2016 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #1782426
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:HOOD:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS filed December 9, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1782426 (ODI reference 11443216) concerns a 2016 FORD FOCUS and was filed on December 9, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 7, 2021. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:hood:hinge and attachments, 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 structure:body:hood:hinge and attachments 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 2016 FORD FOCUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contactâs girlfriendâs daughter owns a 2016 Ford Focus. The contact stated while his girlfriendâs daughter was driving 65 MPH, she either drove over a pothole or a rock on the roadway and the vehicle started jerking. The driver veered to the side of the roadway to inspect the vehicle and noticed damage to the front driverâs side bumper that was detached from the subframe. The contact stated that the hood release hinges on the driverâs and passengerâs side of the vehicle fractured causing the hood to inadvertently, smashing into the windshield shattering the windshield. The driver called the contact to the scene for assistance. The contact was able to secure the hood with bungee cords for the driver to drive the vehicle to the residence. The following day the vehicle was towed to a body shop to be inspected. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1782426 |
| ODI Number | 11443216 |
| Date Filed | December 9, 2021 |
| Failure Date | December 7, 2021 |
| VIN | 1FADP3F21GL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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