NHTSA Complaint #10560493 — 2012 FORD FOCUS

REPAIR DRIVERS SIDE SEAT WILL NOT ADJUST FORWARD OR BACKWARDS. REPLACED TRACK ASSEMBLY. FOR ABNORMAL ACCESS TO TRACK AIR DUCT CAME LOOSE AND LOCKED UP AND BROKE TRACK ASSEMBLY. SECOND ISSUE STARTED AT LOWER MILEAGE BUT CONTINUED DRIVING AND GOT WORSE AND AT 35500 MILES TOOK FOCUS TO DEALERSHIP WITH TRANSMISSION SHUTTERING JERKING AND MAKING NOISES. THEY REPROGRAMMED THE COMPUTER. BEFORE REPROGRAMMING I WAS GETTING 34.2 MILES TO THE GALLON AFTERWARDS GETTING WORSE NOISES JERKS AND MILEAGE DOWN TO 28.6. TOLD ME THEN AT THE TIME OF REPROGRAMMING THAT THEY WOULD ORDER THE CLUTCH TO BE REPLACED BUT IT WOULD TAKE TWO MONTHS TO GET THE PARTS AND IT WAS OK TO DRIVE TILL THEN. I DRIVE 64 MINIMUM HIGHWAY MILES EVERY WORK WEEK. SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY AND BEING STRANDED ON THE SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE, MY WIFE DRIVES THIS CAR. THIS WAS DECEMBER 2013, REPROGRAMMING. *TR