2016 Ford Focus
This year drew 2,324 complaints against a median of 441 across the Ford Focus's other years, 5.3× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 10 recalls, listed below.
Generation 3 of the Ford Focus, which began in 2012. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 2,324 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 441 |
| Involving a crash | 53 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 30.5 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 18V735000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
- 18V845000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 17V052000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V169000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 16V698000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 23V905000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 26V011000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 26V012000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Focus was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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