FADP3F21EL |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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