NHTSA Complaint #10947459 — 2012 FORD FOCUS

VEHICLE DISENGAGES AND LEAVES YOU STRANDED RIGHT WHERE YOU SET, NO MATTER IF THE GEAR SHIFT IS IN DRIVE, PARK, REVERSE, OR SPORT IT DISENGAGES WITHOUT WARNING. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME NUMEROUS TIMES. ONCE, PULLED INTO GAS STATION TO GET GAS AND PUT VEHICLE INTO PARK, GOT OUT, FILLED TANK THEN GOT BACK INTO CAR AND PUT INTO DRIVE AND, NOTHING. TRANSMISSION WOULD NOT ENGAGE. ANOTHER TIME, DRIVING ON INTERSTATE AND SAME THING, DISENGAGES THEN WOULD LUNGE THEN DISENGAGE COMPLETELY, STRANDED ON THE HIGHWAY. ANOTHER TIME, AND THIS HAS HAPPEN SO MUCH THAT NOW I TRY TO TIME MYSELF WHILE APPROACHING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AS TO PREPARE MYSELF AS IF IT WHERE GOING TO LOSE POWER EVERY TIME. THESE TIMES YOU WILL BE SETTING IN TRAFFIC AT A LIGHT OR JUST RUSH HOUR BUMPER TO BUMPER AND THE LIGHT CHANGES OR TRAFFIC STARTS TO MOVE AND WITHOUT WARNING TRANSMISSION, DISENGAGES. STRANDED, IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC. I AM SURPRISED WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT I SEE EVERYONE IS HAVING WITH THESE VEHICLES PERTAINING TO THE TRANSMISSIONS, SOMEONE HASN'T BEEN KILLED. THIS PROBLEM ISN'T A SECRET ANYMORE. JUST GOOGLE FORD FOCUS TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS! THE NHTSA NEEDS TO "(AS A FEDERAL AGENCY, NHTSA REGULATES THE SAFETY OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND RELATED EQUIPMENT)" DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE CONSUMER. CALL FORD MOTOR OUT ON THIS ISSUE AND MAKE THEM STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCT THAT ARE SELLING. GO TO HTTP://WLOS.COM/NEWS/NEWS-13-INVESTIGATES/FORD-SUED-OVER-FAULTY-TRANSMISSIONS-IN-SOME-FOCUS-FEISTAS THIS PRETTY MUCH EXPLAINS IT. THIS IS WHY FORD STOPPED USING THIS TRANSMISSION IN END OF 2015. THERE IS NO FIXING IT! IT IS A DEFECTIVE DESIGN ISSUE AND THEY KNOW IT. AND AS FAR AS THE WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN BOX AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE, THESE AREN'T ISOLATED INCIDENTS, THIS HAPPENS OFTEN AND TO MOST PEOPLE WHO OWN THESE CARS MANUFACTURED WITH THIS TRANSMISSION BETWEEN 2011-2015. *TR