NHTSA Complaint #10782111 — 2012 FORD FOCUS

EVER SINCE I HAVE OWNED THIS CAR SINCE MAY 2012 IT HAS SHUDDERED WHEN DRIVING, STALLED WHILE DRIVING, AND SHAKES AND DOES NOT INCREASE SPEED WHEN THE ACCELERATOR IS STEPPED ON. THE CAR NOW DOES NOT EVEN START WHEN IT IS TURNED ON, DESPITE THE BATTERY BEING GOOD. CAR WAS TOWED INTO DEALERSHIP SEVERAL TIMES AND THEY SUPPOSEDLY FIXED IT. DID SEVERAL REPAIRS TO IT BUT TO THIS DATE IT STILL SHUDDERS AND STALLS WHILE DRIVING. THE LATEST REPAIR THEY DID WAS TO FIX THE ALTERNATOR...WE WILL SEE....HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THIS MODEL HAS SEVERAL DEFECTS AND WOULD TERM IT AS A LEMON. IT BARELY HAS 60,000 MILES ON IT AND A CAR THIS NEW SHOULD NOT BE HAVING THESE ISSUES AS THEY ARE SAFETY ISSUES AND I FEAR FOR ME AND MY CHILDRENS LIVES AND SAFETY AS THIS CAR DOES NOT FUNCTION SAFELY AND STALLS WHEN WE ARE DRIVING! WHEN I EXPRESSED MY CONCERNS TO FORD OVER THESE ISSUES THEY TOOK NO ACTION EXCEPT TO TAPE RECORD MY COMPLAINTS...THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THESE SAFEY ISSUES....THE CAR HAS BEEN IN THE DEALERSHIP SERVICE CENTER FOUR TIMES IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS....THE LAST REPAIR BILL COST ME $650....BUT I HAVE NO FAITH THAT THEY (FORD) HAVE FIXED THE PROBLEMS.....I AM FEARFUL TO DRIVE THIS CAR BUT I AM A SINGLE MOTHER AND CANNOT AFFORD TO TRADE THE CAR IN FOR ANOTHER AS THE FORD SALES PERSON TOLD ME NO BANK WOULD LOAN ME MONEY ON ANOTHER CAR AS I OWED TOO MUCH ON THIS LEMON THAT FORD HAS SOLD ME....FORD WAS OF NO HELP AND DOES NOT CARE....I TOLD THEM THAT IT WOULD TAKE SOMEONE DYING IN A CAR CRASH FROM THESE DEFECTS IN ORDER FOR FORD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE ISSUES.....THESE ISSUES HAPPEN WHILE THE CAR IS IN MOTION AND WHEN IT IS SITTING STILL...THE CAR WILL NOT START AND HAS TO BE TOWED INTO THE REPAIR SHOP...