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2013 Ford Focus

Complaints about this year name door far more often than the other years of this generation — 7% of them, about 5× the usual rate of 1.4%.

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.

What owners wrote

PASSENGER DOOR LATCH BROKE DOOR FLEW OPEN WHILE DRIVING IN PARKING LOT. NOW IT WILL NOT CLOSE.

WHILE DRIVING AND MAKING A LEFT TURN THE DRIVERS DOOR OPENED. MY SON TRIED TO RE-SHUT THE DOOR AND IT WOULD NOT SECURE.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 18V735000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
• 19V515000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
• 16V643000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
• 16V698000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
• 15V813000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 14V495000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 13V335000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
• 12E035000 EQUIPMENT

Showing 8 of 12. The rest are on NHTSA's site.

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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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