2015 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #2029525
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:CLUTCHES/BANDS filed October 3, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2029525 (ODI reference 11617811) concerns a 2015 FORD FOCUS and was filed on October 3, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 2019. The vehicle had 10,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois 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 2015 FORD FOCUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Ford Focus. The contact stated that on three occasions while driving at various speeds, the vehicle began vibrating with a grinding sound coming from the front end of the vehicle while shifting gear. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed and determined that an unknown part needed to be replaced. The vehicle was then taken to the same dealer where it was diagnosed that the clutch needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The vehicle was taken to the residence. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2029525 |
| ODI Number | 11617811 |
| Date Filed | October 3, 2024 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FADP3K23FL |
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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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