2012 FORD FOCUS — Complaint #2075219
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:EVAPORATIVE EMISSIONS:CANISTER filed March 19, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2075219 (ODI reference 11649218) concerns a 2012 FORD FOCUS and was filed on March 19, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 19, 2024. The vehicle had 70,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Hampshire based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:evaporative emissions:canister, 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:storage:evaporative emissions:canister 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 2012 FORD FOCUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2012 Ford Focus. The contact stated the vehicle failed to start. No warning light was illuminated. The contact called AAA, who jump-started the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed the vehicle and determined that the purge valve had failed. The contact stated that the vehicle was repaired. The contact stated that on a separate occasion, while driving 10 MPH up a hill and attempting to accelerate, the vehicle briefly lost motive power and jerked before slamming into first gear. Several unknown warning lights were illuminated. The contact stated that the vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the transmission control module had failed. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the failure reoccurred. The contact received a postcard from the manufacturer for a manufacturer's recall for the canister purge valve (24N07). The manufacturer was not informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approxi
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2075219 |
| ODI Number | 11649218 |
| Date Filed | March 19, 2025 |
| Failure Date | September 19, 2024 |
| VIN | 1FAHP3F26CL |
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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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