2016 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #1801704
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP:CONTROL/DRIVE MODULE filed March 15, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1801704 (ODI reference 11456865) concerns a 2016 FORD FOCUS and was filed on March 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 28, 2020. The vehicle had 40,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:delivery:fuel pump:control/drive module, 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 fuel system, gasoline:delivery:fuel pump:control/drive module 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 contact owns a 2016 Ford Focus. The contact stated while driving 75 MPH, the vehicle lost power motive power and stalled. The contact restarted the vehicle and drove to the dealer. The vehicle was diagnosed and the contact was informed that the fuel system software needed to be updated. The vehicle was repaired however, the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified and the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 40,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1801704 |
| ODI Number | 11456865 |
| Date Filed | March 15, 2022 |
| Failure Date | January 28, 2020 |
| VIN | 1FADP3K20GL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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