2001 Ford Focus defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2001 Ford Focus. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Fleet Vehicle Recall Completion Audit
  Audit Query AQ10001 · opened Nov 18, 2010 · closed Dec 28, 2015

  On November 18, 2010, NHTSA's Recall Management Division (RMD) opened an audit query (AQ10-001) to investigate recall remedy completion by rental car companies on safety recall campaigns.It was expected to provide the agency an indication of how completely and how quickly rental car fleets perform necessary recall-rela…

• ENGINE STALLING
  Engineering Analysis EA02022 · opened Sep 9, 2002 · closed Jan 16, 2004 · led to recall 03V482000

  Clogging of the fuel delivery module (fdm) filters in the subject vehicles can lead to stalling and other related symptoms.these symptoms become increasingly obvious to the driver as the clogging gradually increases over extended periods of driving.stalling in these vehicles is most likely to occur when accelerating th…

• FRONT SUSP COLLAPSE/WHEEL SEPARATION
  Engineering Analysis EA02023 · opened Sep 9, 2002 · closed Feb 19, 2003

  SEE ATTACHED REPORT.

• BURN INJURIES DUE TO AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT
  Engineering Analysis EA02017 · opened Aug 16, 2002 · closed Aug 15, 2003

  All of the consumer complaints allege an incident in which deployment of the driver frontal air bag caused some type of burn injury.most of these injuries are due to contact and/or abrasion with the air bag and are of relatively minor to moderate severity.it is possible that some drivers may have sustained burn injurie…

• ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES
  Engineering Analysis EA02014 · opened Jul 31, 2002 · closed Nov 13, 2002 · led to recall 02V288000

  There is no summary currently available

• FRONT SUSPENSION LOWER CONTROL ARM
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02044 · opened May 1, 2002 · closed Sep 9, 2002

  There is no summary currently available

• ENGINE STALLING
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02040 · opened Apr 4, 2002 · closed Sep 9, 2002

  The primary concern of this pe is loss of engine power.stalling may occur at low speed or high speed.at the time of occurrence the average vehicle mileage is 30,000 miles.because these vehicles stall and/or hesitate unpredictably, an increased risk is inherent to these vehicles.if a driver expecting this vehicle to per…

• INAPPROPRIATE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02026 · opened Feb 28, 2002 · closed Sep 18, 2002

  There is no summary currently available

• AIR BAG BURN INJURIES/VEHICLE FIRES
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02020 · opened Feb 11, 2002 · closed Aug 16, 2002

  Information disclosed during this pe shows allegations of burn injuries resulting from abrasion and/or termal causes.allegations of chemical burns also exist.several incidents allege vehicles fires resulting from deployment of the air bags.this pe has been upgraded to an engineering analysis (ea) to facilitate a thorou…