2013 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #1558466
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558466 (ODI reference 11196750) concerns a 2013 FORD FOCUS and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 8, 2019. The vehicle had 61,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering, 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 steering 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 2013 FORD FOCUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 FORD FOCUS. WHILE THE CONTACT'S DAUGHTER WAS DRIVING 45 MPH, THE STEERING WHEEL SEIZED WITHOUT WARNING. THE DRIVER MANAGED TO STEER THE VEHICLE HOME. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 61,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558466 |
| ODI Number | 11196750 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 8, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FADP3K24DL |
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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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