NHTSA Complaint #11341052 — 2016 FORD FUSION HYBRID

ON MAY 28TH, 2020 I TOOK MY 2016 FORD FUSION HYBRID IN FOR SERVING AT 42,670 MILES, BECAUSE OF MY VEHICLES LOSS OF POWER STEERING, STEERING WHEEL STUTTER AND A WINNING SOUND WHILE IN MOTION ON CITY STREET. MULTIPLE STEERING NOTIFICATION WARNING LIGHTS CAME ON, INCLUDING POWER STEERING ASSIST FAULT, ADVANCE TRAC FAULT, LANE KEEPING MALFUNCTION, AND PRE-COLLISION ASSIST NOT AVAILABLE. MY VEHICLES LOSS OF POWER STEERING WHILE IN TRAFFIC CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO BECOME DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. ON MAY 29TH THE TECHNICIANS PERFORMED DIAGNOSTIC TEST, WHICH THEY TOLD ME INDICATED MY STEERING RACK ASSEMBLY NEEDED TO BE REPLACED AND A WHEEL ALIGNMENT WOULD ALSO NEED TO DONE A WELL. PARTS WERE ORDERED AND ON JUNE 4TH THE SERVICE WORK WAS DONE. MY TOTAL COST WAS $3102.39. ON JUNE 27TH, LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER HAVING MY CAR SERVICE AND PAYING OVER $3,100.00 FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF MY STEERING RACK ASSEMBLY AND 4 WHEEL ALIGNMENT, PLUS DYNASTIC TEST, THE SAME PROBLEMS REOCCURRED WHILE I WAS DRIVING, PLUS AT VARIOUS SPEEDS THE POWER STEERING SEIZED, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE RIGHT AND LEFT TURNS WHILE BRAKING GOING DOWN HILL AND ALL THE STEERING MALFUNCTION NOTIFICATIONS CAME ON AND STEERING AGAIN BECAME DIFFICULT. I TOOK MY CAR BACK IN FOR SERVICING AGAIN FOR THE SAME PROBLEM. THEY KEPT MY CAR FOR 2 DAYS AND SAID THEY HADN'T RESET THE STEERING TRACK ASSEMBLY COMPUTER, WHICH THEY DID THEY NOW HAD TO DO LINE, BY LINE, INSTEAD OF JUST SELECTING THE RESET. WHY WASN'T THE COMPUTER RESET IN THE FIRST PLACE? INSTEAD OF CHARGING ME $3100 FOR A BRAND NEW ASSEMBLY? PLUS THE WORK ORDER AFTER MY SECOND VISIT TO SERVICE SAID THEY DID NOT SEE THE PROBLEMS I MENTIONED. A WEEK LATER THE PROBLEMS AND ALERTS WENT OFF AGAIN WHILE IN MOTION. I WILL BE TAKING MY CAR BACK IN. I DO NOT FEEL SAFE DRIVING THIS CAR ANY MORE.