Engine is stalling out while the consumer is driving vehicle. This will happen at any speed, but it is an intermittent problem. Contacted dealer.
2000 Ford Focus engine complaints
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While on the highway enegine cut off and my car pulled to the right , which caused car to spin out of control and smack into wall of medium.
Gas mileage is poor on this size veh--motor kicks into neutral while driving at higher speeds. Dealer keeps telling me there is no problem/cannot duplicate, 4 incidents, this is very freighting. Especially in heavy traffic & cannot get off the road fast. Brakes wear between 16000 and 18000 miles with normal driving. The motor belt had to be replaced at 22000 miles. This never happened so soon with any vehicle I have ever owned. Repairs and services are very expensive, many safety recalls and product warnings that take time to repair. The dealer has a problem making sure the parts are available when I make an appointment. The wheel bearings have been replaced several times and sound like they may be going bad again! I do not feel safe in this vehicle. What if something fails while myself or my family are in this vehicle. This vehicle has depreciated at such a drastic rate, that I would be wise to trade it for another vehicle. I feel it is in direct relation to all the safety issues with this vehicle. *ph **dimsii ivoq entry posted after 12/12/02 cut over to artemis**763169
Vehicle stalled out, and consumer left it where it was. Then, he went back 3 hours later only to find that vehicle had burned up. He was told by the fire department that there was a vehicle fire.
While driving at 65 MPH vehicle suddenly died. Consumer feels lucky that vehicle was not rear ended. *ak the dashboard lit up and the engine shut off. Consumer was driving approximately 65-70 miles per hour and was unable to steer to the shoulder. After approx. 20 min the engine started. Dealer was unable to find anything wrong with vehicle.
Vehicle will stall out without warning.
While driving, without warning vehicle will stall, then shut off. Dealer has been notified. However, has not found the remedy to service vehicle.*ak
Engine stalls at any speed. Consumer feels it's unsafe because it can happen on freeway without warning. Dealer has replaced oxygen sensor, but problem reoccurred. *ak jg
At any speed vehicle will shut off with out any notice. Contacted dealer, and was not willing to do anything.*ak
Vehicle will overheat and will not get enough power while driving. Cause unknown. Dealer notified.
Pe 02 044/engine stalling: on several occasions vehicle cut off while driving at multiple speed. Vehicle been to dealer on four occasions, and dealer was unable to duplicate the problem. Feel free to provide any further informnation.
Engine light will illuminate. Then, vehicle overheats and shutsdown. Please provide any further informaiton.
Engine stalled three times so far during downshift, the first time was two years ago and last time was last week. It all happened when I'm slowing down and approching exit on the highway, I disengaged clutch try to downshift and the engine stalled, had to turn the key to start and engine again.
Pe 02 040/engine stalling, after driving vehicle for a while, it started to hesitate, and lacked in acceleration when applied. Vehicle been to the dealer on two occasions, and was unable to duplicate the problem. Feel free to provide any further infromation.
Vehicle has stalled a few times while driving down hill or in turns at slow speed. Vehicle is at dealership at this time.
While driving at low speed and without warning vehicle stalled. Then, shutoff in the middle of traffic. Dealer has been notified mechanic stated engine stalling was under investigation.
Vehicle has been hesitating when coming to a stop, almost stalling. On 8 june 2002 vehicle stalled while coming to a stop. Dealer cannot find a cause.
Vehicle stalled twice when slowing down to stop, dealer has cleaned airbox. Numerous times and vehicle will still hesitate, almost stalling.
Vehicle was going 45mph on a bridge and stalled as vehicle was shifting to 4th gear. Steering locked and brakes failed while motor shutdown. Air conditioner and radio continued to work. Vehicle restarted, but the engine check light came on, and vehicle stalled again. Crankshaft was replaced by ford dealer. *ak
Car started stalling before it ran out of warranty. Dealer replaced fuel pump that was all they could figure out. That lasted as long as the warranty did. I personaly replaced the fuel tank and fuel pump and fuel filters each time. The car has continued to stall sense under warranty. The dealer can't figure out the problem ,they said that they have nothing but problem with the ford focus. I've contacted ford corp. And you get no help from them. The car has stalled on several occasion as long as the car sit for a long period of time it will start and run for awhile then it will do it again. I cannot afford to take it the dealer each time to tell me nothing is wrong with it. This problem could end in an accident and possible injury. I hope this doesn't take a class action suit against ford to get this problem corrected.
Driving along the freeway and the engine stalled. Was able to refire the motor and continue car conti nued to run rough.
This stalling while driving problem has occurred on two occasions, both times at low speed. Once while making a right 90deg turn and once while slowly rolling to a stop at an intersection. The seconed time the car was hard to restart.
Approx, 1 month ago the engine stalled out while driving on the highway. 6/6/02 the engine stalled out on highway offramp. 6/7/02 car stalled out while going approx 35mph on a city street. This sounds alarmingly like the "focus" of one of the two new investigations being opened. I am going to try to get my dealer to let me out of my lease. Thanks.
The engine stalls while driving as if it is going to shut down. The signal lights will not stop blinking when making left or right turns. This was repaired by east ford in feb 2001 and this problem is back again. I feel that these are more defects in the focus.
Engine stalled when making a clockwise hairpin turn (freeway transition) with approx. 1/4 tank of gas.
Six weeks previously, engine stalled on freeway. Dealer said couldn't find a problem and let them know if it happened again. 5/31/02 could not get car to go; had towed to dealer. After several days they finally thought it was the air intake valve causing the problem. Today I hear about the focus stalling problem possibly being caused by debris in gas tank. I am afraid to drive this car for fear it will stall again on the freeway. I was lucky the last time that I was able to coast to the shoulder and did not get into a crash. I was able to re-start the car and get it off the freeway. Other continuing problems that I have had the dealer fix over 3 times each: squeaking brakes and molding around the doors falling off.
While driving, vehicle will jerk, on one occasion it would not go more than 35mph and then it stalled, vehicle has also stalled at highway speeds. This has happened numerous times. Contacted dealer who cannot fix the problem.*ak
Vehicle died. Piston rings stick in valve and the shuts down. Consumer has five recalls on her car. Also, she had to replace head gasket. *ak consumer states that the transmission and air conditioner leaked, an o-ring was replaced in the air conditioner, however it still does not work.
Vehicle stalls intermittently, mostly around 35 MPH. Dealer cannot remedy problem.
Engine stalled at 30 to 35 MPH. Vehicle was towed to a mechanic, and mechanic stated that battery was defective. Dealer replaced battery. Consumer stated that problem still occuring.
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