2016 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #1965162
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:CLUTCHES/BANDS filed February 6, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1965162 (ODI reference 11570370) concerns a 2016 FORD FOCUS and was filed on February 6, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 2, 2024. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:internal:clutches/bands, 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:automatic transmission:internal:clutches/bands 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 at an undisclosed speed, the transmission was slipping. Additionally, the vehicle was consuming an excessive amount of transmission fluid. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed with a failed clutch kit. The contact was informed that the clutch kit needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1965162 |
| ODI Number | 11570370 |
| Date Filed | February 6, 2024 |
| Failure Date | January 2, 2024 |
| VIN | 1FADP3J21GL |
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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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