NHTSA Complaint #10355650 — 2004 FORD FOCUS

PARKED CAR AS ALWAYS. CAME OUT TO START CAR TO LEAVE AND KEY WILL NOT TURN IN IGNITION. HAD TO HAVE IT TOWED. THE TOW TRUCK DRIVER SAID THEY TOW FORD FOCUS MODELS WITH BAD IGNITIONS QUITE OFTEN. A WOMAN IN A FOCUS WAGON PULLED UP IN THE LOT WHERE I WAS STRANDED BEFORE THE TOW TRUCK ARRIVED. I ASKED HER TO NOT PARK THERE SINCE A TOW TRUCK WAS COMING; I ALSO TOLD HER WHY. SHE SAID SHE HAD SEVERAL TIMES WHERE HER KEY WOULD GET STUCK IN HER FOCUS. MINE HAD DONE THAT A FEW TIMES OVER THE PAST 3 MONTHS, IT APPEARS BASED ON THE INTERNET SEARCHES, AND JUST MY CONVERSATIONS IN ONE DAY THAT THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE. MINE IS A 2004 MODEL FOCUS. SO IT GOES BEYOND THE THINKING THAT IT IS ONLY 2000 TO 2003 MODELS. THIS PAST WEEKEND I COULD HAVE BEEN STRANDED IN THE HENRY M. JACKSON WILDERNESS AREA IN WA. STATE, POSSIBLY WITH NO CELL PHONE SERVICE AVAILABLE EITHER. LUCKILY THIS PROBLEM HAPPENED WHEN I WAS IN CIVILIZATION. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE THIS PAST WEEKEND, IN BLACK BEAR & GRIZZLY BEAR COUNTRY. *TR